LaShawn Savage Education Blog

Child Development and Public Health Nutrition and Malnutrition     There are so many things that are relevant to public health that relates to the health and well-being of children of all ages. The topic of nutrition and malnutrition is very important to me because I see it on a daily basis in some of my students and their families. Malnutrition is not just a problem in the third world countries but it exists in the United States of America. We are considered one of the world’s super powers but we have children going to bed each night without enough food. Some of our children get the majority of their meals from the school lunches that they receive each day. This is a problem. I have students that are hungry and crying when they reach the center in the morning and we do not have breakfast until 8:30 as of a result of this have snack foods or little breakfast finger foods that I have in my classroom that I can give my students. I look at the commercials about how ...

This assignment represents three of the most amazing and lovable experiences that I will always remember and hold dear to my heart. I am the mother of three wonderful young men. I must say that each experience was different. We had our oldest son Marquis when I was seventeen. He was born a month early. He was supposed to be born on January 31st but instead he was born on December 29th. I had a natural vaginal birth. I went to labor after I had a checkup and the nurse gave me pap smear that put me into labor. He weighed in at 5lbs but he had to stay a week in the NICU to make sure he did not have any complications for being born early. I had a lot of back labor with him and I labored for about twelve hours.  My second son Joshua was born closer to his due date but I labored for twenty-three hours. My water started to leak and I was contracting so I went to the hospital. I was immediately admitted and I had to lay in the bed. My labor was good for about six hours but It then stopped ...