HW#6
Cover Sheet #1:
Date you found the resource: September 16, 2009
Name of the resouce/web page: A woman's age and high risk pregnancy/babymed.com
Journal: N/A
Book: N/A
Web site/blog title: babymed.com
Author: Anonymous
Editor:N/A
Publisher and place of publication: unknown
owner/webmaster: unknown
date of publication/posting on the web: December 2005
Medium of publication: internet blog
Name of library:N/A
Name of database/search engine: google
URL: Http://babymed.com/Blog/Blog.aspx?9
Summary: You can have a healthy pregnancy as an older women, but you should be aware of the risk understand the complications that may arise.
Usefulness: this source gives a positive outlook toward being an older mother, but at the same time is very honest regarding the risks.
Copies: printed copy, notes in my blog
Credibility: The author is anonymous; however, the website is reputable. The article was written to provide information. The audience is for mother's or expectant mother's or women that are thinking about becoming mothers.
Response: This source tells me that pregnancy complications increase with the mother's age. This source tells similar facts as my others, but it also gives women some hope.
Validity: This article is very logical and consistant with other sources and with its research and statistics.
Cover Sheet #2:
Date you found the source: September 20, 2009
Name of the resource/article/book chapter/web page/blog entry: Journal of women's health volume 17, Pregnancy late in life: a hospital-based study of birth outcomes.
Journal: journal of women's health volume 17, number 6, pgs 965-970
Book:N/A
Web site/blog title: academic search premier
Author: Ali Delpisheh, Ph.D., Loretta Brabin, Ph.D., Eman Attia, M.D., And Bernard J. Brabin FRCP(C)
Editor: N/A
Publisher and place of publication: unknown
Owner/Webmaster of the web site: unknown
Date of publication/copyright/ posting to the web:05/14/2008
Medium of publication: journal of women's health via the internet
Name of Library: Mcc (online resources)
Name of database/search engine: Academic Search Premier
URL:??
Summary: hospital-based study stating that pregnancy in older women is associated with adverse birth outcomes.
Usefulness: The statistics and graphs given in the article will be very helpful in explaining the findings of my research.
Copies: Printed copy/notes in my blog
Credibility: The authors are all in the medical proffession and have Ph.D's. The purpose of this article are to inform readers of the increased risk of have a baby after the age of 35. The audience is doctors and parents or couples considering becoming parents.
Response: This research answers my question stating that advanced maternal age is the cause of low birth weights and preterm births. This source is one of the most detailed and well written that I have found in terms of statistics.
Validity: This source is very logical, it states research and statistics given from that research, as well as graphs to help readers understand the information.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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i should have looked at this post before i did this assignment, would have saved me a headache. i was so worried about not having an answer for everything, or leaving something blank. glad to see that its okay. thanks for doing enough posts for me to get in my 4 replies lol!
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