Postpartum depression is a serious problem among women. Once thought of as a relatively minor phase within the postpartum cycle, it is now known that it can seriously impair the individual woman's ability to function under the stress of new parenthood and can seriously erode the family, at...

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a disease that has become well known in the past seven years. There has been a great deal of media coverage about this disorder in cases such as the Andrea Yates murder trial in Texas. Yates, a mother of five, murdered her children (ranging in ages from six months to s...

Abortion is a personal choice; however, it has psychological as well as physical effects on the mother. Abortion has an impact on everyone. Although it effects women the most, it is also seen in fathers, grandparents and children. Even medical personnel involved in the abortion industry have reporte...

We live in a sexually oriented society here in the United States. Ever since the sexual revolution of the 1960's, sex has become more accepted and sex or sexual images in the mass media has become more widespread. Magazines, television, and the internet display this quite well by constantly p...

Introduction Touch has long been researched but we yet need to know more about it since its effects are of such magnitude. Touch is the most essential communication channel for babies because they sense, understand and experience it more than any other stimulation. Babies need to be touched becau...

There are many effective analgesic techniques available for women in labor and delivery. But the specific analgesic technique selected depends on the patients' medical status, the progress of labor, and facility resources as well as patients' preference. Of course, it is best if all pain managem...