birth stories....

I was born in Beth Israel hospital on union sq. My parents and older brother were living at 14 st. at the time, where i also lived for the next 11 years. it wasnt a far ride to the hospital, it was about 2 avenues away. I was born arnd 9:45 a.m. and was delivered very fast from what im told. My head was too big supposedly to come out so the doctors performed an episiotomy on my mother.

Someone in my class said that they're mother went into labour with them and they drove all the way to queens to be delivered because they had a family doctor who was to deliver her.

Another friend of mine, also in my class told me that his mom's water broke and she was alone and had to wait for his dad to come and pick him and his mother up and drive them to the hospital.

I saw a tv show one time where the group of people had just thrown the pregnant mother a very late baby shower, late because as the party ended and the mother was heading home, an earthquake had occured (california) and the elevator car she was in had lost power along with the rest of the building. By the time they could get the power back on The baby was delivered in the elevator by two people that had been escorting the mom.

My feelings on old ppl...

I remember when i was younger i used do community service with the Boys club at the Cabrini nursing home over in the Lower East Side. I met a whole group of old people and each one had interesting stories to share with me. I met one man named Mr. Beach, who played checkers with me, and was playing wrong, i didnt say anything to him tho because he was old and in his bed and gown. It wasnt that he didnt know how to play the game, but that he forgot alot of things in his life. He wasnt the only one i had met like that. I went back the next month to visit Mr. Beach with the Boys Club group, but had to spend my hours with another elderly woman instead because i remember the receprtionist telling me that Mr. Beach had to be rushed to the hospital just the night before. which was weird for me, seeing how i was really young and was prepared to play boring checkers again but instead he was hospitalized, idk how to explain but anyways, i met an elderly woman who was telling me a little bit about herself. she told me that she was 27 years old, and was telling me something that had happend to her recently, but in reality happened to her when she was 27. She also told me of how she ended up in the nursing home, which was because of her son. She was walking down the street and fell on her back behind a car, and a man entered the car and was ready to pull out of the parking spot when he noticed someone behind his wheels through the mirrors. It was her son and his car, and found his own mother lying on the ground, not taking care of herself. He then put her in a nursing home because she was unable to tend for herself. I dont have comments on the story although when writing it now at this very moment i rethink this memory i have, and hear the story to be almost made up as to what really happened to her. it probably was just her way of thinking at her late age, just as she told me she was 27 years old, she looked to be about 67 idk.

Questions we came up with

What are the percentages of women who become pregnant from rape?
Do abortions create risk for women and they're future pregancies?
Do epidurals effect women or they're babies after pregnancy?
How much does abortion cost?
What are the percentages of women who get they're tubes tied, and how many children do they have before they get the procedure?
Do women who have babies at a very late age create a risk for the newborn child?
What are the percentages of those women who have babies at a very late age?
Do those women who are pregnant at those late ages take or ever have taken forms of epidurals?
Those who have had they're tubes tied and still become pregnant, is there any effects towards the baby?
what are the percentages of those who get they're tubes tied before even having they're 1st child?

research on 10-12 questions on AWOL/AWOB

Most of the questions asked in our class were related to each other or slightly, just slightly different. I did research on some on some of these questions, and also the questions that were created within my own group. Questions that were considered were revolved around Tubes tied, Abortions, Drugs in labour, And percentages of different kind of pregnancies.

Tubal Ligation, or having one's tubes tied, is considered to be a permanent procedure because of the small chance of getting pregnant even after a reversal. Even becoming pregnant after having your tubes tied can occur. It happens to 5 out of 1,000 women over 1 year. Over a total of 10 years, about 18 of those 1,000 women will report their unexpected pregnancy after having there tubes tied.
(http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/tubal-ligation-and-tubal-implants)

A study pf 11,800 women supports researchers on their hypothesis that medical abortions do not increase the risk of future miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies (complications in pregnancy), or low birth-weight. The cost of an abortion depends on the stage of pregnancy, where you live, insurance, etc. a first trimester is roughly about $300-$600. a second trimester is roughly about $500-$5,000.
(http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/abortion/AN00633)
(http://www.fwhc.org/qa/ab-cost2.htm)

Given epidurals during a woman's pregnancy are said to have some side effects well after, or even during labour. Epidurals can take up to an extra hour longer to deliver than natural childbirths. Blood pressure may drop severely, 1-2% of cases only, drop in blood pressure may lead to a drop in the baby's heart rate. The woman may be unable to feel contractions or be ablwe to push, which can increase the possibility of having to have a c-section. Also, very rare, but woman may develop a seizure.
(http://www.parentingweekly.com/pregnancy/pregnancy_information/epidural.htm)

There are said to be different terms used for rape. "assualt rape" and "date rape". Pregnancies from assault rape are extrememly rare. A study take in Arkansas, which was said to have been the lack of available studies and accurate studies, is said that 5-10% of women become pregnant due to assault rape.
(http://www.christianliferesources.com/?library/view.php&articleid=461)
This link was so helpful and useful. there is so much said information and goes very deep into the topic that it jumps into other categories as well. To get a deeper understand of what is said above you should really read the last article.

My feelings on Birth...

Birth is supposed to be a beautiful thing. A child being brought into this world is always something special. I've never been asked before how i feel about it though. Ive never heard anyone ever say before that they 'hate' the process of birth. Everyone in this world is brought into it through natural birth. Ive never saw a birth take place yet, but im pretty sure that one day, possibly when it is myself having the child with a woman, ill see the process take place and i wont think nothing of it. I would be mature about the entire thing and hold my ground, unlike those silly fathers in movies that you see faint to the speck of blood that is shown to them.

Ive always hated the saying by mothers "I brought you into this world, and i'll be the one to take you out", a common phrase used when their children are acting up. I also hate when woman beat their husbands in arguments debating that nothing they do is as difficult as 'giving birth'. i understand that carrying the child for nine months is difficult but so if having to wake up at 3 in the morning and get your wife some chicken with eggs or w.e. weird meal she is craving.

Learning now about all the terms for pregnancy in Andy's class is molding my thoughts to be more sharp and precise about it all. I didnt even know there was another procedure to be done when delivering a baby besides a C-section, but now i am aware of other things such as an episiotomy. This semester's unit is based on Birth and the question we are trying to get answered through its lessons are whether Americans really need doctors to deliver peoples babies. I am eager to get this question answered. Although i already have a slight idea to what the answer is.

Supplement Sessions on Marx's Critique of Capitalism

Our lessons in class have given us an understanding on the average political mind always thriving for better. Even since the beginning of our lessons, including middle school, we are exposed to events that are labeled as the processes of capitalism. Karl Marx, said to have been the most influential socialist thinker to come out of the 19th century. All historians who emerged after, such as Martin Luther King, are all men with similar creative thinking are known to have Marxist Ideas. The first chapter of his book, Communist Manifesto, based on the accumulation of capitalism, tells his ideas of how he believes society is distinctively splitting into two different classes,

ebay purchase

i decided to purchase an atlanta hawks snap-back starter cap which i won for 15.75. There were only 4 bidders total in history. I made the last bid of 15.25. i think it jumped 50 cents on its own afterwards. No1 seemed to pay much attention to the hat. i won it with ease. although just because i won doesnt meani will be sending the seller a payment. i didnt think spending money for an assignment was neccessary. especially since i would be constantly bidding, what if the hat rose to almost 50 dollars for no crazy reason, and i was the miraculous winner. spending that much for some hat would be ridiculous. My ebay rating is now effected by my lack of payments, but i dont care much for that. i wown easily, but it made me think how maybe the bids are so quiet lately because people were planning to do a last minute counter-offer, possibly with j-bid or some other program out there people use because they dont like the computer stalking i guess. it would really suck to stare at an item for hours or even days, to just be defeated by someone with a last minute stick. i plan on buying sumthing on ebay tho seriously next time, something i really want. a rookie-year jersey of Jason Kidd no.5 on dallas mavericks. Its a hardwood classics jersey, and probably extrememly expensive. but i plan on taking my chances..