HW#41 - Independent Research

The benefits of having a hospital birth and how it is meant to be as comfortable as possible for the mother as well as the birth process more easy. They are able to have medical attention at all times at the same time privacy with their loved ones. The mothers are given medicine to ease the pain of the birth process. There are parental classes for the parent to be as well to know what to do. There are many traditional births provided.

http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/doctor/birth_centers_hospitals.html

Different births around the world very different from society today. It is very ritual and traditional. Some countries drink certain things or avoid contact with their body. This is uncalled in the U.S. Most births are in the hospitals in two ways natural or c-section. There are a lot of rules in every other country relating to the baby and the mother. They have to follow the rules of the country.

http://www.midwiferytoday.com/enews/enews0241.asp

There are more benefits on having home births than negativity. It leans more towards having birth at home than hospitals. Some of the benefits of home births are you can control the experience and there is no separation between the mother and the child. Some of the cons are complications and expenses such as insurance.

http://www.unhinderedliving.com/home.html

Looking at statistics, minorities have had more abortions compared to white people. As the years have gone by the abortion rates have gone down. It used to be a very high percent. It says that not all contraceptive use has not always been good. The basics of safe sex and how many woman have had abortions the first 12 weeks and the percentages.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

There are a lot of babies being in countries like Africa compared to Asia and Europe. The lowest one was Hong Kong with 7.37 babies. I thought the U.S would have a high percentage of birth rates and they were only 14.18. The highest number was 49.62 which was in Nigeria. I think depending where you live and economic status weights out the baby status. For example, compared to the U.S its nothing like Nigeria.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_bir_rat-people-birth-rate

Looking at the research i collected, i might advertise how home births are better than hospital births and compared them to other births in other countries and see the benefits of both different birth experiences. I looked up different things because i wasnt exactly sure what i wanted to do for this project so i researched a little bit of everything. I think it would interesting to see how our lifestyle in the United States with the process of having a child comparing to other countries and see if it is actually beneficial to them and if we should try these techniques. Im going to look at the rates of other countries of their "home births" possible and our home births too. In our country it always seem home birth is the best option and everywhere else it seems like thats all they have no hospitals or nothing.

HW#40 - Insights from Book - Part 3

Hey- thanks for writing on the birth history and how it has come a long way since the ancient years. I found it very intriguing and enjoyed it as well. Your overall perpective of birth on how there were very dangerous procedures people did to give birth using different tools and methods epecially cesurans which me see a bigger picture on giving birth. I didnt know how severe it was to have a baby and it made me think twice about c-sections. In the last third of the book you focused on the father's perpective or place in birth,the aftermath of the birth and suming up the whole book.

1.) In other cultures, fathers have a specific role-one very simliar to the mother's. Page.210

2.)Throughout history, the immediate postpartum period has been as much as victim of fahsion and misconception as has labor and birth. Page 215

3.)Why does it seem most of the things talked about leads to death or something bad?

Given that aim, and your book, the best advice I would give for a 2nd edition of the text would be, more stories from real life people than just the history and interviews that could be taken place from others. But I don't want you to feel like I'm criticizing. I appreciate the immense amount of labor you dedicated to this important issue and particularly for making me think about c-sections and the process of labor and how are so many things that could happen & different techniques being used. In fact, I'm likely to do give natural birth rather than c-section differently as a result of your book." The author replies, "Thanks! Talking to you gives me hope about our future as a society!"

HW#39 - Insights from Book - Part 2

Cassidy, Tina. Birth. NY,NY: Grove Press, 2006. Print.

The book has taught me about Cesarean sections and where importantly a part of history where it became. It also was talking about how C-Sections are the safest procedures to have done when having babies. Just like the movie they talked about how lots of celebrities such as Posh had her babies to work around her husbands schedule and how they make it popular for everybody else. It was talking about how the some woman given drugs they didnt ask for and for unneccesary c-sections that did not need to happen and then end up killing their baby. Interesting aspects i found was when they were talking about taking the baby's limbs out onee by one i thought that it was sad and pretty gross it was called a craniotomy.(Pg.104) Another thing was how one doctor took out the reproductive glans of one patient and how they would just tear up their insides.(pg.113) One story that caught my eye was the woman with Cancer and she had lost a limb and they in the end she died and so did her child too. It said that she decided to have a c-section but later changed her mind and then the family ended up suing the hospital.(Pg.121) I liked the fact that they were talking about how a man by the name of William Smellie who taught men how to deliver babies. It was very strange, they didnt have no actual experience and they would dress up as woman in disguise.(pg.135) The unsusual labor positions. (pg.181) I researched c-sections vs.natural births and it was saying that risks are much higher for c-sections and can cause emotional damage as well as physical. Women with c-sections are more likely want to give birth again. There are much more risks with c-sections than natural birth. http://www.naturalbirthandbabycare.com/vaginal-birth.html

HW#38 - Insights from pregnancy & birth book - part 1

The book is organized in time periods. It starts out from ancient times to the 1900's. The author talks about a lot of different women in each time period relating to there birth story and how its changed over time. The major question that is being asked i believe is how our system of birth and pregnancy has evolved over a course of millions of years. From my point of view, i think that this is a interesting questiom because i was particularly wondering how women/other living things give birth compared in other places and time periods. The book has been very engaging so far and i enjoy it. The first 100 pages of the book was talking about the woman's body and how their pelvis are narrow and how painful it has been to give birth. It also talks about thw midwifery history and many famous women have helped with giving birth. I believe that midwives deserve a lot of recongition. Rather than using so much technology with birth i believe it should be natural. It true that we are possibly making the giving birth process worse instead of improving. She uses a lot of statistics about the birth epidemic and lot of historic facts.

Hw#37-Comments

Bianca, I enjoyed reading your post. I liked how you talked about the women's appearance and how they responded answering your questions. One part stood out to me when you talked about your mother about the pain she was having which brought her closer to you in the womb and her starting a new life with a new child. I like how you mention that having a child could possibly bring family together because I think that happens with my family often. We have kids and then we become closer as a whole and forget the other negativity in our life but focus on the baby. Keep up the good work, I look forward to reading more.

Abdul, Wow I thought all three of your stories were very touching. I enjoyed all of them. I like how each of them told a different story from different views within your family. I like how you talked about your mom having to raise a child all on her own. She is a strong woman. I thought it was funny when she said that she missed the attention she got when she was pregnant. In your second story I like how bascially it was the complete opposite and how both the mother and the father put both equal efforts which I believe how it should be. The mother shouldn't have to go through that alone. The third story about your aunt was intriguing I never heard a story like that before. Its unlikely you hear something like this often. I liked how you said "she made a full recovery and went out to successfully give birth 2 years after." That's is very tough but she was able to make it throught it.

Young Person (Jenny),
Leah,I thought your post was cool. I liked how you talked about your sister's birth compared to your birth. You can tell the differences your mom did from before to now. My favorite lines were when you said your mom "I was young and it was a learning experience". She was learning about her own pregnancy as everything was coming along. I didn't think about pregnancy before. It kind makes me want to know about my birth.