For my project i got a chance to interview 1 nurse, to get a better understanding of pregnacy and birth. I was unable to have a face to face conversation with the nurse, but I still got a lot of information out of her, from the little time we had to talk. Watching movies, reading books, and listening to guest speakers helped me develope thoughts and feeling about home births vs. hospital births. Before I even got a chance to interview the nurse, I never really thought that home birth was such a horrible thing to some people. I thought that home birth, being such a rare act compared to hospital birth would be acknowledged as something unique to all women.
When interviewing the nurse, I asked her three of my own questions.
1.Do you always feel stressed ot after helping deliver a baby, or question why you chose this profesion?
Her response was: "After 35 years once you've been there for so long, the stress is still as heavy, but you are used to it. It is great to witness a family grow, and it is my job to take care of the patient, and the baby."
My 2nd question was, If you had to choose a home birth or a hospital birth. Which one would you choose/recommend to a woman that is pregnant and why?
Her response was: "Definately a hospital birth. Home births are dangerous, and is criminal. Doing so is risking both the mother's life, and childs life." Talking to her she sounded a lot more dramatic, and sort of angry. At first accepted her feelings, but then wondered why she was so angry, because I never thought someone could hate a way a baby was born. It seemed kind of cruel to say that, but I had to just accept it.
My final question was connected to the second, but I asked her if she has ever helped with a home or hospital birth, and if you have which one was most stressful?
Her respose was:"I will never help or support home births. They should be illegal, and whoever participates in it, or supports it should go to jail. If women want to have home births so badly, they can just come into the hospital, because there are rooms there that look just like a living room, and make you feel like you are in a home and not a hospital."
Those are all the questions I was able to ask her, before she hung up on me. Not in a rude way, but she really needed to get back to work.
Two things that I learned from interviewing her(I learned a lot more, but im only stating two)
1.Everyone has their own opinion, sometimes what they say/feel might be hard to understand.
2.There are rooms in some hospitals to give women the feeling that they are in an actual home, while having their child, and not just under a spotlight with doctors and nurses surrounding you.
Ruben,
ReplyDeleteIt seems like what your overall goal was learning about hospital births. I know this because that was what I tried to do as well. You asked a few questions to a nurse at a hospital which was something that I wanted to do. One aspect that I valued about your posted is you were actually able to come up with some information from a person who worked at a hospital. I tried very hard towards the end of the project to go into a hospital, however it didn't work. This would have been valuable to my project. This matters to me because it is some information that I wanted however if I was you I would have made a push to learn more about how birth is done because anyone from anywhere can give an opinion on anything.
Chris.
A few spelling errors too, usually I don't notice spelling errors but you have some rather obvious ones.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good post and I think that overall I learned a lot about different ways that children are born, just by reading this post. I found it interesting that the nurse was so against home births, I never realized that it made a big difference because a doctor or nurse is still with you. This matters to me because even though I was born in a hospital it is interesting to know how babies can be born.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading and writing about my blog. I am a bit surprised that I got at least some information I needed, to learn more about home/hospital birth. I wasn't expecting to be able to talk to a nurse, but I was lucky enough to be able to. This unit was a good experience, and hope to continue exploring birth.
ReplyDeleteRuben,
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading my blog RUBEN. I did try to get some information about hospital births just like you did and we got about the same amount of information. You should ask some people if you ever have anything to say, the worse they can say is no. Its also easier if you go with friends but people tend to like to talk about themselves because they always know the right answer and they just enjoy letting others know.