

More recently, the median percent of patients with HAPU II+ in adult acute care for 268 participating hospitals (including the 215 hospitals in this study) decreased from 3.3 percent in 2007 to 0. The policy does not apply to the entire exhibit, but to a “behind-the-scenes” tour offered November 5. Significant reductions in HAPU and HAPU II+ occurred from 2003 to 2010 in 78 hospitals drawn from the same registry participants (Stotts et al. “Pregnant women are sacred and the policy is in place to protect women from these objects.”


This damage is called Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) or Fetal Alcohol Effects or (FAE). Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause brain damage to your baby, and that damage is permanent. She said there was a belief that each taonga had its own wairua, or spirit, inside it. When you are pregnant, alcohol that you drink is carried by your bloodstream through the placenta to your baby. That rule is in place with consideration for both the safety of the taonga and the women,” Keig said. “There are items within that collection that have been used in sacred rituals. Te Papa spokeswoman Jane Keig said the policy was in place because of Maori beliefs surrounding the taonga Maori collection included in the tour. Female visitors to Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand) are faced with a difficult moral dilemma regarding the taonga Maori collection included in an upcoming tour.Īn invitation for regional museum staff to go on a behind-the-scenes tour of some of Te Papa’s collections included the condition that “ wahine who are either hapu or mate wahine ” were unable to attend.
