Break Homework

Giraffe Birth:
Labor-2 feet emerge
3 hours till birth
Lots of liquids
Umbilical cord breaks
Wild-newborns are up on their feet in 30 minutes

My Reaction:
I thought the giraffe birth was slightly disturbing seeing how there were two legs sticking out of the giraffe’s butt. I was surprised to hear that the labor process was only 3 hours long before the baby giraffe was born. It’s a lot shorter than the labor process of a human giving birth. I was also surprised to learn that a baby giraffe would stand up in the matter of 30 minutes in the wild to get away from predators because it takes a human baby months to be able to stand up on our own. That just goes to show how the food chain is in our society, humans are way up higher than giraffes since we don’t have to be up and running away from predators in 30 minutes.

Dolphin Birth:
Baby tail sticking out
Actual birth looked really smooth and fast
Blood
Lots of murky liquid
Baby dolphin immediately started swimming alongside mother

My Reaction:
I kind of liked/ enjoyed watching the dolphin birth more than I did the giraffe birth. The dolphin made it look so easy; it was just swimming around and around the tank with the baby tail sticking out until the baby dolphin came out. The giraffe birth and the dolphin birth were very similar. A part of the baby was sticking out, the actual birth looked smooth and fast, and there was a lot of liquid. When the dolphin gave birth, it looked like there was just blood at first but then it because a murky orange/ yellow color, it thought it was nasty that the dolphins were swimming in their own blood.

Human Birth:
Many people comforting woman
She was more comfortable in a squat
Lots of breathing
Husband delivered
Birth was slow
Ended up sitting up for birth
Looked painful
Baby came out really easily after its shoulders came out

My Reaction:
I expected the human birth to be grosser than it actually was. The environment in the video was rather soothing. Everyone in the video were talking in low voices trying to direct the birth and trying to comfort he woman. Everything seemed as though it ran smoothly without any complications. The woman kept changing positions to get comfortable and there wasn’t a doctor to tell her she couldn’t do what she wanted to do. It was basically a much more comfortable environment compared to that of a birth played out on the big screen. When the head emerged and a woman held up a mirror for the mother to see, I thought it was quite nasty because if I were giving birth I do NOT want to see what is going on down there; I would just concentrate on getting the baby out without any further distractions. I also thought it was nice that the husband delivered the baby with the guidance of an experienced woman. The mother must have felt she was safe and there was no need to be scared of anything that might happen because there was someone she trusted most delivering her baby.

C-Section:
Lots and lots of blood
Putting pressure at top of stomach made baby pop out
Head just popped out
Doctor looked like he was yanking the baby out by the head

My Reaction:
You were right to say that people who had a weak stomach should not watch this video. It was truly disgusting. There was SOOOO much blood. I didn’t know someone had so much blood in their stomachs. I was surprised when I the baby’s head literately just popped out. In c-sections, I thought that the doctors could just reach in and take the baby out of the stomach I didn’t know they had to put pressure on the stomach so the baby would slide out. I was interested in seeing what happened to the lady after the baby came out. I did not like how the doctors were laughing when the baby came out and were so calm when there is a woman losing a massive amount of blood on the operating table.

Monty Python: Hospital sketch:
Hahaha
All machinery
Care more about the machinery that the patient
Portrayed as fast
It was all rushed
The doctors and nurses all left really fast
Lots of people
Bright lights
Whole room was filled with machinery
Casual conversation about machinery while woman was suppose to be giving birth

My Reaction:
I thought this was really funny. I felt they did a good job portraying how the minds of doctors work. They care a lot more about machinery thinking that the machinery is going to help make the patient more comfortable. Instead the patient looked nervous or scared that there were so many machines in the room and hooked up to her. She looked especially scared when the doctors told her that the beeping noise made sure that the baby was still alive, I would have been high stung if I heard that from my doctor. I would be on the edge waiting for the next beep and if it took too long I would definitely freak out and lose focus on getting the baby out. Everything was really rushed and it related back to what you said about how doctors don’t want to spend all their time delivering a baby therefore they inject many medications into the mother and hook her up to many machines to speed up the process.