Online Medical Notes That Refer to the Unborn BABY

I came across @JessicaSideways' tweet:

Is she correct?

Let's see if I can find medical school class notes & material online that use the word BABY or UNBORN BABY [s. or pl.]:

Human Reproduction and Development

"Week 9 - Week 40: (Fetus):

After 12 weeks or so, the baby's development is largely "finished" - except brain and lung development"

"A great website: Teratogens: Protecting your Unborn Baby

• The early processes of development all need to occur at a precise time and place - that is why poor maternal nutrition, fever, drugs, alcohol, (particularly in the 1st trimester) all have potentially serious effects of the developing baby."

http://www.biology.iupui.edu/biocourses/n100/2k4ch39repronotes.html

Prenatal Development and Its Influence on Children's Development

"Examine prenatal attachment from the historical perspective to the current understanding of the unborn baby’s prenatal life"

"Identify a relationship-based model of prenatal education and specific interventions to support parents’ awareness of the emotional needs of their unborn baby from pregnancy into the first three months of life"

"I have come to have a fuller understanding of prenatal development and the relationship between the parents and their unborn baby. "

http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ceed/profdev/onlinecourses/prenatal.htm

Genes . . . The Nature of Human Development

"...alphafetoprotein (AFP), a substance produced by the baby and passed into the mother’s blood and the amniotic fluid."

"

The baby can be transfused in utero or immediately at birth."

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/7/82.07.04.x.html

Fetus to Newborn: The Perinatal Period

Both nicotine and carbon monoxide can reduce the size of the baby of a smoking mother. The immature liver of the fetus is unable to clear these drugs very fast and the effects may be profoundly damaging in the developing baby.

The baby stores reserves of glycogen in its liver and muscles preparatory to birth. After it is born it rests and lives on these reserves (and an occasional bottle of sugar water) until the mother�s colostrum and then the milk come in a few days later.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/7/82.07.08.x.html

Before the Beginning

"A formidable force is changing the way prenatal diseases and birth defects are viewed by pioneering ways to help babies before they are born."

"One of the few perinatologists in the country to offer surgical interventions for a baby in utero..."

http://www.usc.edu/hsc/info/pr/hmm/07winter/begin.html

Fetal Development [PowerPoint]

"38 weeks: the baby may be more than 20 inches;

the baby is full term and ready to be born."

http://cte.rockhurst.edu/s/945/images/editor_documents/content/John%20F.%20Morris,%20Ph.D.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Associate%20Professor%20of%20Philoso/ME17-Fetal%20Development.pdf

CDE 232 - Introduction to Human Development

"Stopping smoking can help the baby, even in the third trimester."

http://www.public.asu.edu/~wcree/cde232/aug__30_lecture_notes.htm

Biological Effects of Radiation

"There are many chemical agents (such as thalidomide) and many biological agents (such as the viruses which cause German measles) that can also produce malformations while the baby is still in the embryonic or fetal stage of development."

http://www.bluefieldstate.edu/Schools/nursradt/Fall2009/RADT225/BiologicalEffectsofRadiation.pdf

Prenatal Effects of Radiation

"...it is important that you have a basic understanding of potential biological effects to an unborn baby associated with prenatal radiation exposure."

"Unborn babies are less sensitive to radiation during some stages of pregnancy than others. Unborn babies are particularly sensitive to radiation during their early development, between weeks 2 and 15 of pregnancy. However, since the baby is shielded by the mother's abdomen, the radiation dose to the unborn baby is lower than the dose to the mother for most radiation exposure events."

"Unborn babies are especially sensitive to the cancer-causing effects of radiation. However, the increased risks depend on the amount of radiation to which the baby was exposed and the amount of time that it was exposed."

http://ehs.umc.edu/documents/RadiationExposureandPregnancy.pdf

Ultrasonography

This is a non-invasive procedure that is harmless to both the fetus and the mother. High frequency sound waves are utilized to produce visible images from the pattern of the echos made by different tissues and organs, including the baby in the amniotic cavity.
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/PRENATAL/PRENATAL.html

Parvovirus B19 and pregnancy?

"Usually there is no serious complication for a pregnant woman or her baby following exposure...

Likewise, her unborn baby usually does not have any problems attributable to parvovirus B19 infection.

Sometimes, however, parvovirus B19 infection will cause the unborn baby to have severe anemia and the woman will have a miscarriage.

Other physicians may increase the frequency of doctor visits and perform blood tests and ultra-sound examinations to monitor the health of the unborn baby."

http://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/Defect/parvovirus.htm

After Abortion: Linda's Letter

Dear friend,

I was seventeen when I had my first abortion. I was a perfect candidate: too young, hadn't finished high school yet, no money, no skills, father of the baby didn't want to marry me, and adoption was too painful to think about.

Later in Nursing School, when I saw pictures of foetal development, I was shocked. That blob of tissue had feet, hands and a heartbeat.

I had become very interested in women's health care and reproductive rights, fighting for women's right to abortion, but what I was saying conflicted with what I was feeling.

Some of the things were:

• If abortion is so right, why am I feeling guilty and seeking help from psychiatrists and feminist therapists?
• If abortion is so right, why am I so hostile towards the father of the baby... an anger that turned into a hatred for all men?
• If abortion is so right, why am I feeling exploited and so abused?
• If abortion is so right, why am I needing increased amounts of alcohol and drugs to numb the pain?
• If abortion is so right, why am I feeling so guilty around infertile couples who agonise over the wait for a baby by adoption?
• If abortion is so right, why am I so depressed that I think of suicide as a way out?
• If abortion isn't killing, then why, when I found a counsellor who allowed me to grieve therapeutically, did I symbolically need to take the torn, broken pieces of my baby's body from the garbage can in New York, sew him back together, name him and hold and rock and cry for what I did to him?
• If abortion isn't the death of a baby, why am I grieving?

In Weba (Women Exploited by Abortion) I finally found women who didn't tell me I had "made the best decision at the time." They understood my struggle with denial and allowed me to express my feelings by saying, "I can't believe I killed my babies."

For women who say that they don't regret killing their babies, I say, "Wait." It took me five years to break through the stage of denial.

If there is grief, there was death.

If there was death, there was life.

Linda

From: http://www.truthtv.org/abortion/women/womens-letters/linda/