presentation on pregnancy

[Jasmum]

I have to do a 5-10 minute presentation on a subject, I ended up with pregnancy....I've started it, going through month by month on what happens but I feel it's just a bit boring. The course i'm doing is an Access course to nursing & midwifery, most people are interested in midwifery (including myself) so really wanted an interesting angle to do it from but just can't think.......can anyone please help?
Am pg myself, so don't want to do anything morbid.

Attitudes to pregnancy in history? Different 'old wives tales' about pregnancy from round the world?

How about people who didn;t like being pregnant, and how all the changes that go on can make a woman feel she has no control over her own body. Very interesting contrast to the totally 'natural' miracle everybody told me it would be!

what about the differences in banned food based on country?

multiple vs single

alternative therapies which can be used at the different stages in pregnancy

UK care v's rest of europe/world

you can interview me about hating being PG if you want!!

Thanks guys, I decided to do pain relief & types of during labour.
But I'm struggling to fond the following things:

1. When Epidurals, gas & air, pethidene etc were first introduced?

2. Stats for how many births in 20003 for example & how many used pain releif & which type?

Are these things available, I've been searching the web for the last hour & can't find what I'm looking for....

Please help

Thanks sallystrawberry, I notice your doing the same course as me. I too am writing my personal statement.....I've not got any relevant expereince as such and am trying to make it sound good!! I agree it's very difficult.

ANyway, Thanks for the link, it is helpful but still doesn't give me the exact information that I'm looking for.
i really would like to know when pain releif was first administered in this country & hoe many births actually use pain relief (not even sure if this info is available)

i have to do a talk on teenage pregnancy im on the access course too, where are u studying ?

Slough, how about you?

dunstable are u finding it very nackering ?

will do a search for you on the medical database i have access to through work will post back soon

Katzguk, if you find anything I would be soooooo grateful!!! I hate the WWW!!!!

nikola, It's Ok, I haven't found it too bad yet, but I'm starting to feel the pressure a bit now, I;ve got a presentation to be in by next friday, an 1000 word essay by mid dec & a 1000 word report & another big biology assessment all due before xmas!! but I'm only gonna worry about it one bit at a time & at the moment it's the presentation, oh & the uni applications have to be in by next friday so am trying to make my personal statement sound fascinating. Added to the fact I'm pregnant it is quite knackering but one day at a time.

The use of epidural analgesia in labour is widespread with approximately 100,000 women in Britain using this form of pain relief each year (Chamberlain 1993).

Chamberlain G, Wraight A, Steer P, editors. Pain and its relief in childbirth. The results of a national survey conducted by the National Birthday Trust 1993;Churchill Livingstone

might be useful if you could get your hands on this will have a loo to see if i can

its available in the medical library here but its out on loan and not back until the 30th!! have you got medical library access

yes I have, I can go there tomorrow, did you get that info from your uni website?

Whens your presnetation? I could find you loads of stuff through athens? just need to work out how to email journals, You can try the nursing standard online or the nursing times?Ill have a look through the journals now....

my presentation has to be handed in next friday, but want to have it ready (ish) this weekend.
Whats athens (I've got a feelign I should know this)?

anthens is an online database which you can access journals through, you generally have to be a member most uni's are. I found the bit i sent you on an athens search result where that book was a reference when i googled it it brought up amazon which said something like book charting history an dcurrent research in pain relief

hiya, im doing the access to nursing over 2 years too!!
absolutly dreading the english presentation( i quit last year cos i started having panic attacks about it!) but the group this year are really good and supportive so gonna go for it! i havent got to worry about it yet as that in the new year!
got exams at beg of dec, anyone else in the same boat??
does anyone find the biology very heavy going? i do really enjoy it, just ssooo much info to take in. just finished assignment 1 for biology so i can focus on major revision!!!
sammie

I'm studying at slough (midwifery). Another good book is Margaret Yerby's 'Pain in childbearing: key issues in management".

Chapters include pain relief: past and present; physiology of labour pain; psychology of pain in normal labour; alternative therapies for pain relief.

Most of the chapters are written by my lecturers as it happens, and I actually worked with margaret the other week and she's great - very knowledgable!

Apart from that, you could subscribe to MIDIRS - £11 a quarter and you get a quarterly research based magazine and access to their own online database which contains only pregnancy related topics. Our uni gave us access free, as well as to Athens, so it's worth asking your college if they have such a facility.

Like it or not WWW is the way forward!

Good luck.