Upon examination by the obstetrician, he charted that the patient is in the early stage of labor. Which of the following is true in this state? 

The normal range of FHR is approximately 

A fetal heart rate baseline of 175 bpm is noted for more than 10 minutes. What is a possible cause of this tachycardia?

What is an allegory?  Explain this term, and give at least one example from our list of readings this unit.   Make sure to explain WHY your example could be considered an allegory.

An example of emotional abuse would be:

There are community services for new parents such as:

There are many challenges in parenting, such as:

This Colombian journalist and author is the most widely-known practitioner of “magical realism.” The author’s work includes the world-famous novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, which led to the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

“Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? …   I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”

“It so happened that during those days, among so many other carnival attractions, there arrived in the town the traveling show of the woman who had been changed into a spider for having disobeyed her parents. The admission to see her was not only less…but people were permitted to ask her all manner of questions about her absurd state and to examine her up and down so that no one would ever doubt the truth of her horror. She was a frightful tarantula the size of a ram and with the head of a sad maiden. What was most heartrending, however, was not her outlandish shape but the sincere affliction with which she recounted the details of her misfortune. While still practically a child she had sneaked out of her parents’ house to go to a dance, and while she was coming back through the woods after having danced all night without permission, a fearful thunderclap rent the sky in two and through the crack came the lightning bolt of brimstone that changed her into a spider. Her only nourishment came from the meatballs that charitable souls chose to toss into her mouth.”