Women's Decision-Making And Factors Affecting Their Choice Of ...

itiust put me off of birth, fuLL stop. Ana jet this time, I thought weLL, at home,
uou Penow, °Laze again. uou're not sang to have that pressure becatASe tined are
ot going to sau to uou, uow kvtow hurru up anol push this thins out because
I've Sot two more Ladies in the next room waiting to give birth, avol can't spend
aLL h,tu ti.vue with uou. .50, I thlz ueah, ct home because feel- uou'LL be a Lot
frikore reLeved, joiCre Less Li.lzeLu for thi,vIgs to go wrong, I mean that's not
sauing theu won't (aoLape).
At casual reading of the extract it appears the woman is simply trying to
justify her decision to have a home birth by saying home is relaxed and things are
less likely to go wrong and even laughing about it. The passage raises a lot of
issues, and the analysis attempted first to get the overall meaning and then to try
and isolate factors, which appear to have influenced her decision to have a home
birth.
Firstly, Gaolape starts the passage by making it clear that she has no
previous personal knowledge of home birth, "I think..". She then acknowledges
that things may not go according to how she thinks they will progress "...don't
quote me on this until after I have had the baby". She talks about her previous
experiences of hospital deliveries, she has had three children in hospital. In the
other two births, she describes scenes of intimidation and blackmail by those
looking after her, "the baby is in distress, i f you don't hurry up and push you going
to have to have forceps! And they show you what they [forceps] are, and you're
thinking, Oh, my God! You know and you are getting yourself so, I got myself so
worked up, you know because, you know, I've seen these things, and I thought, oh
no, they're, not going near me".
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