Hw#48

I interviewed two people in my family I asked them questions about past experiences on people that have died in there families. The first person I interviewed told me a story about her father in law. She told me that her father in law died and she decided to organize a funeral and she told me the process of getting your loved ones into funeral homes. She had to pay to put him in the funeral home and she told me she paid for the clothes her father in law would have on and she paid for the coffin and she wanted to have a wake for him. She said you must take care of the dead good and you must pray over them every day. She is very religious and she talked mostly about praying over the dead. The other person I interviewed was a kid i know he explained how his grandfather died and how his grandfather wanted to have a burial and a funeral. He told me how his parents took the planning very serious. When he went to the funeral he told me that it was a better nice funeral home and it cost a lot of money he didn't want to tell me how much his parents sent on it. I asked the kid what he thought about death and how he felt about it he said that everyone is going to die and how everyone has to live without regrets and he thinks that we all go to heaven and we will be fine when we die. He had good thoughts about death and he was very positive just like the first person I interviewed.

Hw#46

I dont have a lot of personal experience with the care of the dead except for when my grandfather died the whole process from when he died and when he got buried was a long process. We had to go to the hospital to confirm things I was very small at the time I wouldn't know what they had to confirm or sign. Then they bought a coffin and had to arrange dates with the funeral home. My parents wanted my grandfather dressed in a certain way and wanted him to look a certain way. When I think of funeral homes I think of a place to come together and meet and catch up and respect the person who has died. My grandfather wanted his death to be more like a party then just a funeral. I was taught to respect the dead and to never speak wrong about anyone who is dead. My parents especially my mom thinks we should help out with any care of the dead arrangements that come up in the family or with her friends she wants to help out as much as she can.

I guess you can say open caskets can be considered a social norm because plenty of people rather have there loved ones seen so everyone can look at him and touch him and for loved one's I've seen people kiss the dead. Many people like the idea of cremation which is when instead of having a open or closed casket funeral you burn the person into ashes and you can spread them out anywhere the person who died wants the ashes spread. I find that way very interesting and I found out that my parents rather be cremated instead of buried. Like I said before my parents have extreme respect for the people who have died and never talks downs to people who have died. They are religious people and they think talking about the dead is bad and should not be brought up without bringing up god.

Hw#44

Steph

You chose to go and dig deeper on adoption and you found restrictions and you found out about the thoughts of others on people adopting. I really enjoyed reading this post and I thought it was interesting that you did research on this topic. This project is important to me because now if I ever want to adopt I now know what I can do. You did a really good job!

Max, 

In this project you looked at different reasons why anyone would want to become an OB/GYN and how to become one. I valued all the information I was really interested how much you get paid to deliver babies. This project mattered to me because Im glad I know more about OB/GYN's. Maybe you could put more charts and about the salary's and statistics but I enjoyed the project good job!

Harry,

Your project was interviewing your friends dad and getting answers to the questions you wanted answered. I liked that your project was talking about overseas adoption because I never knew someone who adopted overseas and I find it extremely interesting. This project matters to me because if my wife cant get pregnant adopting overseas would definitely be on my mind. I enjoyed your project good job!

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.

Hw#40

Hey Peggy Vincent, Thanks for writing Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Midwife. You main argument comparing hospitals with doctors and midwifes and home birth. Your main argument made me think about pregnancy and birth and what makes women chose home births instead of birth in the hospital.

Well, in the last third of the book you focused on what you have to do and what you don't do when it comes to birth, which connects to the first 2/3rds of the book. But let me be more specific. 

1. Even though you are a licensed Midwife but you are not allowed to have any say in what happens when one of your own patients go to the hospital? You have been working with the mother the entire time but you have no voice in what happens Pg. 244

2. How come insurance has a part in what happens during a birth? Does the Midwife get paid from that insurance? Pg. 233

3. I thought that the quote in Pg.248 was very interesting "There's no money in dead baby cases" they just think about the money and not even how they lost the baby Pg.248

Well, let's be clear - your text sought to provide historical about midwifery and how it has changed over time and how it has impacted birth from the perspective of a midwife who you never really made it big or the book-reading-public to better understand pregnancy & birth in our culture. Given that aim, and your book, the best advice I would give for a 2nd edition of the text would be, to put things in your book about your peers experience and how they made it to a status of midwifery similar to yours. But I don't want you to feel like I'm criticizing. I appreciate the immense amount of labor you dedicated to this important issue and particularly for making me think about birth & pregnancy. In fact, I'm likely to do more research about home birth and I also think differently as a result of your book. The author replies, "Thanks! Talking to you gives me hope about our future as a society!"

Hw#39

The only difference between the book and the movie is that the book shows more personal experiences with babies and there mothers, the movie only shows natural normal births. For example there is a part on pg.136 where Peggy notices that the baby isn't coming out when its suppose to come out. In the movie they show natural and fast births. The book shows the same insight where it is trying to show the reader the life of a midwife and how they deal with different situations and how they deal with them. I enjoy reading the book and hearing the stories Peggy tells us through out the book so far. It is also interesting to hear that there are some kids in my class want to do midwife work because of the movie and the book. I was really interested in Spirit Babies and how that works on Pg.126 they talk about Spirit Babies and how every single mother has a Spirit Baby that will be there baby when they get pregnant and I wonder if all midwifes talk about that to the people they take care of.

http://www2.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab000352.html


In some countries almost all births happen in hospital, whereas in other countries home birth is considered the first choice for healthy and otherwise low-risk women. The change to planned hospital birth for low-risk pregnant women in many countries during this century was not supported by good evidence. Planned hospital birth may even increase unnecessary interventions and complications without any benefit for low-risk women. The review found only one small trial, which provided no strong evidence to favour either planned hospital birth or planned home birth for low-risk pregnant women.

Hw#38

I am reading Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent and it is organized into different parts and in each part there is a heading explaining something about the part that you are going to read. If I were to lay out a pregnancy book I would go through all my personal things in the beginning of the book so that as you read you get more into the baby stuff and not baby stuff then personal experiences and then baby stuff. So far in the book she is telling us her experience with birth and stories of when she was being a midwife. The essential question would be what do midwife experience during their job? or something similar. The book explains different things Peggy dealt with during her time as a midwife. There was one story that was sad to me in the beginning she goes into a house where a 13 year old gave birth and there were many other girls with different guys and I thought she would react and do something instead of letting it happen. I found it interesting that Peggy didn't see a lot of fathers at the pregnancy I'm wondering why. I also found it interesting how pregnant women really are uncontrollable at labor the first story about Zelda was crazy.