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comments on my blog:
my dad:
Amanda's interviews of 3 different women and their views on pregnancy and child birth were interesting and revealing. Margerita's view that hospitals are only for those who are sick, injured or dying is one I have never heard before. I have to agree with Rachael's observation that what the mother eats and drinks while she is pregnant can effect the health of the child. I also agree with Sam that many hospital interventions in childbirth in the USA are due to the mother's lack of knowledge of birth and the processes of pregnancy and childbirth. Regarding Amanda's curiosity about why people have babies, as a parent by design and choice it is my feeling that having children provides an opportunity for building a family.


Jasper classmate:
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 classmate:
The best part about your post was the three different outlooks you had examined on birth. It was also good how you the you made the people being interviewed elaborate on their answers; giving insight to their ideas. The most significant part of your post in my opinion was ; ""Its important to be prepared, to an extent but it is more important to trust the process [of giving birth], because its natural." This connects to the dominate cultures view on birth. This quote help shows that most people believe having children is what we are all suppose to do and is a standard majority of people follow.


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abdullah:
Hey Abdullah,
I think your best line is “I feel as if the only thing they could have done in the situation is hold the mother's hand or told the mother repeatedly how it would all be okay” this caused the most reaction out of all the other lines in your post, I think it certainly depends on the person father/spouse willingness to be in the delivery room. I know it would mean a hell of a lot for the father of my child to be in the room, yet to hold my hand maybe, but more so I know they had a closer to equal experience in the birthing process. Just because the man/woman isn’t the one giving birth doesn’t mean they should be allowed to be excluded from the process.
I found your post interesting because I enjoyed comparing and contrasting our interviews. when I first started to discuss birth and pregnancy with my interviewees I received a lot of information that I could have predicted such as, the couple attended birthing classes, or giving birth was difficult and it hurt, I also liked the line "All of the stories that my interviewees had told me just highlighted all the information that I already knew about birth and really did not give me any new insight." because I came across this problem early in my interviews, and enjoyed how you bluntly said I the interviews reaffirmed previous knowledge. You could possibly get past this in the future so you can gain deeper insight by asking the interviewees why they think they choose to go to a hospital.
Good work, Amanda.


Felipe: 

My favorite line was "we came to the conclusion that we would both like to have a child and raise him/her the way we would have liked to have been raised.” This for me gave me an alternative point of view for why people have babies. In this case it was to make up for the kind of parenting your parents wish they had had growing up. I liked how you used direct quotes to answer each question and added personal thoughts after the quotes, so basically i liked the format, because it allowed me to see the exact wording your mother used.

Nice work, Amanda