Wednesday, April 6, 2011

HW 42

For the project Chris, Kevin and I wanted to go to a hospital and record what it's like in the hospital where they have births. I thought that this was a good idea because during the unit we watched the movie that showed us almost all home births and everything was biast leaning towards the more "natural" way and making the hospital seem horrible. We tried to get into 3 hospitals to do this project but we were rejected from 2 and didn't have enough time to get a letter from our school for the third one. So here we were on tuesday afternoon with nothing. Our plan didn't work out. So instead we put together a list of questions to ask a pediatrician that Chris and I know. She obviously isn't directly related to birth but we figured she has more knowledge then your average person and we can get a pro hospital point of view. Then we hit the streets with a video camera and tried to interview as many people as we could. We had heard the views of our classmates and our parents but I wanted to see what the rest of the society thinks. We went through a lot trying to get people to talk to us. We got chased out of Babies 'R us, and turned down by a bunch of people. Some people just didn't bother responding when we tried to get their attention and some said that they didn't feel comfortable talking about it, and some people just straight up sucked at answering questions. The fact that it was hard for us to interview people made me think about how birth is separated from our society. This one woman seemed sooooo uncomfortable when we asked her about it and I was thinking why? One person we interviewed just didn't want to go deep into their answers at all just like 2 word answers. I also noticed that the women we talked to didn't seem to even know as much as us. They didn't have birth plans, they wanted to take drugs so they didn't feel the pain. Butttt I don't want to just explain the videos because there will be no point of the videos.. So overall I would say everyone seems so into birth and they want to have kids but it seems like they're not sure about anything they just want to have a baby. The whole area between being pregnant and having a baby in your arms seems like a fog...

Some of the interviews:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGqNiRWj_4k


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKeEqRq9KX8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMJndw620lk





Q and A with pediatrician:



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3 comments:

  1. normalisweirdCHRISApril 11, 2011 at 5:40 PM

    Your post was about interviewing women about different aspects on birth. I think that your post could have talked more about the experiences before we got the interviews because you do reflect on things but you don't establish anything about how you felt before. Something that I think your post had of value was the video of the interview because the interpretation of what someone said and the way they actually sad things makes a big difference. Your project was valuable to me because we did the same project and I like that we tried to learn about something not taught in class

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  2. JasperApril 12, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    Mom's comment:
    I believe you are right that many women are uncomfortable to talk about childbirth especially with strangers. Even young women today seem to have little or no knowledge about planning and prepare themselves both physically and mentally for a birth. The interview with the expecting mother was good, and she had definitely thought about it. Interesting that was determined to have a natural birth. Too bad you were not able to visit a hospital or a midwifery.

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  3. normalisweirdCHRISApril 13, 2011 at 5:05 PM

    In the post I did not make anyone seem stupid I promise. I just make it seem like that in the comment because we did the same project as a joke. Duh Winning! Anyway, I appreciated the comment and have very little to say in response because we did the same thing. You and I should work together again for other projects but actually be able to do the idea we want to do.

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