“The Business of Being Born” is a documentary directed by Abby Epstein. In this documentary Abby Epstein shows the viewers an inside look of the American Health care systems way of childbirth. The film compares all the different types of childbirths: midwives, natural births, Cesarean, and epidurals. The film uses many statistics to show viewers the many challengers doctors face in the hospital that can put the baby in harm. This documentary made me realize that hospital births are McDonaldization.…
This documentary shows many childbirth methods, for instance natural births, midwives, and cesarean section. It is mostly about using different techniques for deliveries. Due to the modern technologies, different ways are used for deliveries, such as using epidurals, forceps delivery, vacuum extraction, C-section and others. This revolution of technology has changed the childbirth from home through the natural ways to hospitals through medical processes.…
This study will show that participants who choose alternative birthing options will score higher on the Myer’s Life Satisfaction Scale than participants in the Traditional Hospital Birthing Options Group. It will also indicate that participants in the Alternative Birthing Options Group will have greater optimism (based on the Optimism/Pessimism…
Providing an effective care and support to the patient and for their babies during labour…
There are millions of people that populate our country and within these people there are several cultures. All of these cultures have their own set of values and beliefs when it comes to medial treatment. As nurses it is our duty to understand the specific beliefs of a culture and to respect their culture when giving them care. This paper discusses the specific customs of Chinese culture in regards to pregnancy with specific information on prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum rituals.…
When you have a baby you expect to be cared for and treated correctly. For the mother who don’t get what they need when the baby is born and end up dying after or a couple days after she has her baby. We talked about many women who had died after childbirth due to the fact they didn’t get the proper care they needed and deserved. So the lack of care makes it so they should have been healthy mother is no longer with her baby or husband. Same for when the women get c sections. Some of them are told they need a c…
Elliott-Carter, N., & Harper, J. (2012). Keeping Mothers and Newborns Together After Cesarean. Nursing For Women’s Health, 16(4), 290-295. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-486X.2012.01747.x…
To generate more money, hospitals have placed focus on efficiency, taking a woman through childbirth as quickly as possible. As a result, standard, predictable procedures are necessary. Technology is being used at an increasing rate, acting as a control over the natural process of childbirth. Overall, it seems that selling the idea of care is more important than the care itself.…
This medicalization of pregnancy is one of the many aspects of a woman’s health that has been deemed as an ailment and something that women cannot control. The patriarchal model that is responsible for the idea that women are essentially abnormal is rooted in the belief that women are victims of their hormones and reproductive systems and that pregnancy is pathological and a clinical crisis. Historically, this patriarchal model has been the reason why reproduction is seen as a biological defect rather than a natural occurrence. The issue of women’s reproductive health is also shown in the film as it shows how the health care system lacks the implementation of health education programs that would guide women through their options when it comes to childbirth.…
Before watching this film, I did not know about the “designer birth” which consists in scheduling deliveries and C-sections. This showed me how women prefer the medical aspect of birth that involves physicians. As one of the mothers said midwifery is “done”; it has become part of the past. In the US, midwives attend less than 8% of births because of technological and medical advances. Formerly, women including midwives used to give birth more than men before male doctors took over hospitals, turned them into “patriarchal” institutions and made business out of it. However, we have to recognize that they should be remunerated for their services. Some mothers perceive surgery as an efficient and less time consuming medical technique. It has become uncommon and rare to see ”fully” natural birth in hospitals. Doctors make decisions for monetary and legal reasons. These decisions can even affect the health of the mother or the baby. The use of Protozoan (medication that causes contraction) or Pitocin (helps inducing labor) and the practice of the Cesarean, which is a doctor-friendly technique, only reinforce the authority of doctors and the influence of their techniques on women bodies. Moreover, I found revolting that the United States has the second worst newborn death rate in the developed world. The medicalization of childbirth is challenging women’s confidence and self esteem. As one of the informant said “convince them that they do not know how to birth and the “power of birthing is taken away from…
Sometime ago, women face childbirth with fear and anxieties. They knew that childbirth could be a difficult and sometimes extremely dangerous experience for women and babies. “During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between 1 percent and 1.5 percent of all births ended in the mother’s death. A mother’s lifetime chances of dying in childbirth ran as high as 1 in 8…
Midwives are autonomous professionals who are responsible for delivering high quality and holistic care for women during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period’s .This involves working in close partnership with women to enable the provision of all necessary support, care and guidance (ICM, 2011). The midwife also has the important task of providing woman -centred care whilst always striving to promote normal birth (midwifery 20 20).…
Cooney shares her experience on having an unwanted pregnancy and the difficulties she went through to get a safe abortion. She also discusses the history of abortion access in the United States as well as the measures that have been taken to limit that access. The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision stated that a woman’s right to choose an abortion was protected under the equal protection clause of the fourteenth Amendment. In 2003, President Bush signed into law the Partial Birth Abortion Ban bill. Partial birth abortion is a term used by anti-choice advocates to describe an intact dilation and extraction abortion. It is used when the fetus becomes too large to vacuumed out. This procedure is performed when the woman’s life is in danger or…
Every year, more than three million infants are born in the United States. For the mother, one of the most important things is bringing the baby out from the womb safely into the world. The majority of women choose to birth their children in hospitals with doctors, mainly because it is believed that hospitals are the safest environment to birth a child. Others, decide to stick to what they consider a more natural option: at home births with midwives. Whatever the situation may be, the mothers have their child’s best interest at hand. The fact of the matter is, no matter how well one plans, and no matter how excellent a medical professional may be, sometimes complications are inevitable. Historically midwives did not have to be doctors, because…
To maintain confidentiality, the location of the clinical placement and the names of those involved will be omitted from the essay in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of conduct (2008). In order to follow the Gibbs model of reflection, the remainder of this section will now concentrate of examining the description of the incident and the feelings of those involved.…