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How did different races, ethnicities, and classes care for their babies?

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How did different races, ethnicities, and classes care for their babies?

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Upper- and middle-class white women turned to hospitals for delivery of their babies due to the growing public acceptance of hospitals.

Poor urban European immigrants continued to deliver babies at home and/or turned to inexperienced general practitioners.

In rural areas of Mississippi, Alabama, and North Carolina, a majority of the population was Black and the infant mortality was double what it was for Whites.

Poor white women in remote mountain areas relied on untrained "Granny midwives" to deliver their babies.

(Keeling, et al., 2018)

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Supported employment of public health nurses and specifically funded nurses who would help in caring for people of Indian tribes (Keeling, et al., 2018).

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For some organizations, it provided funding to offset costs of efforts to decrease maternal-infant mortality and for others, it expanded care to include people in rural and remote areas like Alaska (Keeling, et al., 2018).

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Keeling, A., Hehman, M. Kirchgessnner, J, (2018) History of Professional Nursing in the United States. Toward a Culture of Health. (Springer publishing company)

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Audio Recording on Week 6 padlet (Application Activity)

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Audio Recording on Week 6 padlet (Application Activity)

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Providing supplies, education, awareness for the population and minorities, as well as checkups and home visits.

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They were also educating the mothers and other nurses.

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Diet: Eat the food you are used to. Drink 8 glasses of water every day. Do not drink any alcohol as they may poison the baby
Sleep: At least 8 hours every night with windows open
Exercise: Do your regular housework but lay time several times a day if only for 5 minutes.
Constipation: Drink a cup of coffee before breakfast, eat stewed fruit and 4 to 6 prunes (Keeling, et.al., 2018)

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Every pregnant woman should see a physician during her pregnancy (Keeling, et.al., 2018).

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Opening the first birth control clinic, however, was arrested as any contraception attempt was considered "obscene" after the 1873 Comstock Act (Keeling, et.al., 2018)

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Most of the acceptance in hospitals were for upper- or middle-class white women. The infant mortality was on the rise for black women as well as poor women. (Keeling, et.al., 2018)

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Segregation of hospitals (Keeling, et.al., 2018).

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Nurses braided their hair, gave enemas, placed patients on a clean night dress. Before, during and after childbirth nurses were assisting woman on labor as part of their care (Keeling, et.al., 2018).

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Infection Prevention and Health Prevention

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Infection Prevention and Health Prevention

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Always exercising aseptic technique before and after delivery (Keeling, et.al., 2018).

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The first sterile deliveries in the hospital (Keeling, et.al., 2018).

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The Adoption of Antiseptic and aseptic techniques in 1920s

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The Adoption of Antiseptic and aseptic techniques in 1920s

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Operating room nursing care (Keeling, et.al., 2018).

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Creating a Standardized Curriculum (Keeling, et.al., 2018).

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Technology advancements -Different Types of beds

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Technology advancements -Different Types of beds

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Surgical, Obstetric, Standard beds etc (Keeling, et.al., 2018).

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Nurses started to see importance in therapeutic care.  Despite technological advances nurses focused a major aspect of their care in feeding and bathing children and babies (Keeling, et.al., 2018).