Luwana Marts Case Summary

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A case of Luwana Marts involved a teenage girl named Maggie. In the article written by Boo (2006) Luwana says, Maggie had contracted hepatitis B and did not receive treatment while pregnant, because she was attending to her sick mother. During her pregnancy, she suffered from lack of nutrition and depression. Due to Maggie not being treated for hepatitis B, she passed it on to her baby girl Maia. In Maggie’s case, her child is at risk for impaired neurological development due to maternal nutrition, an infectious disease, emotional stress, and poverty. When a woman is pregnant, she needs to eat for two. According to Berk (2014), when a mother eats she provides nutrients for her baby to grow. Maggie did not take care of herself physically as

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