A Woman’s Healthy Reproductive System-Sex Education (tangle)
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Your reproductive system is extremely sensitive and without a healthy reproductive system, it can be very difficult to get pregnant. Many women suffer from infertility. Seeing a physician and having regular pap smears and breast exams are important steps in keeping your reproductive system healthy.
The slightest hormonal imbalance can disrupt the reproductive system which is why it is so important to take care of it. Some factors that can seriously impair your reproductive health include: endometriosis, PCOS , pelvic prolapse, pelvic inflammatory disease, and cervical cancer.
The organs of the reproductive system are:
Uterus- Also called the womb, the uterus is a hollow, pear shaped organ with a muscular wall and a lining. The uterus expands many times in size during pregnancy to hold the growing fetus.
Fallopian Tubes- These thin, soft tubes extend from the uterus to the ovaries. During ovulation, an ovary releases an egg into the fallopian tube next to it.
Ovaries– The ovaries are located in the left and right lower abdomen. Ovaries produce eggs as well as hormones like estrogen and progesterone.
Cervix– The cervix is the lower portion of the uterus that opens into the vagina. During labor, the cervix dilates (expands) to about 4 inches (10 centimeters) in diameter.
Vagina– This tube-like organ connects the uterus to the outside of the body. The birth of a baby follows it’s path.
Hymen– The hymen (also called maidenhead) is a fold of mucous membrane which surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening. It forms part of the vulva, or external genitalia.
Menstruation, or “period,” is the term given to a woman’s periodic discharge of blood, tissue, fluid and mucus from the reproductive organs of sexually mature females. The flow usually lasts from 3 - 6 days each month and is caused by a sudden reduction in the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
When girls begin to go through puberty (usually starting between the ages of 8 and 13), their bodies and minds change in many ways. The hormones bodies stimulate new physical development, such as growth and breast development. Roughly 2 years after a girl’s breasts begin to develop, she usually gets her first menstrual period.
A woman is fertile only for a few days during each menstrual cycle and once ovulation has occurred, there is only a 24 hour period in which fertilization can take place. The reproductive process begins with the ovary releasing an egg and setting it off on it’s journey down the fallopian tube towards the uterus. In the fallopian tube, it begins to produce an enzyme that helps attract the sperm from the males ejaculation.
A man releases millions of sperm when he ejaculates but only a few hundred will be able to make it all the way from the cervix up into the uterus and then into the correct fallopian tube. Once there, only one sperm will then be able to make its way through the eggs tough coating to fertilize the egg.
After fertilization, the egg continues into the uterus where it implants itself into the endometrial lining and officially becomes an embryo.
A missed menstrual period is most often the first sign of pregnancy, but typically, additional symptoms and signs are experienced in the early stages of pregnancy. These include:
-Breast swelling, tenderness, and pain
-Nausea and vomiting
-Fatigue and tiredness
-Abdominal boating
-Frequent urination
-Elevated basal body temperature
-Changes in nipple color
-Melasma (darkening of the skin)
-Mood swings and stress
Sometimes a woman who is pregnant may still experience some bleeding or spotting around the time of the expected period. This small amount of bleeding commonly that occurs at the time of the expected menstrual period may be implantation bleeding. This occurs when the fertilized egg attaches to the uterine wall. It’s important to remember that not all women will experience all of these symptoms or have the symptoms to the same degree.
An at home pregnancy can tell whether or not there is a pregnancy as early as the first day of the missed period, which is about two weeks after conception. You should schedule a doctors appointment and get a check up and pregnancy test as soon as possible if you think you might be pregnant.
Pregnancy tests are based upon measurement of the hormone which is only present in a woman when she is pregnant, human chorionic gonadotrophin, or hCG. This hormone is made after the egg is fertilized and its levels rise rapidly in early pregnancy. It acts to support progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain the pregnancy.
Unfortunately, things don’t always work as mother nature intended. Infertility effects many women for many different reasons. If you have any signs that things might not feel right or if you are having any issues with your menstrual periods, contact physician and have an exam.
Jane Carrasco has created a site where you can learn more about reproductive health and other women’s health issues. This article was originally posted at GoodLife4Women.
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Build a Better Future by Becoming More Flexible
By Donald Mitchell
In planning their businesses and careers, many people make the mistake of believing that the future will be almost exactly like the past. Applying 20-20 hindsight, they carefully prepare to avoid repeating mistakes that others have made.
Unfortunately, optimizing a solution to deal with past conditions often leaves them totally vulnerable when new conditions emerge.
Here’s an example of this kind of thinking. In consumer products, very few new offerings succeed in gaining enough consumer acceptance to be profitable.
Not wanting to launch unsuccessful new products, Procter & Gamble (P&G) used 20-20 hindsight to conclude that rigorous market testing by offering new products initially in a medium-sized city was a good way to avoid big failures.
That approach worked well for many decades, allowing P&G to outperform those who didn’t do such rigorous pre-launch evaluations.
Unfortunately, P&G eventually had difficulty in testing its new products. Competitors learned that poor results in such geographically limited test would lead P&G to delay introducing a new offering.
As a result, competitors would hit test markets with huge amounts of advertising, free samples, coupons, trade discounts, and new offerings that would never be used against a full-scale product introduction.
As a result P&G’s tests often failed, even for products that were ready to be successfully launched.
After two decades of slowed progress with new products due to such opposition, Procter & Gamble learned that its test-marketing program needed to be changed.
By making more extensive introductions following good research results without test markets, Procter & Gamble became much more successful in offering its innovations.
In the field of corporate strategy, being more flexible has been taken a step further: The most effective companies set their strategies based on the assumption that future conditions cannot be predicted and are likely to be much different from the past.
As a result, the most effective companies often sketch out a number of very extreme scenarios and identify strategies that will leave the organization much better off under any imaginable circumstance.
Naturally, these organizations still have to be agile in adapting to unanticipated changes when they occur. As an example, I’m sure that few companies considered strategies for dealing with the kind of worldwide credit crisis that emerged in the summer of 2008.
Even as the credit crisis was occurring, its eventual shape was unclear. Being fast on your feet was critical.
This corporate lesson applies to individual careers: The jobs that people prepared for while young may not be around by mid-career . . . or even next year. What will preparation for a flexible, successful career look like?
I recently corresponded with Dr. Dietrich Roeben, a 2004 Ph.D. graduate of Rushmore University, to find out what conclusions he has drawn from his success in moving across different management fields and countries in agile fashion to engage in fascinating new challenges.
Let me tell you a little about Dr. Roeben. He grew up in rural northern Germany where he enjoyed many of the outdoor activities that continue to bring him happiness.
After earning a technical undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and Management at TU Berlin, he graduated with an MBA degree at the University of Derby in the UK.
He next gained the equivalent of a Master of Science degree at his alma mater, TU Berlin. Four years later, he was admitted as a member of the Chartered Institute of Management (UK).
By building strong technical and management skills, Dr. Roeben ensured that he could fill a much wider variety of roles than people with only technical or management training.
That gave him a major advantage at the beginning of his career, an advantage that has continued to provide benefits.
Many German graduates intend to spend their careers working for export-oriented companies in Germany. Dr. Roeben took a different path: He exported himself and began working for a number of non-German companies in locations outside Germany.
These assignments took him as far afield as Nigeria. Naturally, it didn’t hurt in making these moves that Dr. Roeben is fluent in four languages (German, English, French, and Dutch).
By diversifying his cultural and language skills, he became even more valuable to potential employers.
While succeeding in these initial assignments, Dr. Roeben took as many courses as possible to gain more insights into his field and new industries.
In the process, he tested his learning by writing papers sharing his observations about the subjects that interest him.
These continuing education efforts helped make him aware of new trends and conditions that he and his employers needed to address. The papers also raised his visibility and credibility with potential employers.
The post-graduate learning and writing whet his appetite to write a doctoral dissertation about the strategic aspects of operations management. Unfortunately, he found that prospective employers didn’t want to provide him with any flexibility at work to allow for doctoral studies.
Taking a traditional full-time job, he decided to work on his doctorate while commuting and traveling, during the evenings, and on weekends.
During his doctoral program, he sought the career counsel of a friend who worked in recruitment for a large company. She reported that her company was looking for people who would be flexible and freely admit that only the next 12 months can be planned with any certainty.
That advice provided quite a jolt to Dr. Roeben because despite his career flexibility he was used to thinking in terms of continuity in his business planning!
Here are the conclusions he drew:
“Within the last decade the speed of corporate change has increased to levels that only a few employees can cope with. Careers that have been well planned end when once reputable companies can’t pay their bills anymore.
“Once ’safe’ jobs in previously stable industries are not safe anymore. I assume the person who can deal with these changes is the previously mentioned flexible person operating in an organization with a one-year planning horizon.”
If he wanted to work flexibly in locales around the world, it didn’t make sense to enroll in a Ph.D. program that had to be done in a specific location.
As a result, he chose an online program where he could have access to top professors online to advise him without needing to meet with them face-to-face.
Dr. Roeben was happily surprised by increasing his flexibility in ways that he didn’t expect after starting his doctoral studies.
Improved time management was the first new flexibility he gained: He learned that he could engage in his doctoral studies anywhere . . . on a train, on a plane, or sitting in a park near home.
Although sitting at a quiet desk is more productive than mobile studying, he learned that you can still get a lot accomplished wherever you are.
The second lesson was that technology could help him get more done. Loath to drag around a laptop computer during his extensive travels, Dr. Roeben discovered that a handheld PC was extremely helpful for taking notes, organizing his thinking, and writing.
Finding that this method helped his Ph.D. studies also led him to begin using the handheld PC for his business work.
Discovering that a more focused work style felt comfortable, Dr. Roeben began to yearn for opportunities to become an entrepreneur where he could move faster than in his big-company roles.
He also developed a desire to teach and plans to make both activities priorities. Expanding his experience and skills in those dimensions would give him even more career possibilities.
After earning his Ph.D. from Rushmore, Dr. Roeben realized that complacency is an enemy that has to be continually addressed: “We need to question the way we do things more often.”
Keeping his newly found focus, he quickly turned his dissertation into a management book, Planning and Controlling the Outsourcing and Maintenance of Technical Services (Books on Demand, GmbH, 2005).
In addition, he worked at two different jobs, one in Europe and one in the Middle East, that have given him the chance to develop new knowledge and skills. As a result, he has published papers that draw on these new experiences.
He is also looking for an opportunity to gain a teaching university appointment while holding down his day jobs.
What will the future hold for Dr. Roeben? Only time will tell, but his sensitivity to overcoming complacency, anticipating the need to change, focused work style, continual learning, and ability to make good use of technology will serve him well.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find him earning another doctorate in a different discipline.
What are the lessons for you? You prepare for your career differently. In doing so, you should assume:
1. you won’t be working for your current employer a year from now.
2. you won’t be doing your current type of work five years from now.
3. that your best job opportunities are not in the country where you live now.
4. that you need to learn new skills that you haven’t been introduced to yet.
5. that your job prospects will depend on your becoming a world-class authority in some important area that you don’t yet know about.
I wish you well as you begin to increase your flexibility to gain from these new perspectives.
Donald W. Mitchell is a professor at Rushmore University, an online school, where he teaches how to create flexible strategies for businesses and nonprofit organizations. For more information about ways to engage in fruitful lifelong learning at Rushmore to increase your effectiveness and improve your career, visit
http://www.rushmore.edu
Ms Adult Education College (mind teasers)
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The student population in an adult education program is mostly made up of people with families wives and kids. A lot of them also have jobs or some other sources of livelihood; that is how they pay for the program.
There a lot yet to learn in this world that hasn’t even been explored yet. However much you know, you can always learn more. Even though you are past your youth, you could still find reason to continue with your studies. A lot of adults even do it already and this ends up improving their lots in life. The same can apply to you.
Some wonder if the level of education they have is not sufficient for the kind of lives theyd love to live. Well, it might be as such depending on perspective, but as an adult, you can still do something about it. Just look for programs in lots of institutions that befit your career and start one. In just few years, you will be surprised how your life will improve.
Some companies never hire you if you don’t have at least a diploma. Sometimes also, it’s about the promotion. But even while you work you can do some adult education to improve your chances. You don’t have to sit down and accept the setback as your fate in life.
Any type of schooling you have to do after you have become an adult is adult education. Dont ever let anybody tell you different. And if there are people around you who have done it before or are still doing it, so can you. And why not? It only makes you better, doesnt it?
To be a certified accountant, you have got to write some funny professional examinations. That doesn’t come easy when you have just been through college and all you want to do is get a job. But if it means something to you, you should. Even though you have become an adult.
Adult education is a subject many adults do not want to consider because of the trouble with having to sit and do all that studying at this point in their lives. It might please them to know that these programs are specifically designed with them in mind. Whatever questions they might have, someone certainly has the answers to them.
Adult education includes literacy training for those who are yet to get it. However if you are already literate up to a certain extent, you could decide to go further. And sometimes, adult education is not about qualifications or capacity; merely about feeling good about yourself.
You can commence your professional education with an adult program. Its always easier than thought of. Many dont do it because of the fear and the alleged shame of studying at an advanced age. This is a wrong notion. Such fears and shame disappear immediately you commence an adult education program.
The type of adult education program you sign up for is entirely up to you. Almost every institution you find around you has something especially tailored for adults. On the other hand there are schools whose programs are exclusively for grownups; take your pick.
The activities of an adult education system may be focused on single needs such as reading and writing. On another front, it could be geared more towards the professional. Anyone interested needs to find some niche into which they fit so that they can maximize their potentials.
You might not have thought of this, but it is difficult to get a grown man or woman to come sit down in a classroom full of people when there are bills to pay. Those who are able to really deserve the kudos. They are smart enough to look beyond the present to a future that’s rich, after getting their adult degrees.
In the United States of America, the first big time adult education program in record was that founded by one Mr. Josiah Holbrook in Massachusetts back in the 19th century. Truth be told, it was little more than a spatter of local adults who wanted to make a statement. Well, good thing they did. Much of the advancements realized in adult education today may well be credited to their honor.
More general educational needs can be found in general schools, colleges and institutions. When you sign up for adult education, you are making a statement that you are serious minded person intent on doing something positive with the years you have left in the world. Good for you.
A lot of adults can still study in their spare time. Not that they are likely to have a lot of those, in between working and providing for their families, getting pregnant and raising babies. However what must be done must be done, and if pushing it through is what adult education takes, then so be it.
The prototype that many adult education institutions and programs are based on today is 1874s Chautauqua movement. A place for Christians who wanted to learn at first, it became a model summer training scheme that many still look up to today. By ‘76 it was perhaps the most popular such program that America knew at the time, with universities springing up, offering extension programs that brought education directly to the public.
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Do We Need A Parentig Plan? (games)
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Parenting can be hard enough without a solid parenting plan to help guide you through some of the potential pitfalls. Without a solid plan, your parenting skills may be put to the test more than you wish they would be and you may wind up making some awkward decisions that could greatly affect your family. With a comprehensive plan for parenting and raising your family, however, you can be a little more comfortable and a lot more prepared when it comes to raising your children.
Natural parenting is one styles of parenting that is often supported by a parenting plan. Natural parenting is based upon the parenting plan that essentially references no concrete plan. That is to say that the plan involved with natural parenting defers parenting to its most instinctual basis and offers parenting as per the needs in the child-to-parent relationship. Natural parenting is said to be beneficial to the child in that it puts the parent in direct tune with the needs of the child and enables the child to learn to “speak for itself” in terms of what it needs.
Other people use a more family-integrated parenting plan. This plan integrates extended family into the parenting mix, adding uncles and aunts and grandparents to create an entire “squad” of people that parent the child. This may also sometimes reference “crowded house syndrome” and may make the child feel overwhelmed with different vocal parents. The other aspect to consider in terms of family parenting is that it offers a solidified network of support and compassion at the outset and provides family nurturing in as direct a form as possible.
Attachment parenting is a parenting plan that many mothers integrate immediately after birth. This is a type of parenting plan that invokes the notion of not leaving the physical proximity of the infant and enabling for an attachment bond to be formed. There are many medical aspects that both support this style of parenting and condemn it. The supportive aspect is that it introduces the child to parental love and companionship on a consistent basis. The negative aspect of attachment parenting can be, of course, that the attachment may be pushed too far into the child’s lifetime and the attachment may never be broken regardless of the age of the child.
Choosing a parenting plan is important because it must reflect the type of child that is present in your life. There is no absolute in terms of a parenting plans; you may find that you select a variance of each type of parenting plan in order to create your own basis for a path on which to raise your family. Regardless of the course of action you choose, the best thing you can do for your family is raise them in a loving and compassionate home with ample room for growth and challenges.
Without a good parenting plan, your job can become extremely complicated and can offer you little respite in terms of working with your children.
There are many things in life that can be taken for granted, but parenting is certainly not one of them. People we care most about deserve our full attention. You can find out more interesting information on family and home at our site.
College and Higher Education Grants for Women
By Charles Bretz
Today, the situation is such that only a few women students out of the whole lot are actually able to fulfill their dreams with respect to college education.
It’s a known fact that only the rich sections of the society can have any chance at all of getting higher education. Unfortunately, The number of such rich and the famous people in the society are very less. The price of any of the private 4-year colleges on an average is around $20000/academic year.
Just try dividing this figure in to half. You would then have an average tuition with public university. Further, a formidable tuition can be obtained at the community college by paying even half of the above half.
College grants are being devised with the purpose of making educational funds as minimum as possible, available to monetarily needy women students for helping in defraying the price of college education. The students going on to seek the money provide through grant might start by having searched for the grants by subject-specific and student-type grants.
Grants-entirely different from student loans and scholarships
Grants are discretely different from student loans as well as scholarships such that they are nothing but free gift amount. Hence, unlike the student loans which ought to be repaid- primarily requirement-based, in comparison with conventionally merit-based scholarships.
Grant categories
Grants might be divided in to the searchable categories including student-specific, degree level, minority, and subject-specific.
Common sources
Common sources in terms of grant funding include state and Federal governments, universities and colleges, private and public organizations. As majority of the recipients of grants are either monetarily impaired or disadvantaged by some or the other means, there’re several grants that are designed especially for the minorities, along with low-income students.
Federal grants
Federal government has been putting additional money in to hands of the college students which was never to be seen before. Most of impetus behind all this is No Child Left Behind Act.
These measures help in the assurance that more and more primary as well as secondary schools have to be held accountable for ensuring that kids get education and attention that they deserve, that too, without any prejudices. In other words, much of the high-school students have been earning diplomas.
There are more students standing a chance to attend college when proper social and financial resources have been made available for them, with the educators having experience and know-how of guiding them towards right choices regarding career and academics.
There are certain federal grant programs offering lakhs of students the essential assistance for making college a monetary reality. These grants can be availed of by women as well.
Women-specific grants
Since ages, women have been disregarded on majority of college campuses. Several educators have a tendency of arguing that women aren’t as active on coeducational campus as on women-oriented campus. Private colleges for women are continuing to thrive.
The credit of this survival should go to generosity on the part of innovative curricula, corps of the alumnae, and the expanded programs like athletics which round out an entire educational experience.
Grant programs specifically designed for women perform the task of promoting participation of theirs in the underrepresented programs of graduation like business, mathematics, and sciences.
Charles Bretz has been associated with Government Grants as an advisor and consultant. To find out more on how to receive Free Government Grants visit Government Grants USA. Click Here
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Higher Education Grants For Women
By Charles Bretz
The U.S. Government focuses mainly on higher education and hence, the college grants for women are a very famous proposition.
Women who are slightly underprivileged or wish to pursue studies that exceed their budget can opt for the college grants. These grants can be issued for various streams like law, science, arts, or commerce etc.
Financial aid being available at the right time during your college life is a very crucial thing. College grants may not be essentially to pursue the course; it can even be for personal expenditure that is expected during the course period.
Women are the epicenter
U.S. Government has realized the untapped potential that is vested in the womanhood and hence, is trying to polish and nurture it by providing grants for higher education.
The career course that you select needs to fall under certain industry-specific discipline. Women are said to have developed, but when you get down to critical survey, you realize that their energy and knowledge isnt still being given the right respect.
Surveys have shown that number of men pursuing their post- graduate any day outdoes the number of women doing it. The traditional barriers of tending a family are still a hurdle in the way of complete exploitation of the women power.
Minority problems with regard to women are even worse. The imbalance in the society is hampering its overall development and hence, the Government has come up with the generous college grants for women.
Womens College the way to go
The U.S. Government has started promoting the cause of womens colleges as they are helping the womanhood grow in all possible ways.
All types of streams can be opted for by taking grants and getting admitted into the womens colleges. Some grants are need-based and the rest of the college grants for women are merit-based. The private colleges offer almost 40% financial aids to women and it is truly a sign of greater progress.
Types of College Grants for Women
College Grants for Economically Challenged Women
Many colleges offer these grants for the people who have the caliber but do not have the money to support their education. Helping such people is a great step in the direction of overall development of the society.
College Grants for Women pursuing underrepresented courses
The society has very seriously focused on the conventional careers like law, medicine, science etc. and the unconventional or non main-stream courses were meant only for the men.
Anyhow, this scheme is specifically for the women who wish to break the mere societal barriers and move on in an altogether different world. Women who are supported by grants are encouraged to pursue their interest as their careers.
College Grants for Single Mothers and Women who are battered
Many women are not able to continue their education as they have to take care of their family single-handedly due to various reasons. There are single mothers and many women are leading a wayward life after facing domestic violence. To support the education of such women, government offers special grants.
Charles Bretz has been associated with Government Grants as an advisor and consultant. To find out more on how to receive Free Government Grants visit Government Grants USA. Click Here
