HW 39 - Insights from Book - Part 2

1. After MLA citation list several topics/areas the book has taught you about that the "Business of Being Born" either ignored or treated differently or in less depth.

Mays, Ina. Ina Mays Guide to Child birth. A Division of Random House, Inc New York, New York.
Publshed: By Bantam Dell 2003
 The Powerful Mind/Body Connection ( Ina Mays)

From early in life, Most of us are bombarded with messages that teach you to think that your thoughts and feelings don't matter when it comes to the functioning of your body. In the same way, Western medicen assumes a total separation between mind and body. Thoughts and feelings are considered irrelevant to physical welfare. When something goes wrong with the body, our culture teaches that pharmaceutical medicines or surgery will be necessary.Pg.134

" For years women were told they can't give births" (business of being born)
" If the women is not moving the way the doctors want them to be at they put them on "pit" to rush the labor, Which is lacking the oxygen on the baby, which makes the baby a little high.( business of being born)

The hormones that Regulate Labor  and Birth:
 " I mentioned earlier that natural prostaglandins act on the cervix to soften and thin it in readiness for labor. Oxytocin causes the uterus to contract.  Later on, when the bulk of the baby passes through the vagina, a sudden rise in oxytocin levels in mother and baby stimulates the chain of instinctual dance between them that is most often called falling in love" (pg147-148)
"Ebiderl slows down labor" (business of being born)
" They give mothers so much drugs it becomes an experiement" (business of being born)

2. The major insight the book tries to communicate in the second 100 pages (1-3 sentences) and your response to that insight (2-4 sentences).

" I have seen many laboring women go from hell to heaven within seconds as they moved from stark terror to realization of how to work with the energy of birth."(pg 152) Our Births is natural, the more you freak out , the pelvic won't be relaxed and it will be harder for the baby to come out. We just need to relax and let out body do what it has to do".

From this birth unit I am still thinking about, what makes a women have a natural births? What are the steps I can say I want a natural birth... But what do I have to do? Do you have to be rich?, poor?, or Middle class?  Ina May did not state this in her book. But what is the outcome? Yes you help me delivered this baby natural with a grate support team, but when does the money come in? Will the hospital help with full coverage and have a natural birth? What if I want a baby, but cannot be able to afford it? Do you guys help in that situation? Turn women down? I think Ina may will not turn a woman down, but how does the woman know everything is okay? I support this method, I support the natural births, the ability for women to go beyond what the (Society here) think they can't do, but that’s totally wrong.  This book shows the women hood of our ability and that there’s no need to stop our natural process of birth.  What I also want to know, Is what made Ina May talk about these methods? What made her feel that women need to know about this?  I did reasearch it does not explain her background of where she came from etc...? http://www.inamay.com/?page_id=14..

3. List 5 interesting aspects of pregnancy and birth discussed in the second hundred pages that you agree deserve wider attention (include page number).


Orgasmic birth(pg.157)

Scary Births Get high Ratings (pg.164)

Sphincter Law(pg.168)

Techono-medical model(pg.185)

Many studies agree that fewer than ten percent of women require labor induction for medical reasons (pg.207).


4. Independently research one crucial factual claim by the author in the second hundred pages and assess the validity of the author's use of that evidence.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/h-carson4.html    

• These sphincters cannot be opened at will and do not respond well to commands such as push or relax!
• When a person's sphincter is in the process of opening, it may suddenly close down if that person becomes upset, frightened, humiliated, or self conscious.  Why?  High levels of adrenaline in the bloodstream do not favor (sometimes, they actually prevent) the opening of sphincters. 
• The state of relaxation of the mouth and jaw is directly correlated to the ability of the cervix, the vagina, and the anus to open to full capacity.

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

1. The book I'm reading is Ina May Guide to child Birth: So far in the book, its mostly babies stories of women given birth. Each page explains that each woman has a different birth experience and that women should feel connected to their bodies and overcome this great experience of having their baby.

2. I don’t think my book is trying to question anything, but so far it’s saying that women should be control over their bodies and to have support through their pregnancy. Each women stated that midwifes supported them and they felt relaxed.  Not only do women share giving birth naturally but some of these women tell their experience of having birth in the hospital with their first child and how much they did not feel control of their own body.  So far reading the book, I feel that the midwives do treat their patients with respectful and security.  They don’t want the women to feel alone.

3. " Imagine a flower blooming," said Pamela, while I was in the bath. “As the flower blooms, the baby is being pushed out” I thought that motive, was important and meaningful l.  Flowers are beautiful and for the midwife to say that shows there is support and personal connection. This is not what hospitals do, they just want you in and out, and the doctors are in control not the women.

4.  Watching the movie, what I found most interesting is that doctors are not worrying about the women, it just becomes a whole big experiment, and the doctors take control. For example, “Pit” this is something they make women take to make the labor faster if the women are not meeting the hospital’s needs. This makes me feel like hospitals don’t have respect of the importance of a women giving birth.  I think of my aunt and my sister-in-law and each one had a bad birth experience.  My aunt had her  second baby when she was 35 yrz old ,my little cousin came out with down siddurim she was supposed to have a C-section  just like her first child, but when she arrived they told her she will have to vagnal delivery ( she was not happy).  My sister-in-law also was supposed to have a C-section and but the doctor told her no it will be cheaper to have a baby vagnal (she came from the Dominican Republic) this was her first baby. When she was in labor she had another doctor she did not know, this is not the doctor she saw threw the 9months.  Through the TVs and Shows, they make birth seem not women like, but a scary thing to experience.

5. This book is written like a documentary, it’s the women point of view while she is in labor, which makes things more personal.  It also seems like everyone had a connection, it was not like I never “saw her again” the pregnant women would become very good friends with the midwife.  As well there were some historical points; she did research in the back of the books shows information about the women and techniques each chapter build on women labor and the process of it.  Her style of writing is insights of the women, no sugar coding but realistic…  

Cool baby information:

http://www.babycenter.com/2_inside-pregnancy-weeks-28-to-37_3658874.bc

Hw 37

To Ben:

I think you did a good job expla,ing your mothers birth experiance and aswell describing how your father felt through the pregnacey. What caught my attention was when you explaing that your father took notes.during the whole thing and they took birthing classes."Througout a large part of the nine month period, my father took notes during my mother's pregnancy as well as in the classes they took on the Bradley method" From this shows that your parents, were on the same level of thinking on having a child and becoming prepared. This also made think about how much pregancey goes well when two people are involved and not just the women dealing with the whole thing. This is probably why your mother felt fine through your birth. I think something that could have been cool if you could have recored your mom talking and your dad. or took a picture of the notes he took. Overall this was a great post.

To Wille:

Im not sure who you interveiwed, which made the blog post  unclear. I did like the part where you mentioned, "Then i would take long walks to help my body get stronger. I also rubbed and talked to my stomach" because it explains that the person you interviwed was careful on how they took care of the baby. I think next time you should mentioned the persons name and put a little bit more depth, because I noticed you just kept repeating yourself. Hope next post is depthful.