Cutting Out

Some things need to be cut out from my original plan, as the essay has gone in a different direction than anticipated.

Firstly, I won’t be writing about foetal heart monitoring anymore, as I feel I’ve covered the most important and common medical interventions. I also won’t be doing the interviews, as I think the survey is enough independent research to cover personal responses to childbirth.

Instead of this, I’ll be looking more in detail to how perceptions of childbirth link to an increase in fear of childbirth and medicalisation. This is a topic that came up in both my study on epidurals, and also when I studied One Born Every Minute. I’ve established that childbirth is becoming increasingly medicalised; therefore it is important to look at why.

Itinerary

This is my plan so I’ll have my first draft completed before Christmas. The word counts are approximate, but the finished first draft should be 5000 words.

16/11/17: 1000 words on labour inductions and episiotomies. Complete second survey

23/11/17: 1000 words on perceptions of childbirth, looking at the survey and media texts.

30/11/17: 1000 words on epidurals and fetal heart monitoring. Complete one interview

7/12/17: Another 500 words on perceptions of childbirth, focussing on the interview.

16/12/17: 1000 words looking at if perceptions of childbirth are causing more medical intervention

23/12/17: Conclusion, introduction and bibliography