homework 40

(wasnt able to copy and paste the dialouge so i just wrote the blanks) hey, thank you for writing the book Guide to Childbirth. this book was so amazing and had a lot of information in it i never knew about home births. i just thought the ideal home birth that everybody went through, which was people chill in water until the baby pops out. home births are just as safe and easy to do as in a hospital as long as both the mother and baby are safe. in the last third of the book, i realized the book mostly focused on the labor part of the pregancy and the different myths of the pregnancy. along with the whole hormon and changes a woman goes through during those eight months. one myth was the myth of sex. there was a myth of having sex while the woman is pregnant, will be harmful to the baby. but it turns out that its not. "a large collaborative study involving nearly fourty thousand women found no association between lovemaking during pregnancy and poor outcome for mother or baby. in fact human semen is the most concentrated source of prostaglandins, the substance that cervidil...intercourse during the last week of pregnancy helps the woman's body go into labor. " (215) with labor, you sometimes may think that you are going into labor, but then again you may not. "a first time mother checks into the hospital with what she feels is strong labor ward or birth room, her labor has virtually stopped...this situation is is most likely to happen in the early or latent phase of labor." (205) "no one in our care has suffered from eating or drinking during labor. occasionally, a woman who has eaten will throw up, but this is not a problem in women who are consccious. vomiting normally helps dilation of the cervix." (221) maybe for another edition of the book, you could talk more about the history of birthing at home and more history on birthing and give some tips on birthing and what to do during certain situations.