Birth Story 1:
My birth was a pretty dramatic experience for my mom and now makes a unique story. About a week before my due date, I did a somersault in my mom's stomach and the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck. My mom had a strong feeling that something went wrong so she went straight to the hospital. Before she knew it, she was under heavy drugs and had no choice but to have a cesarean section. My family considers this a blessing and from time to time we all think about how different things would have been if my mom didn't follow her instincts.It was interesting to hear how even though the umbilical cord wrapped around the babies neck the baby survived. Another interesting point was the fact that her family till this day still think her birth was a blessing.
This story fits in society's image of birth for the most part except for the baby being choked by its own umbilical cord (even tho it has happened before.) What about the babies position made the umbilical cord choke the baby? How could this have been prevented? and Was it the mother's fault or the babies fault?
I want to explore what makes an umbilical cord choke a baby.
Birth story 2:
My mother was in bed rest from 17 weeks to 32 weeks and it was pretty horrible. It was a normal vaginal delivery and it went as planned. I was not a fat baby but I was very chubby.
It was interesting that although the baby wasn't extremely fat and not premature the mom still had to be in best rest for such a long period of time.
Because of the vaginal delivery the pregnancy was normal, as for being bed ridden for so long I don't know how common that is. If the baby wasn't fat what made the mother bed ridden for so long? Also if the mother changed her diet could she have prevented the amount of time she was bed ridden?
I want to explore what about pregnancy makes the mother bed ridden.
Birth story 3:
There wasn't anything weird about my birth just things that occurred on my birthday were a little out of the ordinary. The first batman movie was put into theaters the day of my birth and after I was born my mother got a bear and left. I wish there was more to say about my birth but it was a perfect birth and my mother said it wasn't very painful.
It was interesting how the most memorable thing for the family is that on the day of the babies birth the batman movie came out, I found it humorous that her mother got a beer and just left without seeing if the baby was alright or not.
For society this birth is considered "normal" except for what occurred afterwards, the mother left and got a beer instead of checking on the baby. Aren't there procedure's that a mother has to follow before they leave the hospital?
I want to explore what procedures must be done before a mother leaves the hospital.
I thought your responses were very entertaining. I enjoyed the thought provoking questions you included in each response. For example, when you were discussing the story of the baby being choked by the umbilical cord and said, "What made the umbilical cord choke the baby? How could this have been prevented?" Those questions in particular really sparked my curiosity and made me think. It seemed as though you put a lot of effort into each response. In the future, make sure to spell check.
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ReplyDeleteI liked that most of the questions you asked were new and have not been discussed in class, so it'd be interesting to hear what our classmates view on them would be. The line I found was the best was where you went deeper into the baby story by asking questions than just making bubbles, "What about the babies position made the umbilical cord choke the baby? How could this have been prevented? and Was it the mother's fault or the babies fault?" What would have made your post even better was if you questioned these people you interviewed to go deeper into the bigger picture.But besides that, Good Job!
I like that you found three birth stories that were different and unique to one another. I thought it was interesting that you questioned the mothers diet in story two as if she could have prevented her baby from being fat. You questioned the mother’s actions in story one as if she did something to her stomach to almost lead her baby to death. I don’t think a mother would try to kill her child right before it is born. Do you think these things happed only because of the mother or are these things common? I think you could have elaborated on the story a bit more.
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