HW 37

Comments I made:
Chris,
I like how you had a specific topic about birth that you wanted to look into opposed to just asking about their experiences. My favorite part was: "While the father is usually expected to be there for morale support and to make sure the baby will have a place to live and be happy, in her case the father was more hands on then she wanted and as a result to that it is kind of like he was also taking care of the baby for nine months. ". I thought this was interesting I had never heard of someone getting too much attention from a male during birth. I wonder why this was a problem for her.. Overall I thought it was a good post and I thought you did well explaining your thoughts about the male role during pregnancy and birth and you were able to get good examples that were different from each other.

Amanda:
I like how you chose people with all different views and explored what the woman's knowledge of the pregnancy and birth giving process mattered. This is kind of off topic but my favorite part was: "but it did scare her because she had never felt another life insider her before." This idea of having another life inside of you made me think about how that must affect the way a female feels about being pregnant. I thought you did well on showing your own opinions for each of the views right after you talked about what they people being interviewed thought.

Javon:
I thought this was really good I like how you listed out the key ideas in each interview and then went deeper into them after. My favorite part was: "In this interview the mother was concerned about the father's point of view about the pregnancy. I will like to do further research on how significant the mother believes the father's opinion is on the pregnancy. Also how important the father believes his opinion is on the pregnancy." This was interesting to me because it made me think about how both the mother and the fathers opinions on the pregnancy are important. The mother could want to keep the baby and the father doesn't want to (vise versa) but how will it affect the child and how will they feel about it? So it is interesting to think about who's decision is more important.

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Comments on my post:

Chris:
I think you did a good job in this post with showing a lot of the actual birth stories. The first paragraph is actually really engaging and i think this is because you didn't over analyze things at the beginning you just left it how the actual story was and that made me want to read more. I think you could have gone into more depth about that though to make your post stronger. I think you have some good analysis too but the best part of your post as the actual stories because they are your view of what your mom told you and its interesting to here about what you think. Your best line was "She feels like the way birth is viewed in America is very bad, she feels like it is viewed as scary and everyone wants to be drugged up so they don't feel the pain. She was not yelling while giving birth she was very calm and said it was not that bad" you talk a lot about what she thinks though and not enough about what you think! Thats how I think you can improve.

Mom's comment: I like that you described that a person may think of childbirth in different ways. "different people take pregnancy and giving birth more seriously than others. For example I saw how my mom read a lot of books and tried to understand the process as much as she could, she changed her diet, and she didn't drink alcohol at all while she was pregnant, just in general she seemed to really care a lot and want to do as much as she could to have a healthy birth." I think this is a great idea that you can further expanded upon. Today there is so much more knowledge about how to train your body/mind to prepare for an extreme physical challenge and about how to treat a newborn baby the first hours after birth etc. I also liked that you picked up on how different it is for female vs. male during the pregnancy.
"there was one more thing that she told me about. She said that it is hard for the male (my dad) to get interested until the baby is actually there and they are far into their pregnancy, so it has to be concrete, the baby actually has to be there and they have to feel the baby for them to be interested. But in the females case it is very different." I believe this is a topic that really needs some studying. How can a male get more engaged and feel part of the whole experience? I think you can develop more interesting aspects of child birth by expanding both these topics.

(The others didn't comment on my post yet.)