HW #38

1. The way she has structured the book is oranized, logical, coherent, and supports her claim. She de-veils cesarean sections and machines, the pros and cons; discuss women's role in supporting such ceremonies, and then reveals the consequences of such actions. She begins by "attacking" the industry, and then reflects upon how women’s actions have lead to such outcomes.

2. What is the childbirth reality in the U.S.A, and what say are mothers-to-be granted as the center of this procedure?

why do doctors seek the necessity in their patients?
What does the contract a women sign’s when going into labor at a hospital state?

3.Childbirth is rapidly becoming industrialized; an event that the authority can "control", "predict", "charge", with the gift of convenience. Women are being pushed by mother culture, insurance companies, and doctors to follow the model procedure.

I believe what has been stated above is very true and very scary but I believe it is partially at faulty of the women for not taking control of her body. I think that pregnancy (like many other things in our culture) have become soo scientific and have lost the beauty of spiritual beliefs. Such as if the women are not sure of her pregnancy she will have a complicated birth. I think women should become more in-tuned with their connection with the "thing inside them", and less preoccupied with the ultrasound every week. I also believe humans are sooooooo scared of death and this is where most of this nonsense sprouts.

4. Women need to be empowered, given the resources to be knowledgeable about their body, since we seem to not trust them. Humanity, (including me & author) must understand the reality that we can only be in control to a certain extent, the rest is up to nature. Insurance companies & the government need to support women’s capability of Physiological birth. Women have the right to decide what medical procedures they want conducted. My personal ever lasting question, is WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS ON THE EMOTIONAL/MENTAL STATE OF BABY, and the babies relationship with mother when born with drugs, and does not receive immediate mother skin to skin contact?

5. The book is written like a newspaper article. The sources are derived from statistics, interviews with doctors/patients, historical books, and her own experiences (greatest-least). She uses all her quotes in a manner that seems very bias, not reveling the whole truth. All the sources are footnoted and a bibliography is in the back. The way she places information I am not sure how creditable it is for her manner of piecing things together, a jigsaw like manner. She uses A LARGE AMOUNT of statistical facts and a slight amount of interviewed evidence to back this up; and all her topics become redundant rapidly. Her style of writing is deprived of BEAUTY, and is quite trying for the reader!