Emergence

Hey Guys, hope everybody had a great weekend!

I didn't have a chance to blog last week because I lost my account information and couldn't get into my blog, but I located it, so problem solved! Hurray! I posted part two of Felix Alexander's homebirth because it is fascinating mostly, but also because the video title was 'Emergence' and I feel like this is a good thought for what I am doing with my project so far. It as recently come to my attention that I should present my research proposal on March 20 (oh no!) and in order to present it I need to have it. I met with my advisor last week and hope to meet with her this week in order to really hammer our the details of the research project/proposal but I really feel like it is starting to emerge at this point. My topic of just doing nursing interventions to promote natural physiologic childbirth seems too vague and daunting because there are so many ways to go once you enter that topic. I have narrowed it down to nurisng roles/interventions in preventing a c-section outcome in childbirth. I really believe that nurses have a unique role during the birth of a child to influence both the family giving birth as well as the doctors presiding over the birth in that they can prevent certain outcomes from occuring. I have read a couple articles so far talking about nurses and thier views and opinions about c-sections and what they feel they can do in order to stop the outcome from occuring. Mostly the nurses talked about buying more time for thier patients to give birth on thier own without unnecessary medical interventions. This made me believe that nurses believe in women's bodies to give birth and activley try and give them the opportunity to do the work of birth on thier own terms. I would like to look more into what nurses can do to prevent this outcome aside from just bartering with doctors for more time. I would also like to explore the ways in which nurses are prepared to deal with natural birth as oppposed to more medically enchanced birth experiances. I think there is so much research out there on this topic and it would be amazing to begin to gain a better understanding on what nurses can do to stop a rising epidemic of c-cection rates.


The rising c-section rate is driving up the cost of birth financially and in today's economy that is certainly a concern of everybody. Not only is it financially costly but the Health People 2020 goals state that a reduced c-section rate is desired and recquired in order for the health of nations to move forward. The U.S. is without a doubt a global leader so it is shameful that such a developed and powerful nation should have one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in comparison with many other industrialized nations. Everybody has a mother, a sister, or a grandmother and these reasons amongst others I mentioned are why we all need to care about this issue. The health of women affects the entire country and the global community in which we live.

Side note, sorry about the spelling.