To abdullah,kane & Juan:
I totally agree that this project should have bein taken into more consideration. In future blogs or maybe even a little later perhaps during break when exhibition work gets a bit less hectic i will revise this blog and choose my words closer and add more to this blog.
To Amon:
I agree that maybe I could off added some more stuff in this paper to make this piece more intersting. A more solid argument would be a difficult task to tackle though because that could lead to a biased opinion formed. However I do believe that would call for a better revised paper. Thanks for your thoughts.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
HW 44 - Comments on Other People's Projects
My comments:
To Felipe:
I too like you want to see more doctors working hand in hand with the midwives and doulas in a more equal way. In my opinion i think midwives ans doulas are more important because unlike most doctors the doulas and midwives actually care about their patients.
I valued how you use evidence to get you to your next point. i also valued how you made everything clear to let the reader know what points you made and what point you are trying to get across.
This project matters to me because I wanted to have someone thoughts to compare to on this topic and i basically agree with everything you said here. I liked this paper and the only piece of advice i have is,i would only add
more about what you think on this subject.
To Ariel:
I can't believe your mother I had to go through all of that. I 100% agree with you when you say, Doctors don't really care about there patients and do what is most convenient for them.
What i valued about this post was how you gained insight from both your mothers past birth experiences as well as the movie to come to a conclusion of how you want to have a birth when the time comes.
The only thing i would do is, i would add more try to connect this experience to other peoples experiences taht you looked up. But Besides that this is really good paper and i enjoyed reading this.
To Natalie:
This is a really well written very informative post and clear post. I understood basically everything and I knew what points you were trying to get across.
I was shocked to see how many women had to go to the hospital to do a mandatory abortion.
The reason why I think your project is important is because you cite a whole bunch of things having to do with unecessary maandatory abortions and just in general this topic is really interesting and i think everyone should know about this.
Even though this was a good paper the only two little pieces of cold feedback i have is, you kind of repeat yourself in two paragraphs, and the other suggestion is to make it a little shorter. But besides that it was a really enjoyable paper to read and i definantly gained some new insights out of reading this.
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People iwho commented on my blog:
Kane said:
I liked the topic you choose.I learned new things here that i never even thought about. What you are learning is sooo cool.
In your project I liked how you use a whole lot of evidence to back up everything you're saying.
To make this project better i would say make it longer andcheck some new evidence to put into this blog
Juan said:
This blog made me think about the past birth's i had to go to because of my wife. The first thing i want to say is, i could tell you took sometime to find research, because you basically have research on everything your saying to back up what you're saying. I also liked how you were very informative in your blog by putting up statistics on how the birthing process has changed throughout the years. However one thing that i would do to better this post is to, come up with new insights either by looking some new things up, or watching some videos. And try to make this more interesting to read to get the reader to enjoy reading your blog.
To Felipe:
I too like you want to see more doctors working hand in hand with the midwives and doulas in a more equal way. In my opinion i think midwives ans doulas are more important because unlike most doctors the doulas and midwives actually care about their patients.
I valued how you use evidence to get you to your next point. i also valued how you made everything clear to let the reader know what points you made and what point you are trying to get across.
This project matters to me because I wanted to have someone thoughts to compare to on this topic and i basically agree with everything you said here. I liked this paper and the only piece of advice i have is,i would only add
more about what you think on this subject.
To Ariel:
I can't believe your mother I had to go through all of that. I 100% agree with you when you say, Doctors don't really care about there patients and do what is most convenient for them.
What i valued about this post was how you gained insight from both your mothers past birth experiences as well as the movie to come to a conclusion of how you want to have a birth when the time comes.
The only thing i would do is, i would add more try to connect this experience to other peoples experiences taht you looked up. But Besides that this is really good paper and i enjoyed reading this.
To Natalie:
This is a really well written very informative post and clear post. I understood basically everything and I knew what points you were trying to get across.
I was shocked to see how many women had to go to the hospital to do a mandatory abortion.
The reason why I think your project is important is because you cite a whole bunch of things having to do with unecessary maandatory abortions and just in general this topic is really interesting and i think everyone should know about this.
Even though this was a good paper the only two little pieces of cold feedback i have is, you kind of repeat yourself in two paragraphs, and the other suggestion is to make it a little shorter. But besides that it was a really enjoyable paper to read and i definantly gained some new insights out of reading this.
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People iwho commented on my blog:
Kane said:
I liked the topic you choose.I learned new things here that i never even thought about. What you are learning is sooo cool.
In your project I liked how you use a whole lot of evidence to back up everything you're saying.
To make this project better i would say make it longer andcheck some new evidence to put into this blog
Juan said:
This blog made me think about the past birth's i had to go to because of my wife. The first thing i want to say is, i could tell you took sometime to find research, because you basically have research on everything your saying to back up what you're saying. I also liked how you were very informative in your blog by putting up statistics on how the birthing process has changed throughout the years. However one thing that i would do to better this post is to, come up with new insights either by looking some new things up, or watching some videos. And try to make this more interesting to read to get the reader to enjoy reading your blog.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
HW 42 - Pregnancy & birth culminating project
U.S citizens choosing abortion over premarital adoption
In today’s modern society women have two options to choose from when dealing with birth, they could either have the baby or not have the baby. Now if the mother decides to have the baby that’s great and she just opened a new chapter in her life. However if the mother for what ever reason decides to not have the child there are either two things you could do, being she could have an abortion or the mom could choose to but the baby up for adoption.
It’s only natural that a pregnant women that doesn’t want the child would either kill the child and do an abortion or choose to give it up and put it up for adoption. In fact based on my resources I found out that 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient). I also found out that the amount of abortions happening in the U.S. is very high. In the United States the number of abortions happening per year is Approximately 42 Million, with Approximately 115,000 abortions happening per day. (Alan)
It appears as though in the U.S there are much more women deciding to go through with abortion over premarital adoption. For example In the 1970’s there was only 8.7% of women putting there child up for adoption, and the percentage has only decreased since then. In addition in the U.S. there is only a mere 2% of unmarried women placing their child up for adoption. This is shocking to me because I would think that the mother after dealing with the 9 months of labor and actually giving birth all by themselves would leave them wanting a companion, but as statistics show the woman actually don’t want to deal with there baby. ("Placing Children")
Undoubtedly there are many reasons on why pregnant women would want to adopt there child or go with the abortion option. However over the years it appears as though the women in the United states don’t want to give up there child because over the years adoption rates have decreased but would much rather kill it, which proved that some women just don’t want the companion of a baby for whatever reason. However this whole project got me thinking that maybe adoption is the better way to go but of course this is only my opinion and everyone is entitled to have there own opinions.
Citations
Alan, Guttmacher. "Abortion facts ." The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform . Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1996-2008. Web. 6 Apr 2011
"How Many Women Place Their Children for Adoption?." Placing Children. Adoption Media, 2001. Web. 6 Apr 2011.
In today’s modern society women have two options to choose from when dealing with birth, they could either have the baby or not have the baby. Now if the mother decides to have the baby that’s great and she just opened a new chapter in her life. However if the mother for what ever reason decides to not have the child there are either two things you could do, being she could have an abortion or the mom could choose to but the baby up for adoption.
It’s only natural that a pregnant women that doesn’t want the child would either kill the child and do an abortion or choose to give it up and put it up for adoption. In fact based on my resources I found out that 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient). I also found out that the amount of abortions happening in the U.S. is very high. In the United States the number of abortions happening per year is Approximately 42 Million, with Approximately 115,000 abortions happening per day. (Alan)
It appears as though in the U.S there are much more women deciding to go through with abortion over premarital adoption. For example In the 1970’s there was only 8.7% of women putting there child up for adoption, and the percentage has only decreased since then. In addition in the U.S. there is only a mere 2% of unmarried women placing their child up for adoption. This is shocking to me because I would think that the mother after dealing with the 9 months of labor and actually giving birth all by themselves would leave them wanting a companion, but as statistics show the woman actually don’t want to deal with there baby. ("Placing Children")
Undoubtedly there are many reasons on why pregnant women would want to adopt there child or go with the abortion option. However over the years it appears as though the women in the United states don’t want to give up there child because over the years adoption rates have decreased but would much rather kill it, which proved that some women just don’t want the companion of a baby for whatever reason. However this whole project got me thinking that maybe adoption is the better way to go but of course this is only my opinion and everyone is entitled to have there own opinions.
Citations
Alan, Guttmacher. "Abortion facts ." The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform . Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1996-2008. Web. 6 Apr 2011
"How Many Women Place Their Children for Adoption?." Placing Children. Adoption Media, 2001. Web. 6 Apr 2011.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
HW 41 - Independent Research
Culminating project -academic project
-NYC abortion options
Source: Adapted from: www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
How abortion is always a choice. Also lets you know a little bit more thiongs about what that person will be getting themselves into if they want an abortion.
-Best practices for doctors to not dominate patients during this process
by Diana Korte and Roberta Scaer http://www.pregnancy.org/article/choosing-birth-experience-you-want
This article talked about how doctors seem to be in control of everything. Also how rates on mid wifes had increased as well as increase/decrease rates of many other interesting things.
-Adoptions in NYC
http://www.nyc.gov/html/acs/html/become_parent/become_parent.shtml
This source provided information on adoption. What you will be responsible for and what your are getting yourself into. As well as talking about how great of a thing they think adopting is.
-Government support for pregnant women and mothers in poverty - if you're poor and becoming a mother in NYC what programs could help you and how would you apply?
http://family.jrank.org/pages/1312/Poverty-Welfare-Program-Example.html
This article talks about the system and how if your poor you are entitled for the government to help you out and give you money. As well as other benefits to make that persons life less stressful.
-Prenatal strengthening and nutrition and exercise and self-care
http://www.enotes.com/nursing-encyclopedia/childbirth-education
This article talks about different ways to be better prepared for when the woman actually has to give birth, Both physically and mentally.
-NYC abortion options
Source: Adapted from: www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
How abortion is always a choice. Also lets you know a little bit more thiongs about what that person will be getting themselves into if they want an abortion.
-Best practices for doctors to not dominate patients during this process
by Diana Korte and Roberta Scaer http://www.pregnancy.org/article/choosing-birth-experience-you-want
This article talked about how doctors seem to be in control of everything. Also how rates on mid wifes had increased as well as increase/decrease rates of many other interesting things.
-Adoptions in NYC
http://www.nyc.gov/html/acs/html/become_parent/become_parent.shtml
This source provided information on adoption. What you will be responsible for and what your are getting yourself into. As well as talking about how great of a thing they think adopting is.
-Government support for pregnant women and mothers in poverty - if you're poor and becoming a mother in NYC what programs could help you and how would you apply?
http://family.jrank.org/pages/1312/Poverty-Welfare-Program-Example.html
This article talks about the system and how if your poor you are entitled for the government to help you out and give you money. As well as other benefits to make that persons life less stressful.
-Prenatal strengthening and nutrition and exercise and self-care
http://www.enotes.com/nursing-encyclopedia/childbirth-education
This article talks about different ways to be better prepared for when the woman actually has to give birth, Both physically and mentally.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
HW 40 - Insights from Book - Part 3
"Hey Tina Cassidy thanks for writing Birth. Your main idea about how birth is performed and how the birthing process have changed over the years made me rethink pregnancy and birth.
The part that really stood out to me was the part where it talked about the tools that were being used to "Well, in the last third of the book you focused on" the men not being allowed to be in the same room as there mates aswell as the mother to not bond as much with the babies as the mother wants. Which further developed the first 2/3rds of the book. But let me be more specific." And then you listed the top 3 ideas/pieces of evidence/insights/questions from that final third of the book.
#1) At the end of the 1960's, only 15 percent of men were attending the births of their children. (pg.207)
#2) They are convinced they cannot give birth without the participation of the bby's father.(pg. 214)
#3) As late as 1958, a survey of three thousand U.S. hospitals found that only three hundred allowed mothers and child to remain together. (pg. 226)
"Well, let's be clear - your text sought to provide policy analysis from the perspective of a actual person who deals with and enforces the hospital policies. for 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 gain some new infromation and to get some new people in the book that has gone through the un just birth and pergnancy process. 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 the tools being dealt to help the patients & the process the patients have to go through. In fact, I'm likely to keep all this information regarding this book in mind so i could make sure that when i go through this process with my wife nothing un just happens.
The part that really stood out to me was the part where it talked about the tools that were being used to "Well, in the last third of the book you focused on" the men not being allowed to be in the same room as there mates aswell as the mother to not bond as much with the babies as the mother wants. Which further developed the first 2/3rds of the book. But let me be more specific." And then you listed the top 3 ideas/pieces of evidence/insights/questions from that final third of the book.
#1) At the end of the 1960's, only 15 percent of men were attending the births of their children. (pg.207)
#2) They are convinced they cannot give birth without the participation of the bby's father.(pg. 214)
#3) As late as 1958, a survey of three thousand U.S. hospitals found that only three hundred allowed mothers and child to remain together. (pg. 226)
"Well, let's be clear - your text sought to provide policy analysis from the perspective of a actual person who deals with and enforces the hospital policies. for 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 gain some new infromation and to get some new people in the book that has gone through the un just birth and pergnancy process. 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 the tools being dealt to help the patients & the process the patients have to go through. In fact, I'm likely to keep all this information regarding this book in mind so i could make sure that when i go through this process with my wife nothing un just happens.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
HW 39 - Insights from Book - Part 2
Business of Being Born:
-Over the years there have bein many new "medical treatments" to help the pregnant woman endure less pain during birth, However the problem with this is that the shots that were given to the woman to help her feel less pain was not even approved and not a safe drug that should be iven to the pregnanat woman.
-I have also learned that doctors want to make there lives easier so they take the easy way out and use machines that'll take the babies out at a more rapid rate.
- The doctors also seem to ignore everything that the mom says. Although the doctors do listen to what the mother is saying the doctor seems to make things go the way they want and not by what the mothers want.
The major insight the book tries to communicate:
In the second hundred pages the book tries to tell its readers of how for many years woman have always had to go through a very humiliating process. How the doctors procedures aren't always the best, and how the doctors procedures could lead to the womans death.
"Woman have tolerated unnatural labor position, little snips, humiliating enemas, unnecessary shavings, dangerous instruments, embarrasing hospital gowns, and tight labor schedules for hundreds of years." (Pg. 161)
"Hoping to bring down her temperature, doctors withdrew fifty ounces of blood. Her Pulse, and her strength, steadily weakened. Then she died."(pg. 162)
5 interesting aspects of pregnancy and birth:
-The history of the C-section
- Going through birth while having a disease
- originally when the tools were to be used and how the doctors changed when to use these tools to help themselves
-If men more suitable to be doctors
- is birth giving considered a disease
one crucial factual claim by the author:
http://tinacassidy.blogspot.com/
-Over the years there have bein many new "medical treatments" to help the pregnant woman endure less pain during birth, However the problem with this is that the shots that were given to the woman to help her feel less pain was not even approved and not a safe drug that should be iven to the pregnanat woman.
-I have also learned that doctors want to make there lives easier so they take the easy way out and use machines that'll take the babies out at a more rapid rate.
- The doctors also seem to ignore everything that the mom says. Although the doctors do listen to what the mother is saying the doctor seems to make things go the way they want and not by what the mothers want.
The major insight the book tries to communicate:
In the second hundred pages the book tries to tell its readers of how for many years woman have always had to go through a very humiliating process. How the doctors procedures aren't always the best, and how the doctors procedures could lead to the womans death.
"Woman have tolerated unnatural labor position, little snips, humiliating enemas, unnecessary shavings, dangerous instruments, embarrasing hospital gowns, and tight labor schedules for hundreds of years." (Pg. 161)
"Hoping to bring down her temperature, doctors withdrew fifty ounces of blood. Her Pulse, and her strength, steadily weakened. Then she died."(pg. 162)
5 interesting aspects of pregnancy and birth:
-The history of the C-section
- Going through birth while having a disease
- originally when the tools were to be used and how the doctors changed when to use these tools to help themselves
-If men more suitable to be doctors
- is birth giving considered a disease
one crucial factual claim by the author:
http://tinacassidy.blogspot.com/
Monday, March 14, 2011
HW 38 - Insights from pregnancy & birth book - part 1
If I was to write a book about pregnancy and birth i would do the same thing Tina Cassidy did in her book, "Birth." I acknowledged the fact that she dedicated the book to people and how in the first sentence of her first pharagraph she already gave us insight about birth.
Major question the book tries to answer:
1) The amount of questions the people have that are currently dealing with birth?
"Could it possibly be true that even in early twentieth -century America, women delivering in hospitals were more liekely to die there than if they had given birth at home? That poor woman were used as obstetrical guinea pigs? (Pg. 7)
2) Who's really more helpful men are midwives?
"Once Bourgeios became a famous midwife, however, she began publicly attacking surgeons for their middlesome mistakes that complicated what should have been moraml births."(Pg. 36-37)
The insight the book, "Birth" tries to give us in the first 100 pages are how there there is no one perfect way of giving birth. How everyone's situation of giving birth will be different. How both the guy and girl go through so much and go crazy because of the situation there in.
Response to insight:
I believe that everyones birth experience is different and hard. I feel especially sorry for all rhe people that have to go through the birthing process alone. In the book all the people dealing with pregnancy and birt seem to be going crazy and are stressed enough even with there partners so i couldnt imagine how they could get through this process if they were alone.
5 interesting aspects of pregnancy and birth:
Cesarean sections are very useful but dangerous
soon to be parents deserve to get extra attention
Doctors changed the way things are performed to help the people as well as themselves
Midwifes are very useful
Giving birth at a home like envirenment is a good alternative if you dont want to give birth at the hospital
The author uses real people to gain insight on birth and pregnancy. She also uses this information to make arguements. I find this evidence to be very reliable for there are alot of people that are going through the birth and pregnancy situation . The author's whole book is evidence, however this doesn't interupt or stall the book at all. It makes the book more intersting and more enjoyable to read.
Major question the book tries to answer:
1) The amount of questions the people have that are currently dealing with birth?
"Could it possibly be true that even in early twentieth -century America, women delivering in hospitals were more liekely to die there than if they had given birth at home? That poor woman were used as obstetrical guinea pigs? (Pg. 7)
2) Who's really more helpful men are midwives?
"Once Bourgeios became a famous midwife, however, she began publicly attacking surgeons for their middlesome mistakes that complicated what should have been moraml births."(Pg. 36-37)
The insight the book, "Birth" tries to give us in the first 100 pages are how there there is no one perfect way of giving birth. How everyone's situation of giving birth will be different. How both the guy and girl go through so much and go crazy because of the situation there in.
Response to insight:
I believe that everyones birth experience is different and hard. I feel especially sorry for all rhe people that have to go through the birthing process alone. In the book all the people dealing with pregnancy and birt seem to be going crazy and are stressed enough even with there partners so i couldnt imagine how they could get through this process if they were alone.
5 interesting aspects of pregnancy and birth:
Cesarean sections are very useful but dangerous
soon to be parents deserve to get extra attention
Doctors changed the way things are performed to help the people as well as themselves
Midwifes are very useful
Giving birth at a home like envirenment is a good alternative if you dont want to give birth at the hospital
The author uses real people to gain insight on birth and pregnancy. She also uses this information to make arguements. I find this evidence to be very reliable for there are alot of people that are going through the birth and pregnancy situation . The author's whole book is evidence, however this doesn't interupt or stall the book at all. It makes the book more intersting and more enjoyable to read.
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