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Welcoming new life under lockdown:Exploring the experiences of first-time mothers who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore how firstâtime mothers in the UK experienced new parenthood during the coronavirus (COVIDâ19) pandemic. DESIGN: This study used a crossâsectional exploratory, qualitative interview design. METHODS: Semiâstructured interviews were conducted with ten firstâtime mothers who had given birth since COVIDâ19 was declared as a pandemic. Verbatim transcripts were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. RESULT: Experiences of new, firstâtime mothers during the COVIDâ19 pandemic were organized around two themes. First, new mothers felt an overwhelming sense of responsibility for their baby which was heightened by the pandemic. The challenge of meeting this responsibility was heightened in the context of societal expectations to do the ârightâ thing and uncertainty and distrust around official guidance about COVIDâ19. Secondly, the expected transition into motherhood was altered by the pandemic. Disruption to the birthing experience, an inability to connect with close friends and family, and limited healthcare support was perceived to be detrimental. However, altered social expectations and the increased presence of the partner were perceived as positives. CONCLUSION: Many of the common challenges experienced by new, firstâtime mothers have been amplified by the COVIDâ19 pandemic. Public policy and scientific research must target this group in order to protect this population from the negative impact of the remaining COVIDâ19 pandemic and any future pandemics
ABA signalling: A messenger's FIERY fate
AbstractThere is considerable circumstantial evidence that the Ca2+-mobilizing second messenger IP3 is involved in plant responses to the drought hormone abscisic acid. More direct evidence for this has now come from studies in which endogenous IP3 levels have been manipulated in plants
Northern Ireland Alcohol and Drug Alliance: Impacts of COVID-19 on People Who Use Services and Providers. Executive Summary
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The cycle must stop
Reports in recent years of thousands of Indians and Ladinos slaughtered in Guatemala and tens of thousands more fleeing their homes to refugee camps have provoked no outcry in the U.S. Popular resistance to the oppressive military regime is growing, yet President Reagan will ask to renew aid for the nation most notorious for human rights violations. This request should be denied and all support for this regime ended. The reasons should be clear when the Guatemala story is understood
Northern Ireland Alcohol and Drug Alliance: Impacts of COVID-19 on People Who Use Services and Providers
How the stomate got his pore : very long chain fatty acids and a structural cell wall protein sculpt the guard cell outer cuticular ledge
Searching for Social Capital in U.S. Microenterprise Development Programs
This paper focuses on the claims and efforts of U.S. microenterprise development programs (MDPs) to build social capital among poor and low income entrepreneurs. MDPs offer business training and lending services to individuals operating very small businesses (with five or fewer employees and less than $20,000 in start-up capital). Advocates suggest that MDPs help promote economic development by building social capital defined as networks among small entrepreneurs and between entrepreneurs and their larger community. We begin our paper with a short review of the varied definitions and claims about the role of social capital in promoting civic and economic empowerment. Then, drawing on interviews with practitionersf rom 50 programs, we examine the nature and extent of social capital building in U.S. MDPs. We consider the degree to which our sample MDPs directly promoted networks among clients, and between clients and individuals/organiZationso utside the program. More than half of the programs tried to network clients with each other, but only afew programs focused on building networks between clients and the larger community. From a critical perspective, we discuss more expanded notions of social capital building in poor communities and the barriers to their implementation
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