Childhood stressor

One of the stressors I have experienced during my childhood was CHAOS.  My mother and father had five of us together and my mother and father was married but my father was never around. Before my father left home and abandoned us,my siblings and I witness my father and mother physically fighting one another all the time. My mother and father argued and physically fought. My father slept around with other women all through the times they were dating and after marriage. My mother and father were separated but still married and my mother begin dating other men and was murdered by one of her boyfriends while she was pregnant. My siblings were inside in out of court rooms, counseling sessions and finally split up to be with different family members. So yes there was tons of Chaos and I have not even mentioned half of it.

I learned to cope the hard way because counseling did not work for me and I shut down and my thoughts eventually took over me. I attempted suicide and my thoughts were swamped with it. I change my attitude and I believe it was one of the hardest things I had to do. I had to change my thought process and I started writing in a journal.

I would like to know more about Haiti. I think there is so much stress in the young children in this area because they suffer from lack of education, hunger, and grief daily. These young children are usually on their own and their parents aren't around either. The lack of love and support from parents will mentally cause so many problems to these young children. Kids in Chaotic dysfunctional homes also lack medical care and proper nutrition. This can become a huge issues leading up to everything else that a young child needs. Mental health care systems are being brought to thought to be built in Haiti, in the mean time little to no clinics are doing with they can.

http://www.cleveland.com/parents/index.ssf/2012/01/when_toxic_stress_in_children.html

http://www.psysr.org/blog/2010/09/30/mental-health-in-haiti/

Public health topic

I was always curious and still am curious about breastfeeding. I work in child care and I hear plenty of stories about the joys of breast feeding and it wanted to make me breastfeed when I have my children. In the article I read it mentions that babies that were breastfed had better health profiles. People that were breast fed has better teeth, bones, eye health, lower obesity rates, cancer and heart disease.

Before all of this research and working with children I did not want to breastfeed because of the breast dripping milk all the time, having to pump, infants not latching, breasts feeling heavy and just the feeling of it. I learned that women's bodies go through so much for the health of others and them self's. I learned that after birth breastfeeding helps contracts the uterus, helps burns calories and releases hormones.

In Australia babies are breastfed at birth but by five months they are already eating solids. Normally babies are fed up till six months and it is recommended.

American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement on breastfeeding and the use of human milk, Pediatrics, December 1997: 100(6): 1035-39.

http://www.incultureparent.com/2012/03/breastfeeding-around-the-world/#slide10

Birth Experience!!!

Birth Experience!!!
I really do not have any memory because my mom died when I was young, I do not have any children and I have never seen a child born besides videos. The only thing I can remember is the iron burn mark on my arm from when I was 3 months old. My twin sister kicked me off the couch and i rolled into a hot iron and till this day I am 23 years old and still have it.

I just watched a documentary on Babies around the world. Africa seemed most interesting to me because the women there do not go to hospitals and have natural births in the homes or tents. Another thing I found interesting is that they bathe the babies in this clay made substance and the babies do not wear diapers and have BM's just anywhere. I seen a baby have a BM on the mother and she wipes it off her leg with a stick. I think after watching that I would rather have birth in a hospital due to health risks.