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
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