Childbirth is a beautiful thing. After the hours of labor‚ there is nothing more special than having the newly mother able to hold her child the minute after it’s born. It makes the pain that you had just experienced go away because all that matters in the world is that newborn child in your arms. During labor‚ every woman has her own experience but one common experience is the pain. According to Kitzinger (1978) “Labor pain can have negative or positive meaning‚ depending on whether the child is
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English 1013 16 July 2014 Natural Childbirth Since the beginning of time women have stayed constant with two things‚ menstruating and childbirth. Childbirth one of the most beautiful and natural experiences of a woman’s life began to get compromised in the 1960’s with the invention of the Epidural “epidural anesthetic‚ used especially in childbirth to produce loss of sensation below the waist.”(Webster 782) Childbirth now means just the delivery of a child it can now be opened for interpretation
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Natural childbirth is where the mother does not receive any drugs to relieve pain or to aid the birthing process. Natural childbirth is considered to be the safest way for the baby to be born. It is healthier for the mom and baby. There is less chance of serious injury from iatrogenic trauma. You will have less chance of having a C-section. The mother has a much quicker healing time. If the mother plans on breastfeeding‚ she will have a much higher chance of a breastfeeding success and there is lower
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How Does Natural Childbirth Compare to Medicate Births? Jennifer Rasmussen COM/220 June 6‚ 2010 Julie Freydlin How Does Natural Childbirth Compare to Medicate Births? One of the most natural things for a woman’s body to do is give birth. Once a woman knows that she is with child‚ she begins deciding what will be best for her and her child whether it is what to eat‚ whether or not exercise‚ and even what her birth experience should be. Although it is difficult for women to go through the
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Choices are endless when it comes to childbirth methods. The most common method of delivery‚ vaginal birth is thought to be the “natural birth.” C-sections on the other hand‚ are used for birthing complications due to medical reasons. Both have tremendous complications and different emotional and physical effects. Both should be taken into consideration and should be consulted with a medical professional. Although Doctors give their medical input on how women should give birth‚ shouldn’t the mother
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physician Mosher observed inverse relationship of declining birthrate and increasing abortion rate. He hypothesized that women opted for “criminal abortion” to avoid childbirth pain. This sparked widespread attention from society to reduce the disincentives of childbirth. Hence‚ obstetricians made claims to be able to alleviate childbirth pain‚ creating a market for obstetrics. In 1900s‚ only 15% of deliveries were in hospitals (Jones‚ 1994)‚ after the ministry of health expanded maternal hospital facilities
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Samantha Argubright Child Development‚ 7th period March 1‚ 2013 Childbirth Options You probably wonder what really happens during pregnancy‚ how everything works and all the things you need to have to prepare for the child birth. Who will assist to deliver baby? Where will you have the baby? What kind of classes help you prepare? You can deliver the baby at any hospital you want or at home. Usually families have house midwifes‚ medical professional trained to help woman through normal
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Usually‚ medicalization could be defined as taking a natural process and turning them course into a medical process. An example of this is pregnancy; medicalization “involves interpreting pregnancy itself as a disruption to health that necessarily requires expert medical intervention‚” (Mullin‚ 54). Commonly‚ women are taught pregnancy is considered to be high risk that needs attention from a medical professional. Back then‚ women would have birth at any given location and presently‚ a set plan has
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United States that childbirth has become increasingly medicalined and specialized‚ first with family doctors or general practitioners taking over the process‚ then obstetricians‚ and today‚ perinatologist. These physician specialists are trained to see birth as an abnormal or pathological process requiring heroic interventions‚ rather than a natural process” (Kram and Eckstein‚ 1990). Midwives however view childbirth and pregnancy in a different light. They tend to view childbirth and pregnancy as
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Shelly focuses the fear of the female body and motherhood in terms of afterbirt rather jubilant aspect of childbirth. Although‚ she herself never experienced the anxiety and depression when childbirth occurs. For example‚ "Fear‚ guilt‚ depression ‚ and anxiety‚ are the most common reactions that new mothers would have about the birth of a new baby which is common a variety range of experience to giving birth . There are deeper reactions that can be find in literature‚ which are all written to
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