To Arden- Arden i felt that this post was the best one yet. i could tell you put a lot of thought into it (and not just because it is so long). i felt your ideas were very developed and showed a deeper thought process that not a lot of people are capable of doing. My favorite line was "Turns out that those women who didn't know they were pregnant until labor described her perfectly. The signs were mostly all the same as she described to me, My periods were already irregular, I just didn't think about it much.There were not any out of the ordinary food cravings seen in other pregnancies. Then of course there is the baby's growth, normally noticeable. With no drastic changes M justified her weight gain to stress, lack of sleep." I felt like this line was particularly interesting because of the fact that it involves the both physical and mental change of women during pregnancy,but not only that you also explore women who are unaware they are pregnant and what the physical and mental change is like for them.
To Matt- Matt i felt your blog was very thoughtful yet still focused mainly on the interviews themselves. By putting your personal thoughts after rewriting the interviews you allowed me to draw my own ideas and conclusions without them being influenced by yours. my favorite part was when you said that "All of these women oddly experienced a newfound freedom in relation to feelings , their bodies, and relationships. Many felt they could move forward in life in a new direction . It seems these feelings with other experiences in birth are just components of a much larger process of birth. While generally considered powerful and profound, the particular meaning and significance of these feelings seems to be overtime fading." i felt that this showed the depth of your analysis and thinking. i also feel like you got a good piece of insight into the process of birth and the effects it can have on the mother's personal life, such as their relationships and freedom.
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From Mr.T (Mentor)- I found this to be your most interesting post of the ones I have read so far. Particularly, I thought your comment on the tenuous grasp of life at the moment of birth was very interesting.
The most striking part of the post - Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
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d the one I think you could expand - is the investigation of the female and male perspectives on the process of becoming a parent. There is an interesting dichotomy in the way your mother and father experienced your birth. It was smart of you to ask them the same questions. I wonder if their sentiments are more global. Do mothers and fathers feel this way in general? This would be an area of further study. Does the lack of the physical connection, as you point out, influence the father-to-be's perspective on the process of becoming a father? These are questions worthy of further study.
Keep up the good thoughts.
From Steven (protege)- I know that this is very general, and a broad idea, but my favorite idea in your writing was the "emotional connection". I have never thought about how there could be an emotion connection between something that everyone consider "alive" and something that only some people consider "Alive" (given that sometimes alive means breathing, and being held, and others where alive means being a fetus). This idea was very significant to me and specifically caught my attention, which is why it has inspired me to think deeper about it.
This topic is a little bit challenging for me to fully comprehend as i believe that you have to experience it to believe it. To really know the emotional relationship and connection, i think it is one of those subjects that cannot be explained. This has led to deeper thinking and the trying to understand the topic more thoroughly even though i percieve it to be impossible for me to fully comprehend at my age.
Overall, i think this was a great topic, and a great explanation of it, and it will defenitly leave me thinking.
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