Category Archives: Motherhood

The Birth Injury Guide for Parents

Childbirth is supposed to be a joyful event for the family. A would-be mom does everything she can to take care of her unborn child. But, what if an unforeseen incident happened to her precious baby before or during childbirth? Childbirth defects or injury is a trauma no parents would want to experience. 

Fortunately, there is a comprehensive birth injury guide for families coping with birth injuries and defects. 

The Birth Injury Guide website, staffed by an advocacy group, works with professional writers and researchers, health care providers, lawyers, and other birth injury experts to provide the most comprehensive birth injury information source available.

The website is easy to navigate. You can search the types of birth injuries, symptoms and causes, the distinction between natural defect and birth injury, and if the child with birth injury will get better. All these questions are answered and explained on the Frequently Asked Question page.  

The Birth Injury Guide estimates that around 28,000 babies in the United States are born each year with a birth injury. Unfortunately, many of these injuries are the result of negligence by health care providers. 

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash

The usual birth injuries include umbilical cord prolapse, birth trauma, C-section injuries, drug-related negligence, and epidural birth injuries. The website listed the treatment for a specific condition.

When the parents intend to pursue a case against a medical provider for allegedly inflicting the birth injury to their child, the Birth Injury Guide will provide legal assistance to help them get the justice they deserve.

The website clarifies that they are not trying to replace the information provided by medical and legal experts. They hope to provide readers with accurate information about birth injury. 

If you are a parent coping with a child with a birth injury, the Birth Injury Guide will lead you to support groups to help you deal with the situation. The support groups will direct you to a network of families who have experienced a similar event. 

Check on their website to know more about their advocacy. If you need assistance for a free case review, you can fill out a form or call toll-free at 877-415-6603.

50 Mums | 50 Kids | 1 Extra Chromosome

I was moved to tears when I saw this video of moms teaching their kids to express their feelings through hand gestures accompanied by a love song…

I’m sharing the video from the original source on YouTube. Credit to the person who created the video.

The mums in this video and the dad who created it ( https://twitter.com/5ushi ) met online and got together to show the world just how ordinary and fun life with the condition is and how they “Wouldn’t Change a Thing”.

It features a carpool karaoke lip sync in support of World Down Syndrome Day 2018 and features 50 mums and their children singing along to Christina Perri’s multi-platinum selling track, “A Thousand Years”. — Wouldn’t Change a Thing

Moms’ Guide To Motorcycle Safety

If you are a mother of a teenager boy, I can understand your fears and worries for your son’s safety. We all know that it is normal for teenage boys wanting to grow to be like real men and not be restricted by age limit. Teenagers are known to secretly taking their cigarette puffs, drinking alcohol, learning and riding their friend’s motorcycle without their parents’ knowledge because they think it is one of the coolest thing to do. Learning to ride a motorcycle in itself is not that dangerous. It is dangerous when they are doing it without a license and without being equipped with motorcycle safety apparel.

Some mothers will come up with all kinds of stories to dampen their teenager’s interest in motorcycling. But those who know their teenager well, know that the more they try to dissuade their teenager from motorcycle, the more they will want to do it. Smart mothers will instead guide their teenager to motorcycle safety.

Boys will be boys, and most of them are attracted to motorcycles. Some will lose this interest as they grow older but some will continue to be interested in these 2-wheelers machines. When your teenager shows interest in motorcycles, they will want to learn everything they can about motorcycles and motorcycling. And this is the best time to introduce motorcycle safety guides to them. They will learn from an early age, and be aware of the risk of injury and death in motorcycling.

Concerned mothers can introduce motorcycle safety guides or explain to their teenagers about the importance of motorcycle riding equipment and that it is for their safety. One of the top most important motorcycle riding equipment is the motorcycle safety helmet. Researchers have found that compulsory helmet laws is the most effective way to reduce the numbers of death, and the permanent brain injuries that resulted from motorcycle crashes.