Question

Patient is a 29-year-old female at her 38 weeks gestation admitted with contractions. Reports contraction every 5 minutes starting at 5 am and increasing to every 2-3 minutes. Very painful. Patient denies LOF (elective abortion), DFM (Maternal perception of decreased fetal movement). She is a G4P0A2 L1.)

What are the examples of cultural influences(Patient was a black woman, had her sister with her during labor and had a 3 year old girl at home) and also the past medical history about this patient?

Answer 1

Cultural influences plays major role in pregnancy. People have different beliefs . Many people avoid eating certain kind of food in pregnancy. At term, female have choice of antenatal clinic , female doctor or midwife for delivery . It also includes choice of delivery either c-section or normal delivery and it depends also on the community views in which female lives . Health care worker attention to pregnant female is one of the major factor as they have to handle lot of pregnanat women . Language barrier also takes part in cultural influences .

This patient past medical history includes G4P0A2L1 in which there is two abortion which is already a high risk pregnancy and usually associated with caesarean section delivery . This 29 year old female patient has 4 gravida . 2 abortion and 1 living girl child.