Hw#42

Jay, Rossi and I went to Roosevelt Hospital and went to the labor unit in the hospital. We interviewed 3 people at the hospital the Nurse Manager of the whole labor unit, a Nurse who wanted to be unanimous and we interviewed the Director of the Parent/Family Education section of the hospital. We asked them questions about there job and about home birth vs. hospital births. When we interviewed the Nurse Manager she said something really interesting when we asked her the question Do you think its right that doctors are trained to think of birth as a surgical procedure? and she said "its not that doctors aren't trained I don't think they are educated enough in the ways of natural birth" that answer really surprised me because I wouldn't expect the Nurse Manager of the whole labor unit in a hospital to say something like that. We asked the Nurse who wanted to be unanimous Do you think the use of epidoral and pitocin are beneficial toward the mother or baby? she said how she would rather have birth be as natural as possible and she also said doctors are forgetting to births natural and how they need to go back to the old ways of how births were she also explained how she loved the movie we watched in class.