HW 41 - Independent Research

The aspect that i decided on was the process of becoming an OB/GYN and why people chose this profession.

A.)

http://degreedirectory.org/articles/OBGYN_How_to_Become_an_OBGYN_in_5_Steps.html

This link is showing me that the process of becoming an OB/GYN can apparently be accomplished in 5 steps.  Although they do make it sound easy i don't believe that it is.  Since it is essentially the same as becoming a doctor you really need to be as motivated and determined as possible.  You must go through a lot of schooling and other intensive training to accomplish this goal.  In becoming OB/GYN i feel that it may be better if you are a women since you are focusing completely on the anatomy of a female so it may interest you more to find out these things about your own body.


http://www.obgyn.net/women/women.asp?page=/women/articles/obgyn_dah


This page literally sums up all the requirements to be an OB/GYN.  They talk about how in college it is very important to have high grades in your field of study.  Most of the pre med students trying to be an OB/GYN have the GPA of around a 3.5-3.7.  So not only must you be committed with the profession but you must be committed to achieve the goal to get to that profession.  Once you are done with your 4 years at a normal college you must then move on to medical school.  Medical school is pretty much your final test to see if you are really ready to become an OB/GYN.  Some people will find out then that it may not be right for them and not go through with their plans/life goals.


http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4609


This definition of an OB/GYN pretty much brakes down what it really stands for.  The OB part stands for Obstetrician.  An obstetrician is just literally someone who delivers babies.  The GYN part is just the learning of a women's body.  An OB/GYN is the key to a birth, without them i feel that the whole birth process would be different.  If they were not there to supervise the birth and make sure everything is going according to plan then the process of birth would have a lot more flaws then it does now.


http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Obstetrician_%2F_Gynecologist_(OB%2FGYN)/Salary


As a doctor an OB/GYN gets paid a very high salary.  I don't believe that people join this professions just for the soul reason that they enjoy doing it.  I am sure that when they do like what they are doing but when the figured out how much they would be getting paid it really pushed them more towards this profession. 


http://www.acog.org/from_home/publications/press_releases/nr12-09-03-2.cfm


Many women OB/GYN's tend to benefit for the everyday work that they do.  The information that they find out is beneficial to all females so they figure that if other women can use this information they might as well use it to reflect upon their own work.


B.)


The way that all the information that i gathered above can be used for a cumulating project is i can use all this information and double check it with an actual OB/GYN.  I can interview them to compare all this information and see if they agree or disagree with all of these statistics.  Then after this interview i can compare my thoughts of all this before the interview and after and write a comparative essay about my two opinions.

HW 40 - Insights from Book - Part 3

Hey- thanks for writing BIRTH.  Your thesis about how birth can never really be natural persuaded me to believe that the thought of natural birth is nothing but a fairy tale.

"Really, which parts were most effective or important for you?"


Well, in the last third of your book you focused on, the role that a father plays in the whole process of giving birth. Which added another angle on to the first 2/3 of the book. But let me be more specific:


First off you talked to us about how the women felt about a man being in the room and the different reactions different women had to men being in the room at the time. "It was the 1940's and Dr. Robert A. Bradley, who was still training in obstetrics, was studying what happened when husbands were allowed in the labor room for periods of time."(p.198)  This quote is showing me that even in the mid 1900's they were still asking the same question about what men did during the birth process and how it really affected the women.


Then you talk about how in some places it is normal for a man to be involved in the birth process.  "There were, however, a few places where men were central to births.  On Yap, a spit of an island in the south pacific between Guam, and new guinea, the father was the normal birth attendant."(p.201)  To me this shows that it really just depends on where the birth is taking place.  Because depending on the culture it may be different each time.  Obviously in this culture it is very natural for the father to be present but in the united states for a while the men were not supposed to be present during the birth process.


Lastly you talked about how it may not always be good to have the father present.  "Odent, who now lives in england and runs his primal Health Research Centre in London, had interviewed couples years after their babies had been born to research how the birthing event shaped their lives together.  He found that  having the father there isn't always the best.(p. 213)  This shows that not in all cases is it good for the father to be there.  In my opinion I don't really see how it could affect the baby if the baby has not yet been born.  But could it be that it is the mother being stressed and in some way passing that stress on to the baby.

HW 39 - Insights from Book - Part 2

Topics the book has taught me about "the business of being born":


-Birth can be a scary process that not everyone is ready for.
-Birth for some people is the most amazing thing that will ever happen in their lives.
-The process of birth is hardly ever natural.
-Midwifes are just as good as doctors at delivering babies.

The major insight that the book wants to point out in the second 100 pages is that the birth process is not what people think it is.  I agree with her because i feel like people have this fairy tale image in their head about how wonderful and easy birth is.  If people actually took the time to do some research and actually watch the video of a birth i think that their opinion on birth and their approach to it would completely change.  Like we discussed in class not many people actually look at videos of the birth process because they are afraid that something could potentially go wrong with their own birth process.  They don't want tot see the truth behind these situations.

5 interesting aspects of birth


-The actually birthing process and what people go through just to have a baby.
-The impact a baby has on peoples lives.
-Some people have a C section all so that they can produce a child
-People use these dangerous medicines that can potentially have harmful affects on their child.


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.


"Doctors get sued for caesareans they don't perform or don't perform quickly enough"


http://closermagazine.com/new/index.php?section=display&feature=Featured

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

The way that this book is organized is actually different from the other books i have read.  It is different in the way that the authors style of writing is very precise and she wants to really make the reader think about her opinion.  I think that the main question that the book tries to answer is there actually a natural way to have birth?  I would respond to this question by saying that i don't think that there is a natural way of having birth because in most cases something extra has to be done to the birth process to make it work.  For example if you ask to have drugs during the birth(legal drugs) then that makes the birth process un natural. The major insight that the book tries to focus on is that again the talk about having a natural birth is pretty unrealistic.  I agree with the author because she said something interesting, she said that birth is literally a twisted process, because sometimes the baby will have to be twisted to come out the right way.  That right there is something that makes the birth process un natural because something has to be done to make the process right.

Aspects:
1.) No birth is actually natural there is always something extra that happens.
2.) It is stupid that at one point men weren't allowed in the room during birth.
3.) Midwives are still a very important part of birth
4.) Birth is a weird and twisted process
5.) Birth is sacred

HW 37 Birth Stories Comments

Jay,

I really thought that you post was very thought provoking. As opposed to in my post when i gave the names of my people i interviewed your people wanted to be kept private. And i undertand why their story's are very personal and really show how they feel about this topic. I felt like your most insightful line was, "The mother I interviewed said birth was very traumatic, scary, and exhilarating. "




Larche,

Your style of writing was very fluent and it really showed me that you got a good understanding of what you were writing about. I really thought that your interviewees responses were great and it kept me very interested through out your post. I think your most insightful lines were, "For this interviewee, she described her all three of her births as "easy". She spoke of working right up until the day before giving birth to one of her children."


Rossi,

Your post was very interesting to me. I really felt like you understood the struggles that your interviewees were going through and like you actually wanted to interview them. I think your most insightful lines were, "It made me gain weight, obviously, and I became depressed. I have always been someone that cares a lot about my appearance and with this weight and appearance I had very low self esteem, even though I knew it was baby weight."

HW 36 - Pregnancy & Birth Stories

The first person that I interviewed was my mother.  I asked her to tell me the story of my own birth which I have heard many times.  Some of the really interesting things about my won birth that my mother told me was that she was only in labor with me for 3 hours.  Usually a women is in labor for about 8 hours and mine was a significant difference of 5 hours.  I was also told that I was a week early.  I was supposed to be born october 31 1994, but i was born october 24th 1994.  Since I was the second child my mother said that it was not as painful as when my brother was born since she had already experienced birth once before.
What is more scary to a mother, the birth while it is happening or the days leading up to the birth?

I interviewed my mother again but about my brothers birth.  When I asked about who's was more painful she told me that it wasn't even a question that my brothers was much more painful.  Since he was the first child she had never experienced birth before my brother.  She described it as much more uncomfortable then painful.  She also told me that just knowing she was doing all this to have a child made it worth it.  She disregarded all other distractions and the whole time was just thinking about having a family who she would love and would love her.
Why do parents cherish the moment of birth so much rather then the process?

The last person that i interviewed was my aunt.  She told me that her first experience with birth was when she had my older cousin.  She told me that it was actually a scarey experience for her.  It was scary for her because there was a problem with the birth process that she preferred i did not talk about but she did say i could say it was a life or death situation.  In these type of situations i think that sometimes it might not be worth if if you go through that whole process and in the process your most prized thing in life dies.  It is not worth going through all the painful memories.
When a child's life is in danger during birth who should have the say on what to do in the situation?

HW 34 - Some Initial Thoughts On Birth

Some things that i would like to know about birth is the whole process in particular.  I want to know whether a child who is born in their own home will be different then a child who was born in a hospital.  If that is so then why does this happen?  It could be because the environment is more comfortable in a way although the baby may not know it, it could have a big impact on their life.  In my opinion since the baby is so young then I don't think that it has much of an impact to them.  But the way that the parent chooses to shape their child's attitude has a huge impact on them because the child learns its attitude from their parents.  If your parents are rude and disrespectful then they will show their son to have an attitude just like that.

I also wanted to elaborate on the thought that chris talked about on his post.  He wanted to know if a child who was born into a rich family was more celebrated rather then a child who was born into a poor family.  I do think that it is more celebrated for a rich family because they can afford it.  When a poor family has a child they think of it as more money that they have to waste.  A rich family doesn't worry about the expenses because they feel that in their situation money isn't a problem so it gives them more of an opportunity to cherish their child. But this may not be true with all family's because some might want a kid so much that all the work they do to keep their child happy is worth it just as long as their child is having a good life.