HW 34 - Some Initial Thoughts On Birth

When thinking about birth one of the more key bubbles that pop into my head is this idea of it being very beautiful, its something we all experience (when we are born) although you probably do not remember but some of us have also witnessed birth happen and i guarantee you that the last thing on your mind is beautiful. I feel that this idea of birth being beautiful comes from societies perception on the idea of a babies innocence which i think is a bit misguided, you assume that something so clean and peaceful couldn't come out of a 9 month process where at the end of that 9 month period the women undergo an extremely painful process where her body is put under mass amounts of stress that is not very beautiful.

When thinking about birth i fear how this could also cause death. These two things are complete opposites yet could happen in rapid succession. This idea of having something that we claim is completely innocent, lose the life that it has had for only a short amount of time is almost unbearable. When i think of death during birth i stated before the idea of innocence, which leads me to this question are we all born innocent? Were people like the zodiac killer or the infamous Ted Bundy born innocent? This also comes back to the idea of Nature V.S. Nature. Does being born to a different financial, social, environmental situation at birth have an effect on the type of person you become and the decisions you make.

Questions-

• Why do we consider birth a natural/innocent experience?
• Are we all born innocent?
• What is the experience of giving birth really physically and mentally like?