Early Childhood Educator

Natural Disaster: I remember in 1989 my city was hit by Hurricane Hugo, at that time I was 8 years old and can vividly remember everything that occurred. I remember my family wanting to evacuate, but we didn't because my grandfather refused to leave. There was no way that we would leave him behind, so I remember my family members packing up their belonging and heading to my grandparents house, it was about 20 of us in a three bedroom brick house, but we made it work we were determine to all stick together and pray for the best. Once the lights went out and we lit candles and a kerosene light. all I remember is bundling under covers with my face covered listening to the wind whistle and trees crackling. I remembered being so scared no one knew what the outcome would be once this storm passed over. There was the constant sound of the rain hitting the tin roof, loud rolls of thunders, popping sound of lightning. This stressor was something that I will never forget. After the sto

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is an unexplainable death of infants, usually occurs during sleep of a child less than one year of age (Wikipedia,2017). SIDS is important to me because I want to know the cause of this unexpected death that affects infants. It concerns me that no one can actually pinpoint what causes SIDS. I know their are ways to help reduce the risks, but what causes SIDS? I think it would be helpful to parents if we had an answer to this question. I read that the cause is unknown, but might be associated with defects in the brain that controls breathing and the arousal of sleep, low birth weight, respiratory infection, sleeping positions, siblings who were victims of SIDS, etc., but I could not find a known cause. Does anyone know the exact cause? New Zealand has the highest rates of SIDS, with the US right behind with the second highest. Babies are twice likely to die in New Zealand than in the US. The UK was the safest place for babies to sleep in the Western part

My personal  birthing experience was scary and amazing. I was scared because I was about to give birth to a beautiful baby boy, but just a year and four months earlier I delivered a baby boy at 20 weeks who was still born. Having to go through the lost of my first child was a traumatic experience. I did not find out that the child that I thought would be a healthy baby boy would not survive until a day before I ended up delivering him still born. I lost my first child do to health reasons, he had spinal bifida and according to the doctors would be mentally "retarded" with no chance of survival if I carried him full term.  After going through this traumatic experience I never thought that I would be blessed to give birth to another child, but on September 23, 2005 I did. This was an amazing experience on at 7:30 p.m. that day I gave birth to a healthy baby boy 7 lbs 1 oz, 21 inches long. He was everything I imagine healthy with a full head of hair and ready to be loved. I