Can I use my infants verification of birth facts given to me from the hospital to fly?
My son is going to be 6 weeks and we will be flying in about a week. I still haven't gotten his birth certificate, I ordered it, it just hasn't gotten here. I have his verification of birth facts given to me from the hospital and it has everything that a birth certificate has on it. Will airlines accept this? I can't find a number that isn't a machine to talk to for the airline I am using.
Did anyone know that infants do not form attachments to caregivers until around 8 months?
@ H*******, The studies that prove this show that infants do not show any caregiver preference (i.e., no signs of distress or hieghtened blood pressure when held by someone else, no signs of recognition when held by biological parents) until around 8 months. Also, babies adopted before one year of age are rarely maladjusted (assuming they were treated well during that time). There's the proof. These are facts. If you don't like it, I'm sorry. Education opens up whole new worlds of information, you should look into it. I don't claim to "know it all", by the way. I'm working on my Master's degree in order to learn more, because I don't know it all. What are you doing with your life?
Are there any hospitals in America that allow you to give birth to a breech baby?
Any hospital will allow this. You cannot be forced to have a C-section if you do not consent. You can refuse to consent even if we are very sure your baby will die without a cesarean.In the past, studies have been mixed about the safety of vaginal breech delivery. Many studies show an increase in neonatal morbidity and mortality with a planned vaginal breech delivery. This doesn’t mean your delivery would have a negative outcome, only that the risk appears to be elevated. A recent study showed a 3 to 4 times increased risk of neonatal death with planned vaginal breech delivery. Yet the overall risk is low.When we were taught vaginal breech delivery, we were taught to ‘smoke a looong cigar’. This means that it takes a long time, and we allow maternal expulsive efforts only (NO PULLING ON BABY). It’s helpful if the obstetrician has some experience placing piper forceps.Many of us continue to perform vaginal breech deliveries, usually for the second twin if not head down. The evidence is pretty clear that it is safer to perform a breech extraction for the second twin rather than attempting to turn the baby into a head down position.Some providers are comfortable with this, and others recommend a cesarean when the second twin is not head down. Some of that comfort depends on the medical legal situation of the specific state. Some hospitals in Florida do not allow providers to perform operative vaginal deliveries (with a vacuum or forceps) or breech extraction because the liability is higher.
Nc Drug testing after giving birth?
I live in NC and worked in the clinical lab at a hospital here for almost 6 years. I think we sent off maybe 2 or 3 newborn drug screens during the time that I worked there (at least that I was aware of). Doctors generally won't order a drug test on a baby unless he or she is showing symptoms of withdrawal or they have a good reason to believe that the mother was using illegal drugs. Edit -- Drug tests are usually performed on urine. It is very, very rare for any doctor to order a blood drug test, and hCG levels are tested through blood draws. Its much easier and accurate to test for the metabolites of the drug (which are passed in your urine or in meconium, which is a baby's first bowel movement). Of course, I'm not advocating drug use during pregnancy or any time for that matter, but I'm just giving you the facts as I know them from my professional experience.
What is the difference between a certificate of live birth and a birth certificate?
The difference between the two depends entirely on the official definitions for them under the birth registration laws of that particular country.In other words, the difference is what the local laws indicate.Normally in most countries, there isn’t a difference. A birth certificate itself is a certificate of birth registration — since registering a birth will be evidenced by the authorities issuing a certificate (the birth certificate).It’s a matter of official terminology. Some countries call it a “birth certificate” and others call it a “certificate of [live, stillborn] birth” or some other nomenclature.
Do US immigration officers deny entry to pregnant women with a valid visa to avoid citizenship by birth to the future child?
Let's start by saying that, although I have traveled to and from the US several times, I'm not an US citizen and do not know personally any CBP or TSA officer. Therefore the following answer stems entirely from my guesswork. I honestly do not believe that there is any written law, rule or regulation stating that a foreign pregnant woman cannot enter the US territory under any circumstances, in order to prevent the birth of another "anchor baby" (that's the term some media employ to define children born in America from immigrant parents).Also, airlines are very reluctant to accept heavily pregnant women on board of their planes for obvious reasons regarding the comfort, health and safety of both the passenger and her unborn child (possible damages due to turbulence in flight, need to use the toilet often, possibility of going into labor in mid-flight, etc.), so that some of them require any evidently pregnant passenger to show a certificate from her ob-gyn stating her actual pregnancy week and her fitness to travel by air before letting them board one of their flights. All things considered, if an evidently pregnant woman shows up at any American border checkpoint (not necessarily just off an international flight), she could be eventually subject to extended questioning and extra scrutiny about her destination, the purpose of her travel, the intended length of her stay, her eventual relations or acquaintances in the US, etc., but I seriously doubt that she would be denied entry solely on the basis of her pregnancy.
If natural child birth is so painful why do most women opt for it? Instead why not go for cesarean delivery? What are the benefits and costs of natural childbirth?
As a co-founder of International Cesarean Awareness Network, a cesarean mother, and a natural birth mother, I feel that I am qualified to answer this question. I have given birth five times. My first birth was, basically, an unattended hospital birth. The hospital staff didn't think I was in actual labor, so they never called my doctor. He finally called the hospital to see if I had come in. He arrived after I had birthed my daughter. I tore extensively due to poor nutrition and poor positioning. My second child was born by emergency cesarean, weighing one ounce more than her sibling. The surgery went well, and my recovery was uneventful. However, it was six months before I felt back to normal physically.My third child was a VBAC-Vaginal Birth After Cesarean-in a hospital with a family physician. The labor was intense, but I was able to sleep between contractions. My baby was born in one push, and weighed 2 1/2 pounds more than her sisters. I only needed one stitch, and I felt back to normal physically in a week and a half.My last two children were born at home, with midwives attending. Both births were calm and easy, despite my last baby birthing face up. Both home birth babes were 2 pounds bigger than my first two babes. Natural, unmedicated, unmanaged birth is the safest, easiest, least painful way to birth a baby for over 90% of all women. Unfortunately, doctors and hospitals in the USA do not understand this. Doctors want to manage birth, make it faster, more efficient, more convenient. These goals may be helpful to the doctor. They are not helpful to the mother. Birth, in most cases, should not even be considered a medical procedure. It is a natural process, but a delicate one. Mothers cannot labor and birth easily if they are feeling unsafe. Hospitals are inherently scary places filled with beeping machines, gowned and gloved strangers and super germs. No wonder so many labors end up stalling, or even stopping. Which would you prefer-eating a meal of your choosing at your own pace, or having a feeding tube shoved down your throat and proper nutrition pumped directly into your stomach? The tube is very efficient, and the nutrition is more than adequate. I think we would all want the meal, though. Woman would do best birthing in a place of their own choosing, birthing at their own pace.
Giving baby up for adoption?
Get a grip. You, for whatever reason, chose to bring a child into this world. Now do your job and be a mother. Bed. Made. Lie. Don't make your child pay for your lack of planning and/or birth control. Don't be an abandoner. Are you prepared for your child to hate you one day? If you abandon your child, you will be willfully stealing that child's identity and ENTIRE family. Don't do it. Don't be an abandoner.