Outline of Normal Way of Birth vs. Natural Way of Birth

Intro
-Basic of Unit
-What women need to know
-Why women need to know
-Decision making
-Process of the life changing experience
-What to expect in essay

1. Natural Birth
-Why its alienated (because of technology, fears, seen as unsafe and unfamiliar, not common in US, hospitals want all the money, etc.)
-Process and choices (midwives, Douala, home, healthier for baby and mother...)
-Evidence of why its better: Guest Speakers, video/films(business of being born), break homework videos, sphincter readings,Comfort = less pain, stats (Europe and Japan have 70% of midwives, US only has 8%. Very few doctors have observed a natural birth. Comparing it to animals[giraffe, etc). The Sphincter Law.
-What are the benefits: Mother child connections, tends needs of the mother not doctors, more comfortable, no drugs, gives the women the empowering feeling, follows the women body.

2. The negatives of natural birth
-***This will maybe change, depending on if we actually learn about the negatives of it in up coming classes.

3. The Hospital Birth
-What they offer that home cannot (emergencies like Riki Lake in Business of being born) and C-sections.
-Doctor's opinions.
-Process( Epidural, pitocin, etc).
-The benefits
-***This might also change, depending on if we learn about the positives of hospital births in up coming class.

4. Negatives of hospital birth
-"Hospitals are like businesses, get in and get out" They just want your money and out for the next women to fill you bed.
-Not respecting the needs of the women and rather the needs of the doctors(cause of why there are so many C-sections, pitocin, doctors want to get home).
-Cost
-Risks (C-section, malpractice).
-*Takes away the mother-child connections.
-Sphincter article (The 3 P's, sphincter needs to be comfortable and not frightened shut...)
-"Very few doctors have ever observed a natural birth in medical school"-Susan Hodges

5. Personal
-Personal choice, insight, opinions.
-What was more convince and why?
I think that a natural birth is the right way to go because its a women's body and a woman's body does not need steering. It will react on its own and it gives it a more wondrous and joyful experience. Thus not saying that hospitals are evil but that hospitals should at most be a 'just in case' and back- up, in case of any emergencies, issues of why a women cannot have a vaginal birth, etc, etc.............

***Outline and other things may change depending on while I write the essay or what else I will learn in up coming class***