AWOB - American Way of Birth Response

birth /bɜrθ/ [burth] –noun 1. an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth. 2. the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring; childbirth. (www.dictionary.com)

Although giving birth to a baby is stressing and painful, depending on the hours the mother is in labor and the situation the mother is involved in (planned pregnancy or not), I think birth has to be the most significant moment of a mother's life.

The process of making and giving birth to a baby is most common to womens American way of living. It is human to reproduce and make babies for the next generation, but there are some strings attatched to how the mother may react to other situations while giving birth. There is a chance of a change in the mother after giving birth which is a kind of form of alientation to ones self.

My perception of birth was very similar to those in class who thought that right after the water broke, the mother immediately rushes to the hospital. In reality, the mother who is in labor for the first time, takes her time getting to the hospital, like my mom who waited to be picked up by my God-Father from Manhattan, to be driven all the way to Flushing Queens, NY.

The different stories of mom's around the world giving birth is rather interesting and different than it is like every other story. I noticed that the different stories in class involved something so major that made the story significantly different from all the others. Whether it was about getting to the hospital, the process of which it took for the baby to come out, the different methods used to make labor easier (Epidural, Esisiotomy, Lithotomy).