1. How did pregnancy affect you physically, emotionally, or in other ways?
2. What did you do, while pregnant, to prepare for giving birth?
3. What actions and attitudes by specific other people made your pregnancy and birth more joyous? More challenging?
4. What thoughts and feelings influenced your choice to make a baby?
5. What feelings come back to you when you remember labor and giving birth
Aunt Nessa:
1.I was sick in the first three months. I was happy for first child because I was 26 and wanted a baby. My second child I was like oh shit, I was a little scared because I was not ready for this one or had planeed it.
2.While I was pregnant I read alot of books, did alot of walking, I also took classes on things, and saw the doctors alot to make sure everything is ok
3.Their daddy was happy and everyone was happy for me good
4.The reason why I had my baby is because I was ready to be a mother, and because O was making good money to take care of me and my baby
5.While I was pregnant I had beautiful skin and I did go through what some women say they go through butr the labor part was the worst part of my life. I would never wish that on anyone I know or hate.
My Sister:
My sister was 19 when she found out she was pregnant with my niece. She tried top hide it from my mom as lomg as she could until she started to show. My mom was sad that she was having a baby so young but she did help my sister 100 percent. And she as happy that she got a granddaughter. But sometimes my sister wishes she would have waited to have my niece so that she could of had a life and go out with her friends. and the crazy part is that all her close friends had babies the same year she had my niece.
My Mom:
My mom had me and my sieter. My sister was more of a surprise to my mom she was 16 and was not ready nor did she know she was pregnant. She went 4 months with out knowing that she was having a baby and by the time she found out she had to have her. And on top of that my sister cane out after 6 months and sooo small. And everyone was disappionted in my mom and since my mom was 16 she was unfit to take care of a child so my grandmother did. So my mom knew that her next child was going to be when she was ready to take care of a child in all the ways she could.
Bryanna,
ReplyDeleteI am apart of your new comment on blogs group! Isn't that great news?! Anyways, i obviously read your blog and first off really like your questions. I especially got hooked on the third question which basically questioned how did surrondings people's actions affect those who were going through pregnancy. This, including the answers in which your interviewees gave show that pregnancy and birth very much welcomes a support system, as it is a big deal and change in our lifetime. Overall great job!
Best: You showed a different aspect of pregnancy and how it effects people in you interview.
ReplyDeleteInterest: why is teen pregnancy continued to be glorified
Bryanna,
ReplyDeleteI like the fact that you interviewed several of the women in your family. The take-away for me is that your mother and your sister both wished they would have waited to have children until they were older;that might be true, yet the fact remains that biologically woman in our society are waiting longer than there bodies are willing to wait-what do you think is the flip side for "waiting?" When do you personally think is the ideal time to have children? what are the implications for woman and having children in general? How does childbirth and child rearing impact a woman both in a positive way and in a negative way?
I like the common thread you had by approaching woman in your own family;however, I am left wondering about your own thoughts on the subject? I hope to hear more of your perspective as the unit continues to evolve.
Since I know your family I can totally understand your questions and the answers you got. I like that you interviewed the women you know best I think it makes your blog personal and creative, I also like that you put what they had said into your own words so its all your interpretation. But remember to spell check, and don't forget to tell us about what you think, interested to know! Good Job.
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