CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH

   I chose mental health of mothers, fathers, and families in general. The topic is meanigful to me because wanting to be a childhood professional you never know what type of issues that a child and his or her family may be dealing with. It is very important to me that I am aware of changes or issues that a child may be going through,so that if I observe different behavior, I can hopefully the child and family.I also know someone close to me that was diagnosed with depression at the age of fifteen and it was very hard for the family.
   I found information at http://www.menshealthaustrialia.net/ A study was conducted of nearly 87,000 families in Britian and it was found that 21% of fathers and 39% of mothers experienced a period of depression by the time their children was twelve years old. 13% of mothers and 3% of fathers become depressed by the time their babies reach its first birthday. Divorced men are three times likely to committ suicide than any other. Suicide rates follows high for ages 30-34 and then ages 40-49. Married men have thwe lowest suicide rate.
   I have learned that is very important to be aware of the signs of depression and or suicide. It is very important to communicate with parents and caregivers. It would be helpful for parents with teenagers to have resources available,just in case they have a teen in trouble or know of someone else that need help.

MY PERSONAL BIRTHING EXPERIENCE

 I have not exprienced a personal childbirthing. I have two childrens but they were adopted. Health reasons occured which caused me not to be able to have children however I have a daughter and and a son. I drove one one of my sisters to the hospital to deliver. I sat in the labor room with her while the nurses connected her to the monitors to keep a check on her and the baby vital signs. When she reached 6cm.,the nurse came in and gave her and epidural shot,quickly after the shot the contractions started coming quicker,that's when I left out the room,the next minute the doctor came out and said that she had a baby boy.
 I did research on how women deliver in Japan. Majority of the women in Japan refer to deliver their baby at home with mid-wives and then go to the hospital after the baby is born to make sure the baby and herself is okay. Japan have several small hospitals that are just for childbearing. The only differences that I can compare to what I exprerienced by reading about women in Japan is that we are not going to deliver our babies at home and we do not have mid-wives that come to your home for delivery.