Expecting Mom

Have you ever wonder what it felt like to be an expecting mom? An expecting mom goes through different mood changes like being completely okay one moment and then next you know she is getting irriating by something really fast. She also has all these different cravings for food. She might even crave for something out of the ordinary. She might even crave for the same food over and over and not ever get tired of it. An expecting mom really has to watch out for her health because what ever she does can affect her baby. If she doesn't take good care of herself, then it could affect her and her unborn child.

Sudden mood changes is one effect that comes along with being pregnant. Her hormone is constantly changing which triggers her to have these different mood swings. As for me, I am expecting my second child and I can pretty admit that I have mood swings. When I am trying to study and someone bugs me or the environment that I am in is too loud I get irriated and annoyed really fast. That is probably because I am tired and stressed out from studying. Can tell that the hormones are triggering my mood changes? Although an expecting mom should not be angry, sad, or upset all the time because she could be suffering from depression. If she is depressed during her pregnancy it could harm her baby and risk her losing her baby from not being healthy. If she is depressed she should tell her doctor so that they could treat her or even give her medication.

Cravings for all sort of foods is normal for an expecting mom. She can't explain why she is craving for a certain food because it is just part of her pregnancy. She might crave for foods that she hasn't had in a really long time and go out her way just to get those food that she wants. She might even crave for a lot of junk food such as cakes, cookies, and sodas. These are the foods that she should try to avoid as much as possible because it is not healthy for her. She might even crave for something that she doesn't like. For example a pregnant woman might hate peanut butter and jelly sandwich before she was pregnant, then all of a sudden just craves for it and it becomes her favorite snack to eat while being pregnant. She might even go back to hating it after the baby is born. That is just part of her pregnancy symptoms that she goes through.

Eatting healthy and staying healthy is a very important factor for an expecting mom. If she doesn't eat the right nutritions that she needs then it is affecting her baby because her child is not getting the right source of nutritions that he needs. She should definitely not smoke, drink alcohol, or do any drugs while she is pregnant because it can really harm her baby. If she smokes, her baby could be born premature and even have breathing problems. She should not do drugs because her child can become dependant on the drugs that she is using. If she does drugs such as smoking crystal meth throughout her whole pregnancy, and when her baby is born he would most likely want the drug too right after coming out of her womb. He has become so dependant on the drug that he craves and need it. So be healthy and staying healthy is very important. Expecting moms goes through all sort of different things and changes. This is some ideas of what she goes through.

Torture Memo Respond

Are the intense interrogation techniques that the United States uses, a form of torture that C.I.A agents should continue to use as an effective tool? I believe that these interrogation techniques such as water boarding, cramping, and walling is a form of torture because is used to make a person feel all distorted just to get information from him. Torture (www.dictionary.com) is the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty, and waterboarding (“www.wikipedia.org/wiki/waterboarding”) is a form of torture. I don't believe that these tools are effective because when it is used on a person to get information from him, he isn't giving the correct information because he is not thinking clearly. He might also give false information to the C.I.A agents so that they would stop torturing him. If a person is still not giving information at all then the techniques that the agent is using is not effective because no matter what the agent does towards him he still won’t speak.

I believe that interrogation such as walling and water boarding is still a form of torture because it can still do harm to a person physically and mentally. Walling consists of slamming a person against a wall to get him to talk. I think this form of technique is only hurting him. Walling doesn’t get a person anywhere or any information. I think water boarding is still torture because it makes a person believe that he is drowning. This technique makes him feel like he can’t believe and is suffocating even when he isn’t really drowning it stills feel that way. These techniques use still causes pain to a person, so therefore I do believe it is torture.

I don’t believe that the interrogation techniques that the C.I.A agents use are an effective tool because like I mentioned above it could cause a person to give false information. It could also cause a person to tell lies just so C.I.A agents would get an answer from him. I think the techniques that they use only puts fear into a person’s mind, causing him to think differently than he normally would. I think that the United States should find a different solution and method to use when interrogating a person, one which doesn’t feel like torture.

Single Moms

According to "", there are about 10.4 million single moms since the year 2006. Being a single mom is really hard because she has to do everything on her own such as working, taking care of her children, and providing for them. For a single mom it can get really frustrating and stressful at time because there is no one else there to help her with her kids. She also doesn't have any one to support her. Most single moms would probably have to find some assistance to help her out with housing and paying her bills. Even if she have a job she might not make enough money to provide for her kids and pay all the utilities at the same time. She might seek help from the county, where they offer a bunch of different benefit programs such as food stamps, child care, health care, and filing for child support.

A single mom most likely don't have much time to her or have time to relax because she is probably constantly around her kids and satisfying their needs and not her own. Taking time away from her kids or just a couple of hour will help her relieve some stress and relax a bit. She should ask her children's grandparents if they can watch her kids for an hour or so, so that she would have some free time to her self.
A single mom that has been single for a great amount of time should go out and mingle. She might find other single moms which would be a great thing because they can share their experience with each and get more advices and tips on being a single mom. She might even meet a single dad or find love once again. Find someone that might help her out as partner in parenting.

A single mom probably work twice as hard and she probably sets a higher goal for herself because she wants to give her children the best things in life that she can offer them. She works twice as hard as a mom because she doesn't want her kids to go through what she had gone through. I think single moms are the strongest women because of the hardship that they have to go through just to survive as a single mom.

Stay at Home Moms

There is nothing wrong with being a stay at home mom. Although some people do judge moms that stay at home by saying that they are lazy and don't want to do anything. She might even feel guilty when people judge her for being a stay at home mother. There are plenty of different reasons why some moms choose to be a stay at home mom, people just don't see it from her point of view, but from their own. I don't think there is anything wrong with a mom who chooses to stay home and be with her child.

Some people might call stay at home moms lazy. A working mom might judge a stay at home mom and wonder why she does not work, when she has to support her kids. Like I mentioned above judging a stay at home mom might make her feel guilty over something she don't have to be guilty about. It's okay to be a stay at home mom without the judgments of others. It shouldn't matter what others think. Some people might think its wrong or judge a stay at home mom because they can't be at home with their own kids. They might be missing out on their own child. Others might hate the fact that they have to work while she doesn't have to work.

A mom probably have several difference reason why she chooses to stay at home with her son. She might stay at home with her son because he is too young and she can't let go of him just yet. She might even just be waiting until he reaches a school age, where she is sure that he can take care of himself and be away from her for a few hours. A mom might stay home to take care of her child because he is still too attached to her and can't let her go. She might even choose to stay home because it is something her and her husband agreed on. It is also hard to trust someone else to watch over your child while you are gone because you don't know what a person can do to your child. As for me I am very caution about who babysits my child because I don't know if they feed him when he needs to be fed or if they are paying attention to him at all. He is 3 years old and I still get worried about who he stays with and still can't let go that he is now growing up. I still rush home from school just to come and take care of him even if when I know that he is in good hands. There are several reason I could come up with and it is what I feel. I think a person shouldn't change a stay at home mom because she chooses to be one for a reason.

The Teenage Mom

It's already hard to be a mom, but can you image how hard it is to be a teenage mom? A teenage mom might be overwhelmed and scared. She doesn't know anything about taking care of a child when she is not a full adult herself. She would have to balance out taking care of her child, being a student in high school, and find the time to herself or with friends. That is not an easy task to do because she probably has a lot of things going on for her. She probably won't even have much time for herself or for her friends, which will probably cause her to stress out because she can't relieve any stress or have anything free time.

Being a first time mom especially, a first time teenage mom can be quite scary. She might be afraid because she does not know much about raising a child. A newborn constantly cries for everything he needs, such as formula, a diaper change, or just wanting to be held. If her child does not stop crying, it might even scare her more because she can't seem to figure out what is the cause of his cry. She might even freak out when her son gets sick with a fever and rush him into the emergency room because that is all that she can think of. She wouldn't think to give him tylenol to bring it his fever down because she wouldn't know. Most likely the doctors will give her directions and prescribe him tylenol or some kind of medicine for his fever.

It can be very stressful for a teenage mom because she probably has to balance her work in being a full-time high school and a full-time mom. It is hard to find the time to study or do homework and work around a baby's schedule. A baby can be up one moment and asleep the next. He can be crying and wants to be held; he can also be fine one moment. It's also hard when she needs a friend to vent to and she doesn't have time for friends because she is too busy taking care of her baby. This can probably cause her to be depress and moody. So you see it's not easy to be a mom, but it's even harder if you're a teenage mom.

Moms Attending School

It's already hard enough to be a mom, but it is even more harder when a mom is a student. It is hard to put time aside to study when you have children especially when the children are always around you. There is no quiet time for a mom to focus and concentrate on her studies. A mom is probably frequently interrupted while she is studying or has to stop studying just to take care of her kids. It also make things hard for a mom when she has to find someone to watch over the children while she is in school. Even when finding a baby sitter she still has to pay them to watch the kids. Some mothers also don't like the fact of leaving their children. With the expenses of kids, going to school makes it even more expensive for moms. She will have to pay for things such books and tuition fees, which she will be spending even more money.
For me, finding the time to study is very hard and it gets very frustrating when I can't focus on my studies, especially when I know that I have a test or quiz the next day. From my experience, my son is always bugging me and wanting things every time i do try to study. The best time a mom probably has to study is early in the morning or really late at night, which is during the time that the children are sleeping. Another time a mom could probably study if she has kids that are in school, but it might be a problem if she is also working. Moms that are students have to find a schedule that works for her, but it is not easy.

Changes

When a person becomes a mom she goes through all these different changes. A change that she could go through could be something physically. She might change the way she dresses because dressing a certain way might be inappropiate when a person is a mom. If a mom goes out with her child in a really short dress that is too revealing, people might look at her and judge her in a bad way. Her body would probably also change. She might not have as much energy as she did before she had a child. Another change that a mom goes through is the way she thinks. A mom always have to think twice about everything and whether or not it is the best interest for her child. For example, if a young mom that is her twenty's is invited to go out to a club or bar she would probably not go because she would rather stay home to take care of her child. If she wasn't a mom then she would probably end up going. A mom has to think about how she wants her to raise her child and what she wants the child to grow up to be like. The big changes that a mom go through is the different stages of age that the child becomes, like from an infant to a toddler, or from a big kid to a teenager. Each stage the child is constantly changing because they are learning new things and so is the mom. Mom has to learn to discipline differently at every stages of age the child goes through.
It is not a easy change when a mom goes through the changes of the different age steps. When a child is an infant, their always changing in that stage. Mom have to deal with the constant change of the infant's sleeping pattern because an infant doesn't always sleep in the same patterns during the first twelve months of birth. She also has to go the changes of the infant's eatting patterns. An infant only drinks formula for the first six months and after that the infant will start eatting solid foods. When a child becomes a toddler they go through all these emotions and that is when they learn how to talk and walk and become more active.