- The mighty epidural- used to speed up the process. Ultimately gets in the way of allowing our bodies to go through with our natural responses to birth.
- C-sections- a routines process to get the baby out of the mother without taking up to much time.
Cassidy addresses the various options a women is accessible to when giving birth. Her book Birth gives the readers insight explaining why our current methods are the way they are. She addresses these issues with tragic, gruesome stories, representing the past methods as tortures and the current one only as a little better. One chapter is dedicated to illustrating the history of the Cesarean section. A method that was not always common but is widely known and practiced now. Five hundred years ago, in a swiss town a women was in labor for days. in pain and no response to their request for help the women's husband performed the first recorded C-section. He retrieved the baby himself, resulting in a healthy mother and son. An emgencergy, nesscessary procedure transformed into a likely and considerably normal one. this was one of the topic that was heavily discussed within the next 100 pages. I think this is due to the fact that C-sections are a process that have made the biggest jump. I dont agree with using the word progression in this case, because the process does not seem to have become much better. Although C-sections that made it far, meaning the process has changed allot, it is one that has changed in a direction different than positive.
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"With Madonna, Elizabeth Hurley, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kate Hudson all having cesareans, the procedure seemed suddenly trendy among the skinner celebrity set." (124)
"...as rigid benchmarks for monitoring labor's progress, without considering how many women fall on ether side of his asymmetrical bell curve... there was no standard for normal."(158)
What is state of the art one year is out-molded and unfathomable the next, leaving us to laugh at the hocus pocus, marvel at how mothers are thrilled by some new "easy' way, or recoil in horror at the damage done." (161)
"Did nature intend for men to be present at birth? Does a fathers own worries add to the anxiety in the room? Does he offer a massage thats more annoying than comforting? Does he interrupt the women's concentration? Does he inhibit her? Who let the mean in to begin with?" (197)
4. Starting with Victoria Beckham started the catch phrase "to posh to push". A phrases addressing without the book Birth and also one addresses in various magazine articles. It became a trend in 1999 when this celebrity via c-section. Other big named celebrities began to follow her example, causing so much attention. So while having a baby in hollywood has become a trend, having a baby via c-section is the way to go. celebrities like Christina Aguilera consider c-sections to avoid
"any surprises." she continues her thoughts in a interviews by saying, " Honestly, I didn't want any [vaginal] tearing. I had heard horror stories of women going in and having to have an emergency C-section." and once the decision of the birthing process was made. This almost mom faced a new challenge in her birthing process, " The hardest part was deciding on his birthday." Just in case, anything goes wrong there are of course ways to repair those battle wounds. Because alas there is the option of cosmetic surgery! the vaginal rejuvenation; becoming more and more popular over the years. This fantastic methods allows those to simply "freshen up her lady bits."
Hepp, Kyle . "Celebrity mothers are into c-sections."sytlelist Feb 16th 2008: n. pag. Web. 23 Mar 2011.
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