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Classmates Discussion S.W.

This was a very informative chapter! The older I get and the more I have friends that have children and think about the process of creating a baby, I am amazed with the human body! It is incredible that the body of a woman can create a person and contain everything the child needs from conception to even after the child is born! I've never had children, but I could only imagine how amazing it must be. I would have to change a lot about my life if I did have one though, especially my stress levels, ha! I would really have to make sure I was decreasing my adrenal levels, which would probably be harder for me than not eating foods that could be a risk. I would also have to stop taking headache medication too, which would be difficult, but worth it, I'm sure. On the note of having children, I do agree with what it said about more and more people deciding to wait to have children until they're older. I've been noticing this as well and, just because of where we are today in our country, I think it's smart. Of course, I don't judge those that have children early. I, myself, was one of those people when I was younger, but I have since changed my mind about that and can definitely see the benefit to having a them later in life after establishing a career. Not only that, but ensuring you have a loyal partner that will help equally in the relationship and child rearing (if that's what you want). This has been a huge factor in my own life. If I ever did decide to have children, I would want to make sure (as much as I can) that my children will be raised in a healthy household. That is very important to me!

After hearing all the complications that can go on from pregnancy, I guess it's a little surprising we have so many healthy births, especially with all the things these days that give us cancer and sicknesses. The mortality rate is pretty high too (6.7% of 1,000 births)! I also couldn't imagine having to go through the term of your pregnancy knowing that your child is stillborn or having something happen to your child while delivering! How incredibly sad. One of my sisters had twins and had to go into early delivery, which is normal for twins, but within the whole process, one of them almost died (why it was an emergency c-section) and then they had to be in the NICU for several months since they were only about 3 pounds when they were born. Then the other one almost died while in the NICU. It was just awful. I'm happy to report they are both healthy and happy, but it was so scary there for a while.

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Classmates Discussion B.F.

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This chapter starts off with speaking about how humans share similarities and differences. This reminds me of when I was watching television recently and a woman who had written a children's book about human differences stated that humans are 99% the same, making us more alike than different. I just found it very interesting and something that goes along with this chapter.

The most interesting things to me regarding this chapter pertained to the sections that spoke about behavior, because I am very interested in things pertaining to behavior. I was very surprised to know that a child's temperament is mostly hereditary. I did not know that. I had previously attributed temperament largely to social factors and to how one is raised, assuming that to be the case. I wonder if many others assume that to be the case. What did you all previously think about temperament?

Similarly, I was also a bit surprised to find out just how much heredity affects intelligence. I believe I somewhat knew it, but without quite thinking about it, attributing intelligence more to a thing of chance. However, that "chance" is related to heredity. I find it truly amazing just how much our genes influence who we are.

In addition to these things, I also enjoyed reading about the different stages of pregnancy and childbirth, learning things I had never known before. The text spoke also about post-partum depression. I know that post-partum depression has been spoken about quite a bit recently in the news, because there have been several celebrities who have struggled with it. Because so many struggle with this, I believe that it is a good thing that there has been more light shed on it in recent years. It helps women to not feel as ashamed for struggling with this and maybe helps them to feel more okay reaching out for help.

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Cinelli, E. (2020, December 15). Is intelligence inherited? A genetic explanation.

FamilyEducation. https://www.familyeducation.com/pregnancy/health/is-intelligence-

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Plomin, R., & Deary, I. J. (2014). Genetics and intelligence differences: Five special

findings. Molecular Psychiatry, 20(1), 98-108. https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2014.105