Have you guys heard about abortions? From the televisions or from the sexual educations in school? If not, we are going to tell you more on abortion in this post.
What is Abortion?
It is the deliberate ending of pregnancy. It is by removing the baby from the womb of the mother before it can survive on its own. Remember: it should always be carried out by a trained doctor.
*It should only carried out during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy unless the life of the mother will be in danger
Abortion risks
• Infection of the womb and fallopian tubes
Make is difficult for a woman to get pregnant in the future
• Massive loss of blood from vagina
Can lead to death
• Puncturing of the uterus by the instrument
May result in massive loss of blood
• Feeling guilty
Lead to depression
There are many types of abortions.
Induced abortion:
-Surgical
opening the cervix of the uterus and emptying it using surgical instruments and suction
-Medical
vacuum or manual aspiration is used to complete the abortion surgically.
-Other means
Historically, a number of herbs reputed to possess abortifacient properties have been used in folk medicine
Abortion is sometimes attempted by causing trauma to the abdomen. The degree of force, if severe, can cause serious internal injuries without necessarily succeeding in inducing miscarriage
Abortion is a safe and legal way for women to choose to end pregnancy. 2 kind of abortion is the in-clinic abortion and the abortion pill.
The type of abortion procedure used in elective pregnancy termination is primarily determined by how far a woman is into pregnancy. During the first trimester, you will usually have the option of having a medical abortion procedure or a surgical abortion procedure . Before considering the various abortion procedures, it is recommended that you obtain a sonogram to determine if the pregnancy is viable (uterine, non-ectopic pregnancy) and for accurate pregnancy dating or gestation.
What abortion procedures are used during the first trimester?
In most cases, you will have a choice between medical or surgical abortion procedures during the first trimester. Medical abortions are only available up through nine weeks gestation.
The types of abortion procedures performed during the first trimester are:
Methotrexate & Misoprostol (MTX): a medical abortion procedure used up to the first seven weeks of pregnancy.
Mifepristone and Misoprostol: a medical abortion procedure used up to the first seven to nine weeks of pregnancy. It is also referred to as RU-486, the abortion pill and Mifeprex.
Suction Aspiration: a surgical abortion procedure used to terminate pregnancy between 6 to 12 weeks gestation. It is also referred to as suction curettage or vacuum aspiration.
What abortion procedures are used during the second trimester?
Medication based abortion procedures are not an option during the second trimester. The types of abortion procedures performed during the second trimester are:
Dilation & Curettage (D & C): a surgical abortion procedure used to terminate a pregnancy between 13 to 15 weeks gestation. It is also referred to as suction curettage or vacuum aspiration.
Dilation & Evacuation (D & E): a surgical abortion procedure used to terminate a pregnancy between 15 to 21 weeks gestation.
Induction Abortion: a rarely performed surgical procedure where salt water, urea, or potassium chloride is injected into the amniotic sac; prostaglandins are inserted into the vagina and pitocin is injected intravenously.
What abortion procedures are used during the third trimester?
Medication based abortion procedures are not an option during the third trimester. The surgical types of abortion procedures performed during the third trimester are:
Induction Abortion: a rarely done surgical procedure where salt water, urea, or potassium chloride is injected into the amniotic sac; prostaglandins are inserted into the vagina and pitocin is injected intravenously.
Dilation and Extraction: a surgical abortion procedure used to terminate a pregnancy after 21 weeks of gestation. This procedure is also known as D & X, Intact D & X, Intrauterine Cranial Decompression and Partial Birth Abortion.
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Hey here are some tips for parents on sexual education! Having "sex talks" not only get the child to know more about sex but also improves parent-child relationships! Kids drag your moms and dads to read this post right now!
Do you know what is having sex education with your child?
Sex education is an ongoing process of communication with your child. Like preschoolers, primary school-aged children need age-appropriate information about the biological processes of sex and reproduction. However, your conversations need to start broadening their scope to include topics such as puberty, sexual responsibility, feelings and relationships.
It is important to prepare your child for what will become an important part of their adult life. If you feel reluctant, keep in mind that it’s usually harder to talk to a teenager about sex than it is to a preteen. Laying the groundwork now may also help keep the lines of communication open during your child’s teenage years.
It is actually not early to have a "sex talk" with your child. You child is expereiencing puberty now and it is the right time to educate your child about sexual issues. Is it that you want to educate your child but you do not know how to start? Don't worry! We have some tips here.
Normal sexual development of a primary school-aged child
Don’t be horrified or alarmed if your child has an interest in sexual issues or displays certain sexual behaviours - this is completely normal. Typical behaviours can include:
• They become modest and embarrassed about being naked in front of their parents.
• They start gravitating towards same sex friends and may complain about ‘girl germs’ or ‘boy germs’ when speaking of the opposite sex.
• Games with other children could include kissing games and marriage role-play.
• Children are curious about gender differences, sexual intercourse and pregnancy, and may discuss these issues amongst themselves with varying degrees of accuracy.
• Sex play, such as ‘playing doctor’, may still occur because children of this age are interested in knowing more.
General suggestions
Suggestions on talking to your preteen about sexual issues include:
• Don’t decide that your child’s sex education is only the responsibility of the school - a child’s most influential role models are their parents. The changes of puberty Puberty brings about dramatic physical and emotional changes that may be frightening to an unprepared child. Suggestions include:
• If you are unapproachable, your child will turn to other sources of information that may not be reliable, such as friends.
• Talking about sex shouldn’t be a solemn lecture. Instead, chat about sexual issues together as part of your everyday family life. Don’t be afraid to have a few laughs.
• Try to be open and relaxed when talking about sex. If you act embarrassed or mortified, your child will get the message that sexual issues are taboo topics.
• Be clear about what you’re trying to say and don’t skirt around the issue. For example, simply telling your child to ‘protect yourself’ doesn’t teach them anything about contraception.
• Older children like to think they already know everything there is to know about sex. If this is the case, ask them questions so that you can identify the gaps in their knowledge.
• Read age-appropriate books on sex together with your child.
• Use age-appropriate sex education materials, such as books, to help explain to your child what changes they will undergo.
• Girls can start their periods as young as eight years old. Make sure they know what to expect. Show them what tampons and sanitary pads look like.
• Boys need to know about unwanted erections and wet dreams, so that these occurrences don’t alarm them.
• Inform girls about male pubertal changes, and boys about female pubertal changes.
The biology of sex and reproduction
Suggestions include:
• Build upon the foundations laid in their earlier years. Their sex education should include more detail.
• Be honest and truthful. If your child asks ‘Why do men and women have sex?’, don’t just say ‘To make babies’. Explain that people also have sex because they enjoy it and it feels good.
• If they ask about same sex relationships, tell them that some people have sex with people of the same sex.
• Use age-appropriate materials, such as books, to help explain the issues.
• The Hormone Factory is a website aimed at 10 to 12 year olds that explains puberty, sexual intercourse and sexual issues in a clear, light-hearted way. You could browse through the website together, clarifying any questions your child may have.
Sexual responsibility
Suggestions include:
• Once your child understands how babies are made, you can start discussing contraception. If you feel comfortable, show them your contraceptive pills or unwrap a condom so that they have a clearer understanding.
• Children need to be aware that sex can transmit diseases. Discuss safer sex issues, like the importance of always using a condom.
• Teach both girls and boys that sex should be something both people want, and that everyone has the right to say ‘no’.
• Talk about unwanted sexual touching. Stress that no one has the right to touch their genitals, and that they should tell you straightaway if it occurs.
Feelings and relationships
Suggestions include:
• Think about your own moral, ethical and religious sexual standards so that you can better explain your point of view to your child. It may help to discuss these issues first with your partner.
• If you have firm views about sexual issues, now is the time to start talking to your child about them. Be prepared for the possibility that your child may agree with you now but, over time, may either accept or reject your point of view.
• Stress that relationships are about respecting yourself and the other person, and having consideration for the partner’s feelings.
• Discuss sex in its wider context, as an important part of adult life that includes long term relationships and families.
What to do if you feel uncomfortable?
You may have found that discussing sex with your child was okay in their preschool years, but the extra detail required as your child gets older feels too embarrassing to talk about. Or perhaps you’ve been waiting so long for the ‘right time’ that you haven’t talked to your child about sex at all. Suggestions include:
• Get some materials - get some age-appropriate materials, such as books or videos, and look through them with your child.
• Be honest if you feel embarrassed - if you can’t face talking about sex, provide the materials and let your child look through them alone. If your child has questions for you, try your best to answer them. If you are too shy, explain this to your child.
• Use the Internet - log onto a good website, like The Hormone Factory, and let your child browse alone.
• Ask someone else - you could ask a trusted relative or friend to talk to your child in your place.
• Explain your own attitudes - keep in mind that your child won’t know about your morals, values and beliefs unless you tell them.
And also take note of these:
1. Be clear about your own sexual attitudes and values.
2. Talk with your children early and often about sex, and be specific.
3. Supervise and monitor your children and adolescents.
4. Know your children's friends and their families.
5. Discourage early, frequent, and steady dating.
6. Take a strong stand against your child dating someone older.
7. Help your teen-agers to have options for the future that are more attractive than early pregnancy and parenthood.
8. Let your children know that you value education highly.
9. Talk to sons as well as daughters.
10. Know what your kids are watching, reading, and listening to.
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Hi there! This is about seuxal relation and social issues! They are somehow interlinked. By watching television, you guys must have known many things about sexual relationship. Sexual relations are actually linked to social issues, do you know that? No? It's okay, we are now going to show you how are they linked.
There are actually many sexual relations related to social issues. Pre-marital sex, abortions, sexually transmitted infections. Pre-marital sex actually leads to abortions and having sexually transmitted infections.
What is Pre-marital sex?
It is to have sex before marriage
The consequences are:
• Unplanned pregnancies
• Abortion
• Abandoned babies
• Sexually transmitted infection
So the best way is to avoid having sex before marriage.
What are abortions?
It is the deliberate ending of pregnancy. It is by removing the baby from the womb of the mother before it can survive on its own. Remember: it should always be carried out by a trained doctor.
*It should only carried out during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy unless the life of the mother will be in danger.
Abortion risks
• Infection of the womb and fallopian tubes
Make is difficult for a woman to get pregnant in the future
• Massive loss of blood from vagina
Can lead to death
• Puncturing of the uterus by the instrument
May result in massive loss of blood
• Feeling guilty
Lead to depression
What is sexually transmitted disease?
Diseases that are passed on by an infected person during sexual intercourse.
It can infect others by other ways.
The disease is caused by a bacteria or a virus and it often show no signs and symtoms for the initial stage so it cannot be detected early. Late treatment may cause health problems or even death.•
Examples:
Gonorrhoea
-caused by bacteria called neisseria gonorrheae
-can be treated only in the early stages with antibotics.
Symptoms and signs of Gonorrhoea:
-pain when urinating
-pus coming out of penis or vagina
-damages reproductive organs, leading to sterility
-can cause blindness in babies born from mothers suffering from this disease.
Syphilis
-caused by spiral shaped bacteria called treponema pallidum
-can be treated only in the early stages with pencillin
Symptoms and signs of Syphillis:
Early stages
-sores in mouth and on reproductive organs
Late stages
- deformed joints
- Abnormal teeth
- Blindness
- Serious heart and brain problems
- Insanity
- Babies born from mothers suffering
AIDS
How do people get AIDS?
• Through sexual intercourse with an infected person
• Through bites and cuts
• Use of contaminated injection needles
• During the transfusion of blood contaminated with the virus
• During pregnancy, a mother with AIDS can pass the disease to her unborn baby
• Baby may also get infected from the mother’s breast milk
Symptoms and signs of HIV infection
After a few months or several years:
• Tiredness
• Weight loss
• Fever
• Serious diarrhea
After 8 to 10 years.
• Pneumonia
• Different form of cancer (eg. blood vessels)
• Damage to brain
• Death
Common myths about AIDS
FALSE and MISLEADING INFORMATION!
• Touching infected person
• From sneezing
• From kissing
• From toilet seats
The reason is because the virus cannot survive in the open for too long, it will die almost immediately when it is outside of the body.
Pevention of STDs:
• Sexual intercourse with one uninfected partner
• Sexual intercourse using a condom
• Not taking drugs, especially not sharing needles which may contaminated with bacteria or viruses
• Making sure that eye piercing equipment has been sterilized before it is used on you
• Make sure that a barber uses a new blade when shaving
*All this diesases can actually prevented by using the contrceptives like the condom,cap and the diaphragm. Birth control pills can also be taken by the woman to prevent the overy from releasing any egg.
Another way is to not have so many sexual partners.
Social Issues of STD:
The society treats STD suffers(especially AIDS sufferers) badly
It is actually unfair to treat them this way as they do not wish to be infected with this disease.
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Hey hi! This post is to educate you about the changes in you. Most girls at your age has already started puberty. The guys will start later in a few years time. You may ask what is puberty.
Puberty is the stage of growth in a young person when reproductive organs become functional.
Guys and girls develop some sexual characteristic differently.
Changes in boys
• Reproductive organs grow larger in size and start to produce sperms
• Body grows rapidly
• Height increase rapidly in short time
• Body becomes more muscular
• Hair grows on face and body (especially under the armpit and reproductive organs)
• Voice ‘breaks’ – voice sounds deeper
• Appetite increases
• Pimples appear
During puberty, boys produce lot of sperms. Often, this are released from the penis at night but it is normal and harmless and happens in most boys. This is called “wet dreams”
For girls it is a different thing of course.
Changes in girls
• Height increase rapidly
• Breast grow larger
• Hips become wider and rounder
• Hair grows on reproductive organ and under the armpits
• Menstruation begins
• Pimples appear on faces
What is menstruation?
Menstruation is also called as ‘period’ and it can last from 2 to 7 days. At puberty, you have eggs ripen at different times. When the egg is ripe or mature, it is released from the ovary. It is called ovulation and occurs once every 28 days. At about the same time, the uterus becomes thicker and has more blood. It is to prepare the uterus to have a baby. If the egg is fertilized, it grows in the uterus<.b>. But if it is not fertilized, it will disintegrate. And therefore the thick lining of the uterus is not needed. The egg, together with the blood and uterus lining, comes out of the vagina. This removal is called menstruation.
Puberty occurs at different ages for different people; do not worry if you develop earlier or later than your friends. You may be shorter now, but you may be taller in few years time. Just be happy about yourself!
We do not jsut have physical changes. We have emotional changes too. We think that the opposite sex becomes more and more interesting and attractive and we look at ourselves and ask questions.
How does our body changes?
At puberty, the pituitary gland, located in the central part of the brain, starts making hormones that stimulate the ovaries(for the girls) and the testes(for the guys) to produce sex hormones. The secretion of these hormones causes a child to develop into an adult. This is puberty.
We should think positively about our physical appearance and feelings because we are normal at this time.
Well that is all! Please continue to read other posts!
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Are you interested in knowing your body?
Are you all curious about the body you have?
Well we are here to tell you more about it!
Interesting huh? So pay close attention students! *Cough*
Guys are very different from girls. For example, most guys have short hair and most girls have long hair. Guys are rougher whereas girls are more gentle. These are some of the character differences between guys and girls. Guys and girls also do have body differences don't they?
Guys and girls have different reproductive systems. Reproductive systems are located at the lower part of the body, the part where you pee. Guys and girls also have different sex cells which are produced in the reproductive system.
Male Reproductive System
Use of sexual organs
Sex glands: produce fluids in which the sperms ‘swim’. The mixture of fluids and sperms is called semen.
Testis: produce sperms and male sex hormones
Sperm duct: carries sperms to penis
Penis: where semen leaves the body and is deposited in the vagina of the female
Scrotum: a bag of skin which holds the testes outside the body
Urethra: a tube which carries sperms and urine at different times
Interesting note* When the body is cold, the scrotum shrinks and becomes tighter to hold in body heat. When it's warm, the scrotum becomes larger and more floppy to get rid of extra heat.
Male Sex Cell
Male Sex Cell
Sperm – It is the smallest cell in the human body. Each sperm has a tail (used for swimming), body and a head (nucleus that contain chromosomes).
Female Reproductive System
Use of sexual organs:
Uterus: where the baby grows during pregnancy
Fallopian Tube: connects the ovary to the uterus
Collects eggs released from the ovary and carries them to the uterus
Cervix: the narrow opening of the uterus. It becomes wider during delivery
Vagina: muscular tube where sperms from the penis are deposited. It also becomes wider during delivery
Female Sex Cell
Ovum – It is the largest cell in the human body. It is 10 times larger than the sperm but it cannot move by itself.
In the human reproductive process, two kinds of sex cells are involved. The sperm, and, the egg or ovum meet in the female's reproductive system to create a new individual. Both the male and female reproductive system are essential for reproduction.
The sex cells(both the sperm and the ovum) fuse togther to form a offspring. This is how babies are formed.
Why do we have all these "strange things"?
All living things reproduce. Reproduction — the process by which organisms make more organisms like themselves — is one of the things that sets living things apart from nonliving things. Humans, like other organisms, pass certain characteristics of themselves to the next generation through their genes, the special carriers of human traits. The genes parents pass on to their offspring are what make kids similar to others in their family, but they're also what make each child unique. These genes come from the father's sperm and the mother's egg, which are produced by the male and female reproductive systems.
Well this is it! We hope through reading this post you will know more about your very own body!
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