Why is it that religion plays such a big factor in the care of the dead? I think that the reason why is because we all want that sense of security in that our loved ones will be looked after and our religions make us follow the traditions of caring for the dead. Things such as cleansing the body and preparing it.
I also am curious as to what spiritual feelings the morticians and funeral directors get out of seeing the dead in multiple states. I feel that it brings them a sense of peace and they do not see pain in death.
I wonder why we in america choose to isolate our dead in sites that are gated from the public and that are very isolated from us. When my aunt passed away we drove for about an hour and a half to see her and I feel that this is done on purpose because death is scary and people do not want to see it around while they are driving but in other countries, the dead are so close to the living that it isn't a big deal and it seems to bring peace to the families who mourn. I know that I wish I could see my aunt more often and I would feel more connected to her if I did but its like in america nobody wants us to see the dead even if it is our own families which is why we tend to forget about them so easily.
I am curious as to the main process of cleaning and preparing the bodies for viewing. I know that in america they drain the blood out of the body and fill it with a preservative which keeps the body in a wax like state for a temprary time so they don't decompose. How is our way of preparing the dead different from other countries.
I wonder why my mother always has these dreams about people who have died. I wonder how she deals with it because I know I wouldn't be able to. Why does my mom always have these images and experience these spiritual things when she sleeps? I noticed that in my family my mom has always been right about family. For example the night my uncle passed away my mom rushed me to the hospital with her because the night befor she said that she had a dream that the day we were going to visit him was going to be his last day alive. Sure enough as soon as he saw all of us one by one at his bedside, (me being the last one with him) he passed away. The hardest part was that it was me and him and he looked at me straight in my eyes and he passed away. I know that once I got up and took a few steps away it struck me that he was no longer here. As soon as I got in the elevator I broke down yelling and crying because my uncle just died right in front of my eyes iliterally. That night though we all gathered in the hospital and we all managed to smile and go home as if he was still with us and I felt as if he was. This is why I believe that nobody ever really dies and that we all live on as a form of energy and my family thinks the same things so its interesting to see how in my family we believe that but some others don't. I feel that I am going to have a lot that I will want to explore during this unit because I really believe that what I know about caring for the dead now is not even a percent of what I should know.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
hw 45 reply to comment
Rigel. Thank you for taking the time to write a very detailed blog. I agree with your point that people are naive about their situations and this is what I uncovered throughout the project. Also the point about summer school helped me understand more because yes in summer school there were a few pregnant teenagers mostly latin and yes they did fit a stereotype if not many of them. To answer your question, I feel that latin women do not have kids when they are most knowledgeable meaning at a yonger age. I feel that they have kids because they force themselves to be significant and this is one way to do it. I feel that it is an attention thing but also a situational thing. Sometimes these teens get caught up and they feel its cute to be pregnant and feeling woozy in every class, but to me I find it upsetting because they seem to degrade a whole culture and that makes me feel like latin women have no hope. This is just the way I feel about things like teen pregnancy. Thank you for your comments.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Hw 44 comments
Luz, I enjoyed reading your post. The way that you spoke about how us as adults must care for those in need was very significant. No matter if the child wasn't your brother, the way you guys still took care of him showed me that it does take a village to raise a baby and you guys taking him in to your life to help raise him is very crucial and I feel that Ryan learned while being surrounded with family. I also enjoyed your post because I can relate to it because I was the baby who would always be in other peoples homes while my mom worked and I learned a lot about my family because I was surrounded by many people at one time. Overall great post and project.
Rigel, I liked your project and enjoyed listening to your presentation. You really touched on the topic of single mothers and how many single mothers out there raise their children differently yet they are all connected. I liked how you spoke about family values and that the man in the relationship I distracted from those values and you also supported that with contesting it to 1960's tradition of family. Overall I liked your project because you said you were raised by mostly women and your mother also like I was and I feel that it is important to respect mothers for sacrificing so mich especially when the other half of the childs life isn't there to help. One suggestion is to maybe focus more on the single mother. I felt that you spoke well about birth and how women do birth but I feel that ur topic was more about single mothers. Great project either way .
Matt, I thought your letter was very powerful and thought provoking. The way you spoke about women in poverty raising children and how it isn't right that there are so many poverty stricken mothers was very unique because we really didn't cover this topic but I'm glad you did. I enjoyed reading the statistics in your letter because they were something that sparks amazement or shock in people. Overall great project. A suggestion I have is that maybe for another project like this you should make a letter or maybe create a law and go in depth with it. Overall great post.
Rigel, I liked your project and enjoyed listening to your presentation. You really touched on the topic of single mothers and how many single mothers out there raise their children differently yet they are all connected. I liked how you spoke about family values and that the man in the relationship I distracted from those values and you also supported that with contesting it to 1960's tradition of family. Overall I liked your project because you said you were raised by mostly women and your mother also like I was and I feel that it is important to respect mothers for sacrificing so mich especially when the other half of the childs life isn't there to help. One suggestion is to maybe focus more on the single mother. I felt that you spoke well about birth and how women do birth but I feel that ur topic was more about single mothers. Great project either way .
Matt, I thought your letter was very powerful and thought provoking. The way you spoke about women in poverty raising children and how it isn't right that there are so many poverty stricken mothers was very unique because we really didn't cover this topic but I'm glad you did. I enjoyed reading the statistics in your letter because they were something that sparks amazement or shock in people. Overall great project. A suggestion I have is that maybe for another project like this you should make a letter or maybe create a law and go in depth with it. Overall great post.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
hw 42 pregnancy and birth project
so why do we do it? Why is it that we choose tho go to hospitals instead of having midwives. Do we as Americans feel safer being in institutions rather than being in the hands of one woman who uses no special tools. Midwives have been around for many years, but why have they not been publicized more as a safer alternative to hospitals? I feel that as Americans we choose hospitals because they are all we know. We only go to hospitals for anything that involves crises in our lives. Whether we are hurt or giving birth. Even though midwives provide mothers to be with a very interesting birthing experience that may hurt or be orgasmic, we choose to be surrounded by men and women in gloves and masks ripping babies out of the ones we love. WE are so use to this because we feel security for those moments when we feel unsafe.
In America we see birth asa an experience that is too scary because of the fact that a life is coming out of someone and it is scary for some What if one cannot afford a a hospital, what do we do? It is hard to make decisions but i feel that it is as easy as asking yourself if you are getting a midwife for yourself or for the baby. Sometimes i feel that a person wants to go to a hospital because we want to feel ok for ourselves first and then the baby. Also the same thing with a midwife but that may be so that the baby is ok and then you come next. People view midwifery as dangerous and unsafe because we feel that a women coming to help you in stretching and other exercises are bad. Even though they are trained almost as much as doctors are. I want to look at the idea of midwives through latin perspective and how midwifery is a taboo for us.
In my family nobody i know of has ever given birth by a midwife. I asked my mother why and she said because she never knew about a midwife. She first got pregnant at the age of 18 and she really had no idea what to do so the traditional hospital birth was the only option she had. As for my brother and I, we were born the same way, through a hospital. My family doesn't belive in midwifery birthing because it seems akward to us. We dont like the idea that a woman comes to our home and helps us out, it just seems weird and unecessary. I feel that in American society hospitals are the route to go because a hospital has the security in case things go wrong where it can be fixed. Also because hospital births are very common, almost as common as seeing a Mcdonalds within walking distance of us. Midwifery on teh other hand is seen as strange and funny to us. I asked my Aunt who is currently pregnant and asked her if she would ever think about getting a midwife and she said," haha are you crazy, how do i look stretching my fat belly in front of chris?" She has another son and she wouldnt want a midwife because her family will see her doing these things and think she is weird. Also she has this idea where something may go wrong. If something went wrong like we saw in the cnn clip, i dont think my aunt would be able to handle it, conisdering what happend last year. On wham.com i read an artical fdetailing three reasons why having a midwife was not good. It stated that midwives are not trained for high risk births and carry only basic childbirth tools. The idea of this is iffy to some because they always have a thought in the back of their mindws that what if their baby is at risk, will the midwife be able to help. As we saw in th "business of being born" the mother who had a pound baby. The fact that this happened and the midwife didn't see was pretty scary. The mother at 5 months old was very small and that was even pointed out by her freind and if her friend can spot that but a trained midwife can't then there is a problem. In latin culture having a midwife isn't an option because many latin women don't like the idea of having a lady rushing in at many hours of the night checking on the mom. Also from what i see from my life and other people, Latin women are very preocupied so they find no time in the whole midwife movement. ALso many spanish women don't know about midwives. Latin women tend to follow norms and tradition so any other research that ma be beneficial is never discovered.
Along with researching the idea of midwifery as a taboo, I looked at the pros of having a midwife in relation to spanish people. I found that a midwife can cost much less than a hospital and this is always good and not only for spanish women but for everyone. Another advantage that i found on wham.com is that a midwife is fully attentive to your baby. Doctors are very busy and have many other things on their mind but a midwife plans their schedule based on your needs. What latin women like to do is that they like to not feel pain and they like the security that a doctor provides. When i asked my family what they thought about the idea that doctors sometimes tell us lies just to get more money and everyone was surprised. Sometimes doctors use drugs because they get more money since the shots cost tons of money. The doctor fuels the ideas that women are going to feel pain. A hospital enviroment sweats out the aura of pain. People sick, people dying, people giving birth. It is all scary and when my mom told me how the doctor kept reminding her about the drugs when she was pregnant with my brother, it didn't shock me. The hopsital is made as a capitalist institution like a Mcdonalds or fast food joint. We are offered a menu of operations and procedures just like a restaurant. It is a factory of get in get out.
I also looked at teh idea of latin women getting pregnant at younger ages. 52 percent of latin women got pregnant at least once before the age of 20. Why is this valid? This shows that latin women are too young to understand birt. Many times the birth is unexpected and the woman goes throuh with it because they do not like the idea of getting an abortion or any other idea. Some women are babies themselves giving birth. When we are that young and giving birth, one doesnt take time to read a book on midwifes and there isnt alternatives to a hospital. It is hard to understand what they want when they do not know themselves. That statistic from the nationalcampaign.org was not shocking either because birth is very common at early ages in latin culture and it is common for hospital birth because we are naiive or sometimes uneducated about other options.
It is not tradition to seek a midwife in my culture and the fact that sometimes a person is uneducated doesnt help. Latin women choose their path because they can be afraid, or they just don't know any better. I feel that an education about these things are imprtant. Many women want children but the fact that we do not learn about these things in school, it is very hard to decide on what is best. It is time to change that and also the way that latin women have birth at young ages.
In America we see birth asa an experience that is too scary because of the fact that a life is coming out of someone and it is scary for some What if one cannot afford a a hospital, what do we do? It is hard to make decisions but i feel that it is as easy as asking yourself if you are getting a midwife for yourself or for the baby. Sometimes i feel that a person wants to go to a hospital because we want to feel ok for ourselves first and then the baby. Also the same thing with a midwife but that may be so that the baby is ok and then you come next. People view midwifery as dangerous and unsafe because we feel that a women coming to help you in stretching and other exercises are bad. Even though they are trained almost as much as doctors are. I want to look at the idea of midwives through latin perspective and how midwifery is a taboo for us.
In my family nobody i know of has ever given birth by a midwife. I asked my mother why and she said because she never knew about a midwife. She first got pregnant at the age of 18 and she really had no idea what to do so the traditional hospital birth was the only option she had. As for my brother and I, we were born the same way, through a hospital. My family doesn't belive in midwifery birthing because it seems akward to us. We dont like the idea that a woman comes to our home and helps us out, it just seems weird and unecessary. I feel that in American society hospitals are the route to go because a hospital has the security in case things go wrong where it can be fixed. Also because hospital births are very common, almost as common as seeing a Mcdonalds within walking distance of us. Midwifery on teh other hand is seen as strange and funny to us. I asked my Aunt who is currently pregnant and asked her if she would ever think about getting a midwife and she said," haha are you crazy, how do i look stretching my fat belly in front of chris?" She has another son and she wouldnt want a midwife because her family will see her doing these things and think she is weird. Also she has this idea where something may go wrong. If something went wrong like we saw in the cnn clip, i dont think my aunt would be able to handle it, conisdering what happend last year. On wham.com i read an artical fdetailing three reasons why having a midwife was not good. It stated that midwives are not trained for high risk births and carry only basic childbirth tools. The idea of this is iffy to some because they always have a thought in the back of their mindws that what if their baby is at risk, will the midwife be able to help. As we saw in th "business of being born" the mother who had a pound baby. The fact that this happened and the midwife didn't see was pretty scary. The mother at 5 months old was very small and that was even pointed out by her freind and if her friend can spot that but a trained midwife can't then there is a problem. In latin culture having a midwife isn't an option because many latin women don't like the idea of having a lady rushing in at many hours of the night checking on the mom. Also from what i see from my life and other people, Latin women are very preocupied so they find no time in the whole midwife movement. ALso many spanish women don't know about midwives. Latin women tend to follow norms and tradition so any other research that ma be beneficial is never discovered.
Along with researching the idea of midwifery as a taboo, I looked at the pros of having a midwife in relation to spanish people. I found that a midwife can cost much less than a hospital and this is always good and not only for spanish women but for everyone. Another advantage that i found on wham.com is that a midwife is fully attentive to your baby. Doctors are very busy and have many other things on their mind but a midwife plans their schedule based on your needs. What latin women like to do is that they like to not feel pain and they like the security that a doctor provides. When i asked my family what they thought about the idea that doctors sometimes tell us lies just to get more money and everyone was surprised. Sometimes doctors use drugs because they get more money since the shots cost tons of money. The doctor fuels the ideas that women are going to feel pain. A hospital enviroment sweats out the aura of pain. People sick, people dying, people giving birth. It is all scary and when my mom told me how the doctor kept reminding her about the drugs when she was pregnant with my brother, it didn't shock me. The hopsital is made as a capitalist institution like a Mcdonalds or fast food joint. We are offered a menu of operations and procedures just like a restaurant. It is a factory of get in get out.
I also looked at teh idea of latin women getting pregnant at younger ages. 52 percent of latin women got pregnant at least once before the age of 20. Why is this valid? This shows that latin women are too young to understand birt. Many times the birth is unexpected and the woman goes throuh with it because they do not like the idea of getting an abortion or any other idea. Some women are babies themselves giving birth. When we are that young and giving birth, one doesnt take time to read a book on midwifes and there isnt alternatives to a hospital. It is hard to understand what they want when they do not know themselves. That statistic from the nationalcampaign.org was not shocking either because birth is very common at early ages in latin culture and it is common for hospital birth because we are naiive or sometimes uneducated about other options.
It is not tradition to seek a midwife in my culture and the fact that sometimes a person is uneducated doesnt help. Latin women choose their path because they can be afraid, or they just don't know any better. I feel that an education about these things are imprtant. Many women want children but the fact that we do not learn about these things in school, it is very hard to decide on what is best. It is time to change that and also the way that latin women have birth at young ages.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
You find yourself at a cocktail party with the author of the book you just finished reading. To demonstrate that you really read it, you say, "Hey - thanks for writing the Ina May guide to childbirth.. Your main idea on how midwife births are safe effective and acceptable made me rethink ever going to a hospital if my wife were to ever have a child. You attacked so many negatives about midwives and you have brought so many positive aspects out that it would be nonsense for someone to ever read this book an actually continue to go to a hospital for birth.
But the author, surprised to be talking to someone who instead of sharing their own birth story actually rephrased the main idea of the text s/he spent months giving birth to asks, "Really, which parts were most effective or important for you?" When you answer, "Well, in the last third of the book you focused on the process of approaching someone with questions , which further developed your book into being anactual guide and can really help people who do not kno where to begin. You have literally made a guide that can walk someone through their entire midwife experience. But let me be more specific. Such where u wrote some questions which you listed ou on pages 308-310. In this section of the book another idea I focused on was where you spoke about maternal death beginning on page 272 and continuing on. This was a very emotional part of the book which may come off as nightmarish but at the same time very informative. The last part of you book also spoke about vaginal birth after cesarian. This part of your book was very factual and raised awareness and knowledge to those wondering. Your book is more of a guide than most other books written on this topic due to the fact that the reader feels as if you are actually speaking to them.
At this point, realizing that s/he's having a unique conversation with a serious reader of her/his book, the author asks - "But what could I have done to make this a better book - that would more effectively fulfill its mission?" You answer, "Well, let's be clear - your text sought to provide (narratives, historical analysis, journalistic analysis, policy analysis) from the perspective of a ( ....) for the book-reading-public to better understand pregnancy & birth in our culture. Given that aim, and your book, the best advice I would give for a 2nd edition of the text would be, to focus less on all of the stories of childbirth. I feel that the first part of the book is repetetive and dry. 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 orgasm during natural birth & techniques that hospitals avoid which ultimately are the proper solutions. Such as the hands and knees push which can get a baby out if danger arises, where as in a hospital they take other approaches. In fact, I'm likely to inform my family and friends about natural birth as a result of your book. The author replies, "Thanks! Talking to you gives me hope about our future as a society!"
But the author, surprised to be talking to someone who instead of sharing their own birth story actually rephrased the main idea of the text s/he spent months giving birth to asks, "Really, which parts were most effective or important for you?" When you answer, "Well, in the last third of the book you focused on the process of approaching someone with questions , which further developed your book into being anactual guide and can really help people who do not kno where to begin. You have literally made a guide that can walk someone through their entire midwife experience. But let me be more specific. Such where u wrote some questions which you listed ou on pages 308-310. In this section of the book another idea I focused on was where you spoke about maternal death beginning on page 272 and continuing on. This was a very emotional part of the book which may come off as nightmarish but at the same time very informative. The last part of you book also spoke about vaginal birth after cesarian. This part of your book was very factual and raised awareness and knowledge to those wondering. Your book is more of a guide than most other books written on this topic due to the fact that the reader feels as if you are actually speaking to them.
At this point, realizing that s/he's having a unique conversation with a serious reader of her/his book, the author asks - "But what could I have done to make this a better book - that would more effectively fulfill its mission?" You answer, "Well, let's be clear - your text sought to provide (narratives, historical analysis, journalistic analysis, policy analysis) from the perspective of a ( ....) for the book-reading-public to better understand pregnancy & birth in our culture. Given that aim, and your book, the best advice I would give for a 2nd edition of the text would be, to focus less on all of the stories of childbirth. I feel that the first part of the book is repetetive and dry. 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 orgasm during natural birth & techniques that hospitals avoid which ultimately are the proper solutions. Such as the hands and knees push which can get a baby out if danger arises, where as in a hospital they take other approaches. In fact, I'm likely to inform my family and friends about natural birth as a result of your book. The author replies, "Thanks! Talking to you gives me hope about our future as a society!"
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
hw 39 insights part 2
the major insight in these next 100 pages is that midwife practice is not terrible and that it can be pleasing to women. There are times where a women feels pleasure from giving birth and that the mind is in a state in which the pain no longer exist. This pleasure from birth is called orgasmic birth. In this part of the book the images show women as they ar giving birth and they all seem to be smiling and look like they are enjoying giving birth because it feels good.
I thought this was not possible for a woman to experience but in some cases things like this happens. it surprised me at first and i thought it was weird for a women to experience, but i think that at the moment of giving birth, feeling good may not be such a bad thing. I think its great someone experiences that during birth because it totally cahnges the mood in the room from nervous and scared to enjoyable and maybe a little bit scared.
I think orgasmic birth should be publicized. To know that it can feel good is comforting, the only problem is that not everyone experiences it so it may not be such a good idea for someone to get pregnant just so they can experience an orgasmic birth.
I think that more books should include the techniques used in birth. Ina May lists out a bunch of things women can do to ease the pain, things such as laughing, or going in warm water to help open the sphincter
Another thing that should be addressed is the fact thateating good is precious in the pregnancy process. I feel that as a whole, women feel that they can eat whatever they want since they are pregnant but its bad because the baby get nutrients from what you eat so if a woman eats pringles and honey buns all day, it can harm the baby
I like how there are pictures showing positions that can comfort the pregnant woman and these moves have been around for a very long time and it is amazing because these people had no hospitals and they all came out fine but doctors insits that hospitals are whats best.
I like the way that the author described ultrasounds and how she said that they led to cancer for babies in the 70's . This should be paid attention to for the mother to understand that there were side effects back then.
I thought this was not possible for a woman to experience but in some cases things like this happens. it surprised me at first and i thought it was weird for a women to experience, but i think that at the moment of giving birth, feeling good may not be such a bad thing. I think its great someone experiences that during birth because it totally cahnges the mood in the room from nervous and scared to enjoyable and maybe a little bit scared.
I think orgasmic birth should be publicized. To know that it can feel good is comforting, the only problem is that not everyone experiences it so it may not be such a good idea for someone to get pregnant just so they can experience an orgasmic birth.
I think that more books should include the techniques used in birth. Ina May lists out a bunch of things women can do to ease the pain, things such as laughing, or going in warm water to help open the sphincter
Another thing that should be addressed is the fact thateating good is precious in the pregnancy process. I feel that as a whole, women feel that they can eat whatever they want since they are pregnant but its bad because the baby get nutrients from what you eat so if a woman eats pringles and honey buns all day, it can harm the baby
I like how there are pictures showing positions that can comfort the pregnant woman and these moves have been around for a very long time and it is amazing because these people had no hospitals and they all came out fine but doctors insits that hospitals are whats best.
I like the way that the author described ultrasounds and how she said that they led to cancer for babies in the 70's . This should be paid attention to for the mother to understand that there were side effects back then.
Monday, March 14, 2011
hw 38 insights from birth book
The book I am reading is called Ina May's guide to childbirth. The structure of the book is that in which it is a book that is sort of like a journal. It reminds me of an email. Peple send her stories about their experiences and they are all in this book. This book is not really a guide but more of a journal of all her favorite births, or at least the ones that were significant to her.
The major question that this book tries to answer is why is having a natural birth at a farm/ village looed down upon? It makes women feel closer to the earth and more spiritually connected to their child, so why is it so bad? I feel like the answer to that question is as easy as saying that having midwives and farms where women give birth really are not as profitable to that institution and to America in the way that hospitals are. Childbirth is a business where every cut, and every word and action a doctor makes costs money. Childbirth can cost less to the parents if they do natural birthing but of course institutions such as hospitals tend to make an argument saying that having a home/ natural birth is undafe and dangerous because god forbid something goes wron, then both the baby and mother are in jeopardy.
The main insight in the first 100 pages is that midwives and natural birth is a very surreal experience for everyone involved. The methods that these natural births follow are methods that humankind have followed for centuries. The insight is that hospital births take away from the beauty of birth. Hospitals take away from the spirituality and extacy that a mother can feel. Hospitals just take the regular approach which is to put you in a bed and inject you if you are hurting. Natural birth invloves a lot of participation and emotion that the drugs hospitals give would take away.
5 interesting aspects of birth that deserve public attention.
1. Midwives in general. They should be more popularized and women should experience natural births more often
2. the way that doctors tell you to do something because it will make them money. The truth behind why doctors tell moms to get c sections or to feed their babies formula. That should be adressed.
3. The way that some women find birth to be orgasmic. Not many people know this about having natural births. It should be said that taking the steps that a midwife tells you can make your birth more pleasurable.
4.How some drugs you take can endagner the baby and drug up your baby. The doctors use these pain killing drugs on the mother but the baby can get some of it too which means the baby will come out being under the influence kind of. Not a good way to enter this world.
5. The way how most doctors have never sat in to witness a real birth session so they really don't know what it is like to see a baby coming out, where as for the midwife, they see all of that so they can tell when something is wrong.
Ina May uses a lot to support her claim that natural birth is the way to go. The whole book is her evidence i think. In every story there may be a part that is scaring or akes the reader make a face, but at the end the person always says how beautiful and happy they were to have a natural birth, so her clain is that what people think about these nightmarish midwives and their atrocious ways really is not true.
The major question that this book tries to answer is why is having a natural birth at a farm/ village looed down upon? It makes women feel closer to the earth and more spiritually connected to their child, so why is it so bad? I feel like the answer to that question is as easy as saying that having midwives and farms where women give birth really are not as profitable to that institution and to America in the way that hospitals are. Childbirth is a business where every cut, and every word and action a doctor makes costs money. Childbirth can cost less to the parents if they do natural birthing but of course institutions such as hospitals tend to make an argument saying that having a home/ natural birth is undafe and dangerous because god forbid something goes wron, then both the baby and mother are in jeopardy.
The main insight in the first 100 pages is that midwives and natural birth is a very surreal experience for everyone involved. The methods that these natural births follow are methods that humankind have followed for centuries. The insight is that hospital births take away from the beauty of birth. Hospitals take away from the spirituality and extacy that a mother can feel. Hospitals just take the regular approach which is to put you in a bed and inject you if you are hurting. Natural birth invloves a lot of participation and emotion that the drugs hospitals give would take away.
5 interesting aspects of birth that deserve public attention.
1. Midwives in general. They should be more popularized and women should experience natural births more often
2. the way that doctors tell you to do something because it will make them money. The truth behind why doctors tell moms to get c sections or to feed their babies formula. That should be adressed.
3. The way that some women find birth to be orgasmic. Not many people know this about having natural births. It should be said that taking the steps that a midwife tells you can make your birth more pleasurable.
4.How some drugs you take can endagner the baby and drug up your baby. The doctors use these pain killing drugs on the mother but the baby can get some of it too which means the baby will come out being under the influence kind of. Not a good way to enter this world.
5. The way how most doctors have never sat in to witness a real birth session so they really don't know what it is like to see a baby coming out, where as for the midwife, they see all of that so they can tell when something is wrong.
Ina May uses a lot to support her claim that natural birth is the way to go. The whole book is her evidence i think. In every story there may be a part that is scaring or akes the reader make a face, but at the end the person always says how beautiful and happy they were to have a natural birth, so her clain is that what people think about these nightmarish midwives and their atrocious ways really is not true.
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