Shanae's Blog

     While reading about public health topics, the topic that I found extremely interesting is mother's and children's access to clean and healthy drinking water. According to the Centers for Disease control and prevention water is essential to our bodies for a multitude of reasons. Water has various uses and is a necessity because it maintains and regulates temperature, makes sure your joints are lubricated, protects tissues throughout the body, including the spinal cord and aids the body in waste removal through processes of urination, perspiration, and bowel movements.      Our body is made up to about 65% of water, so it is vital to survival of the human race. With that being said , it is so unfortunate tat many areas throughout the world have limited access to clean and healthy water. Some countries can go up to 48 hours without access to clean water. While researching this topic, I came across information related to several countries in sub-Saharan A...

     I choose to describe the birth of my daughter who is five years old as a birthing experience that I vividly remember. I remember waking up at about 2am or 3am with bad contractions. I was both nervous and excited. Several of my family members came to the hospital with me; and  I was in labor for a full day, about 20 hours. I walked around the hospital for about 3 hours, however I was only dilated 1 cm. The doctors then told me that I would need to be induced because the baby was already 10 days overdue! The whole day was a blur  after that because the pain was so intense, that I was was on heavy pain medication. After a while my midwives came to me and said that I need to have a cesarean because the baby needed to come out. I then remember going into a white room with my daughter's father, and feeling numb from the neck down. Then after a few moments my beautiful baby girl was out and crying. I guess that I was so exhausted I then went to sleep and woke up ...