Children affected by a parent's drug or alcohol misuse may have very particular needs — counselling or family therapy to help build and maintain family relationships, help with particular medical and behavioural conditions (for example if the child is affected
by foetal alcohol syndrome) and help to address their attitudes to and experiences of substance misuse.
Not exact matches
Some women choose to have absolutely no medical involvement in their labour, meaning they have no pain relief, no medication and no
foetal monitoring; this is a personal choice and will be supported
by the medical team, as long as nothing happens which could threaten the life of the mother or baby; if an emergency situation arises, the doctor may recommend taking medication or having a caesarean section.
Foetal heart starts to develop
by the third week and
by the fifth week it begins to beat and can be seen as a tiny flicker from the vaginal ultrasound.
A
foetal Doppler is an ultrasound machine that is specially designed to direct sound waves towards a baby's heart and then uses the reflected sound to detect the sound made
by the baby's heart.
Listening to the
foetal heartbeat using a stethoscope is not only possible but is also recommended
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- Babies born with
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorders Rates of harm experienced
by another person's drinking in the UK are high.
«Results presented
by [CRISPR Therapeutics] at a haematology meeting showed that the method dramatically increased
foetal haemoglobin in β - Thalassemia patients» cells.
cat., Tate Gallery Liverpool, 1994, p. 18),
by another woman sculptor, Gertrude Hermes, is directly comparable with Infant in its isolation, but its
foetal repose contrasts with the hierarchical confidence of Hepworth's work.
We also calculated the annual proportion of male stillborn babies, defined
by Statistics New Zealand as a late
foetal loss (the current definition being a birth after the 20th week of gestation or a birth weight of at least 400 g).
Rosie, an Aboriginal woman with
foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, was declared
by a Magistrate to be «unfit to be tried» under the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996 (Western Australia).
That was also welcomed
by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health advocates, particularly in relation to risks for people with
foetal alcohol syndrome disorder (FASD) in the justice system.
NOFAS - UK (The National Organisation for
Foetal * Alcohol Syndrome - UK) is dedicated to supporting people affected
by Fo...