Week 2 Blog

For my topic this week I chose to talk about approaches to childbirth. 

  

I would like to learn more about multicultural childbirth experiences. I was very surprised and piqued my curiosity that although Holland and Sweden have the lowest immortality rates in the world and they also have the highest rate of home deliveries. My thought was that if emergency equipment used at hospitals were not available, I expected to see the opposite when it comes in immortality rates in those countries from the research I read. I believe the reason they have such low immortality rates is due to the fact that those countries have free government sponsored healthcare for all women, they are given the care needed prior to even becoming pregnant.  

      If had unlimited funds available to do further research, I would investigate the relationship between free healthcare for all woman prior to pregnancy and more fund more research for home deliveries in regards to education for women so they can make choices about different approaches to childbirth.  

      If I had more time to read up on different cultures childbirth approaches, I would be very interested in learning more about other countries beliefs and taboos about having men present when the baby is born. I watched the UNICEF video and was really shocked that the woman actually got up and ran out when they were shown movies involving the birth process and men were present for the birth of their own child. Makes me ask the question, why would it be a taboo for the father that helped create a child to not be present when the baby comes into the world.