Your post hit upon many interesting ideas I think could have benefitted from further elaboration. For example: "After hearing a very similar story to my first interviewee it made me wonder if subconsciously we set up the type of image we want to be seen as a pregnant person. If through our choices we connect the dots to make one sort of person. It then made me think about the stereotypical types of pregnant people floating around our society. The teenage mom, the Zen mom, the older mom, when and how we give birth seems to make more of a statement than the birth itself." Perhaps you could have touched upon this topic later, in connection to how your interviewees fit into these stereotypes.I liked your quote in the beginning, although (forgive my slowness) I didn't quite see its relevance to your interviews.
From Natalie: I thought this line was interesting: "However she joked that being pregnant made her feel like a queen, anything she wished for was someone else’s command."
We treat pregnant women so differently, but why? Is it because we want the best for the baby, this fresh new life coming into the world? Or are we really concerned with the mother, the pain she is going to feel? I believe most times people think about the baby when they do favors for the mother and no longer see her as her own person. One of my interviewees talked about how uncomfortable she felt with people touching her stomach, when they normally wouldn't have. I think this furthers the point that people see women as simple objects when they are pregnant. Everything is done in hopes that it will better the experience of the child on its journey into our world. People are consumed with the idea that this new impressionable life will appear, more than the place from which it comes.
From Rebecca (Younger): a. "No matter what mood she was in, one could always tell exactly how she was feeling."
b. It's weird that just because she was pregnant people could tell how she was feeling. It makes me question whether our personalities will change once we have children. Birth seems very complicated but pregnancy seems even more so...
from Rebecca
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To Casey: Casey: I really liked your post, and was struck by this line, “making families was just what people did. Family wasn’t really a question…the only question was timing”. This got me thinking about how our society maps out the normal way to live. It seems as though marriage and babies come hand in hand. It poses as sort of strange that if two people were to make a baby and didn't have the golden rings on their left hand then society as a whole would frown upon their decision... Why do the two have to go hand in hand? Why can't two people create something or move forward without a certificate?
To Natalie: Natalie: I really liked the contrast between all three of your interviewees. I found this line to be very insightful, "She feels deep compassion for the mother and the family and tries to achieve the perfect environment for the baby to come into and for the mother to thrive in. As sacred as she tries to make birth for the woman, she said that after becoming a midwife, she “realized how normal birth is.” " I was reading an article online about how woman have the instinct to give birth and yet we completely undermine this and go forward with different techniques. I wonder though if c-sections and hospital births were to become obsolete would the death rate rise? Is natural birth enough for the survival? Or would survival of the fittest become part of the picture?
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