HW 45 - Reply to Other Peoples' Comments

Thank you guys for commenting my project, what you guys found interesting about my project, was that I put my personal thoughts and emotions into my story. Allwyen mentioned: "I also enjoyed how you made the project personal to you, and you didn’t leave out any feeling, this made the project feel more real, and shows more of your own personality coming out". This explains that my project made him feel connected, because it could affect how he view doctors or maybe not. He also wanted to know, what I wanted to be different about my doctors visit. Sarah C mentioned:  "Your project gave an extremely emotional personal narrative. You showed a parallel between your experience with the United States medical care and the standard prenatal stores".  When Sarah told me this, I felt that that what I was trying to get with my blog, and I’m glad, she got that while reading my blog. They both questioned how they wanted to know pregnant   people in the prenatal care.

HW 44 - Comments on Other People's Projects

Hi sam,
This is leticia

I enjoy reading your blog about the importance of having a baby and its part of our human nature. I really like the part when you mentioned "I believe that family have the most conscientious approach to raising a child, as they see it as a responsibility and not a toy. Friends look out for your best interests in terms of life style changes and possible career implications". Especially the line when you mentioned believe that family have the most conscientious approach to raising a child, as they see it as a responsibility and not a toy. Because I see my brother raising his child, he make sure his child is good and has the things he needs, I could he will be raised well, since the fact my brother is in his 30's and so is his wife.. But I have question for you. What do you think about young adults such as 14-20, They spend most of the time partying and not focusing on their child life? Are they responsible? Do their friends and family members support them? What do you think about that?

Also from your blog I like that you based it on religious views too. I think that’s also a part of people families and how they will like to raise their baby.... Is your religion view going to influence on how you would like to raise your baby?.. Do you think religion is important in peoples life .




Hi Rossi,
I don’t know you and I don’t think you are in my grade?..I’m in 12th you?.
Well I was snooping around and I saw your name and I said Why not!. MY name is leticia.
I really liked your blog because I never heard a prospective from a nurse. I liked the questions you asked because; it gets into details with what the nurse thinks. For person #1 ... I like the line when she mentioned "used “judiciously” and to a doctor or patients liking. She claimed that patients may have a cesarean on a certain day just so that they would not be in the hospital on another" I think that explains, the point of doctors ability to do what they please and get the mothers out as soon as possible.

For person # 2 I liked how she backed up the hospital, it explains she is either against it or with it but she is scared, she could lose her job "When asked about C-section rates, she said that Roosevelt hospital has the lowest C-section rates in the city. “Do you think if you interview outside the hospital it would have been different.


For person #3 I liked how she was honest and straight forward. I liked she compared Jamaica and US she was not saying one is better than other. I also liked when she mentioned “it’s not that the doctors are not properly trained, they just are not fully educated.” In saying this she agreed that they handle situations as if they are in emergency and said that the trainings for doctors should be different. During her training she was trained like a midwife and working in the field that she does, surrounded by doctors and many unnatural births she said that they are just accustomed to the emergency situations" Which made ask do doctors want to know how to do natural birth? or are they force to not be educated about it.?.

Overall I think you did a good job, Its nice to hear from people who work in the hospital,. This made me feel that doctors of a sense of people views.

Hi megumi,

This is leticia

I liked how you focused on c- sections in the United States, and it became high practice in the birthing process.

While reading your blog I liked how you explained the statistics on C-section rates in the United States. And how you explained the statistics but you added your ideas, which made the blog more interesting.

This matters to me because, From reading your blog and doing some research on my mine. This makes me think about was it because they mother needed or was it because the doctors just wanted to do?

Hey  Matthew its me Leticia

I liked how you start your blog in poem format “One America…”but gets into guide information too. I think your point of view on single mothers are very important because I am raised by one parent and I do think how much a difference it would be if, I had both parents.  I think it’s important for both partners to be involved in the child’s life even If they are not together. But what about the views of single dads?... I think that would have been a cool thing to add.... Overall I liked your blog.

HW 42 - Pregnancy & birth culminating project

 Experiance in the Hospital:

The reason why I’m talking about this is because I feel like it explains dominate Social practices.

So I went to the doctor Thursday, and I don’t like going to the doctor because of the long waits ( 4hrs) just to see a doctor for about 20 mins.  So I finally got to see my "doctor" in April, when I made an appointment in October. So  I go to the hospital ( Bellevue hospital) I have to go  to 2 B. That’s what my mother told me.  This will be the first time me going to the adult clinic, because I’m 18 yrs. So I’m thinking maybe this will go faster (I guess wrong).  I go to 2B wait on line for about 5 mins (okay not that bad.) I go to the lady at the desk, she told me I need to go to 2 A (roll my eyes and go).  I walk to 2A another 10 mins on line, (appointment was at 12) its 12:20.  I go to 2 A, the lady with a big bun in her hair, told me I have to go to 2C (I got angry).  I'm finally here 2C. She asked if I had my Metro plus card, I said No I left it home. Usually when I go, if i do not have my metro plus card, they just find in the system. Now this lady, she got long fake nails did not want to find in the system, so she told me I have to go to the 3rd floor. At this point I was really mad.

The whole time I had to be at 2A.

 Alright, now I ‘m waiting for the doctor (1:30). The nurse called me; she asked if this is my first time being there I said ‘yes’, Took height and weight. So here comes the doctor Dr. Tanner, Some tall white dude, looks about 48.  Me: Hi. He replays back “Do you speak English"? (I’m thinking in my head, I said Hi, in an English accident, loud enough for him to here).  Me: Yes I do, Dr. Tanner: "I will be your doctor today. I’m like alright cool, a male doctor for the first time...let’s see how today goes. While Doctor Tanner is talking to me, there this Asian dude with him name Kevin. Dr. Tanner than said, Kevin will take me to the room. After that I did not see Dr. Tanner, he left somewhere else (wtf). Alright, I thought maybe doctor Tanner had something to do real quick (I guess wrong).  Kevin (not my doctor) said he will be asking me questions, to have an idea about my health. Me: where’s doctor Tanner, I thought he is my doctor?.. Kevin:  Dr. Tanner is in the other room doing paper work. By this time I’m confused.... I asked again, Where’s Doctor Tanner... Kevin: I will be actually taking care of you today.  (What! this dam Asian dude is not touching me, he just a dam intern, I thought Dr. Tanner is my doctor. I was mad). The first time I was being in this clinic and my "doctor" not even taking care of me.   After, he was done asking me a lot of question. Kevin: I will let Doctor Tanner, What I did. By this point I just wanted to leave. Kevin: I will be checking you today.  Me:  Where’s Doctor Tanner? Kevin: he is dealing with someone else.  Kevin leaves the room. Comes back, with some lady, I don’t even know. Kevin: she will help me guide to check you. Me:  but I though Dr. Tanner will be doing this. Lady:  No, sorry...Is everything okay? Me: Well, you guys told me that Dr. Tanner will be my doctor; he is not present at all. Lady: I am a doctor too, I will help you. By this time I’m quiet and annoyed, so I go with the routine, but I’m not very nice. I did not let her do, what she wanted, and I told her I felt uncomfortable with Kevin being in the room.  When she was done, I told her prefer a female doctor, the lady said: Sure, we can do that, sorry that you were not able to see Dr. Tanner today.  It was nice meeting you. When she said," it was nice meeting you", shows there is no connection between doctor and patient.  I will never see her again, When Dr. Tanner told me he will be my doctor, and he was not ever present in the room.  Asian dude, I will never see again, asking me personal question. Ugh. I waited 6months, to not see my doctor.  By this time it’s already 3:00, he sends me to get blood work done. I go back at 2C, another 20 mins, saw nurse; she is some angry Jamaican lady lecturing me, talking about her son. Leave there at 4:15... What a long Fin day at the dam hospital

 My doctor visit: I waited 6mths to not see my doctor, I was supposed to my see “doctor at 12" saw him at 2:30... Do not see him at all!!!!!!. left hospital at 4:15. O yeah to make another appointment. I have to wait 6mths.

 I connect this with the birth unit, because with my experience at the hospital and the doctor, just saying hi and walking away does not create a bond. This is why, when I read Ina May, and the women talking about their experience giving birth in the hospital. The women spoke about how they didn’t feel connected with their doctor Autumn Apple Windseeds's birth- November 11,1970 by Kim Trainor: The birth of my first child in manhattan was standard-procedure hospital birth. I was frist put in room by myself,left to my own fears, and had my amniotic sac ruptured by an attendant. Then I was stuffed  in a ward of screaming and yelling women in labor"(pg19) The fact that this women was left alone, and it was her frist time giving birth she had no doctor or nurse support. It should not matter, if I was switched to the adult side.  I don’t know if it was because he was a male doctor, or that’s how the system works in the adult side. But I just saw him and he left.. there was no piont him saying he was my doctor, if he was not even going to be in the same room with me. My other doctor (female), I can say I had for  16yrs, she knows me well.  She spoke Spanish too; I and my mother enjoyed her.  From reading the book, the mothers explain, their experience at the farm and with the midwives, each once explained they had a good relationship with the midwives. This also made think about what my sister in-law told me; in the Dominican Republic she would have had the same doctor through the whole thing. When she came here, she had different doctors even when she had to give birth.  My personal experience visiting the doctors, I feel like it’s part of dominate social practices because everything is rushed, it can’t get personal.  This also happens in public hospitals, they can’t provide the personal experience, with the patient I have to wait another 6mths to another doctor. What made, me angry is that It was not my doctor who saw or spoke to me. When Was I supposed to see him? When I make another appointment? What if this kept happing? In the end, the visit to the doctor I was not happy. It would have been nice if Dr. Tanner actually took care of his patient.

HW 40 - Insights from Book - Part 3

I seem to have found myself at a cocktail party, when in walks Ina May, the author of the book, Ina May Guide to child birth which coincidentally, I have just finished reading.

Leticia

Hi my name is Leticia and I wanted to say thanks for writing:

 Ina May Guide to child birth.

Ina May:

Do I know you?

Leticia :                                                                                                                                            

  No, but I am a student at School of the future learning about birth and my teacher Andy assigned me this book.

Ina May:

Well isn’t that nice, what did you like most about my book than?

Leticia :

 What I liked about your book is that you show statistics data, you go beyond of your information. As well the pictures and the background information about birth, it was not just your opinion, but showed information base on your experience and others peoples.  

Ina May surprised to be talking to someone who actually rephrased the main idea of the text instead of sharing their own birth story, replies curiously.

Ina may:

Really? Which parts were most effective or important to you?

Leticia:

Well, in the middle if the book, you were talking about the natural high that we humans produce, oxytocin, Which furthers your thesis. You explain your point of the book, that women should be natural through their baby birth and pregnancy.  On pages 147-166, where you mention that women need to feel the things that their body can do.

At this point, Ina May has realized that she's having a unique conversation with a serious reader of her book.

Ina May:

I see that you did enjoy the book; do you have any suggestions of how I could have applied more information about birth? Or anything else?

Leticia:

Yes, I think that you could have added the midwives experience with given births instead of the patient. I think that would have help to see both sides of the story, the happy moment of the women giving birth , but what is the whole process of the midwife being there, how she felt her experience with others births. As well your background, what made you want to be a midwife? Yes you do show information about hospitals birth and how their system births, but have you ever felt that you or any midwife could not let the women give birth vaginally or intend her.

Ina may:

I can see why you ask these questions and have these suggestions, I guess the reason why is because I want women to feel comfortable with their body, even if their first time having a baby. I want women to understand what their bodies can do. To be aware of other options not just the hospital but this could be something that can help them emotionally and to be informed. I want women to not feel lost, and to be involved and know the procurers that are done. I am not saying that are hospitals are bad but to be aware of what doctors do and what midwifes can do too.   Maybe adding formation about the midwives experience would have been a good idea and adding mine too. Thanks I will keep those to in mind.  It was nice talking to you Leticia.

Leticia:

Thanks for answering my questions and responding to my thoughts about your book. Have a wonderful day.

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.