Saturday, March 9, 2013
Business of Born
After watching the Business of Being Born in class on Thursday it brought up many questions. When women go into labor or are induced in a hospital there are doctors and nurses everywhere to help. The video made it seem like these doctors and nurses were there just to hurry the processes along and get the women in and out of the hospital as fast as they can. When in reality the doctors and nurses are just trying to make the women as comfortable as possible and insure that the birth of her child is safe. I understand that midwifes are able to do all the test that are needed to insure a baby is fine after birth, but what about when a child is born and things go wrong, i feel that there are just things that can only be done in a hospital.
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I agree with this, what if something were to go wrong what happens? In the video they basically just kept telling us that it rarely ever happens. Yes, it's understandable that the chance of something serious going on with home birth isn't likely to happen, but they still never told us what they do when something like this does happen. It should be answered though, because I think it's one of the biggest fears women question when considering home birth, and I'm sure it also turns many mothers away from home birth.
ReplyDeleteIthink the film did have a bit of certain bias to it. Regardless it did bring up a few good points. But I agree with what you said. Although it is financially impossible for hospitals to provide 1 on 1 treatment, they do try their best to be accommodating and efficient. It would a HUGE medical/moral dilemma if doctors were really forcing the medication upon the mothers when they did not need it. They are simply trying to help out the birthing process as they have been taught in medical school. Perhaps a bad but relatable example: as we use aspirin to cope with head-aches, mothers take heavier doses to cope with the pains of labor. Let us be thankful for the advancement of medicine to point where mothers dying during birth is nearly non-existent and infant deaths are at a minimum than years ago.
ReplyDeleteI can agree that the film was not completely impartial. You've touched on just one small point though. While it is true that in the event of a complication may occur during the process of labor, one has to consider that some of the problems that happen during labor are actually induced by all the drugs provided by the hospital in the first place. While it's true that you're probably better off to be in a hospital if something goes wrong, it's equally as true that the infant mortality rate in the United States is actually worse than some third world countries. My point being, there has to be some sort of correlation here. Clearly the Hospitals aren't doing what they need to, and perhaps a more natural approach may benefit the birth mother, rather than getting her all hopped up on drugs to alleviate the pain. Whatever the matter may be the fact still remains that infant mortality rates are much higher than they should be for a country like America that has such advanced medical technology.
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