Sex/uality Artifacts

Hello everyone I am Emily Atkinson and I presented to you all my artifact based on the article, “The Pleasures of Childbirth.” This article explained how birth is supposed to be a natural body experience for women and how some people just don’t see it this way. Dr. Dick-Read from the article was a doctor who helped women go through pregnancies using many different forms or pain reliever. His interest in painless child births began when he was working with a woman in labor, offering her the assistance of his chloroform mask. She refused to use this method which left Dr. Dick-Read puzzled. After the woman gave birth she turned to him and said, “It didn’t hurt doctor, was it supposed to?” He later shadowed more births that seemed to be painless as well. He noticed a pattern in all of these births, and it was nothing but pure calmness. Their experiences seemed almost spiritual. He noticed through talking to these women and shadowing their births that the people who experience the most pain with childbirth are the ones who fear it. The ones who have a painless child birth are the ones who accept the fact that the female body goes through changes that are natural. The lady in the video is speaking from a personal view of having her baby boy with a painless birth. She said she mentally and physically prepared for her birth and she was not scared whatsoever. She knew that the feeling of having a baby was the most natural experience she would ever experience as a woman and she took advantage of every second of it.