A Chid is Born Important Questions Answers: Class 12

Q) How does a traditional society look into pregnancy and child birth?

According to the writer, childbirth is taken as a boon of God in the eastern society. Pregnancy and child birth are accepted culturally and collectively. So, mothers do not have psychic burden. Pre-natal and post-natal period is celebrated as ritual. It is also believed that married women can’t be members of a family until they give birth to a baby. Women become pregnant not only by their wish and desire but by the pressure of their family. When they are pregnant, they are secured and loved by all. They feel mentally free. Their relatives and family members are there to help them. After giving birth to a child, all the family members become happy, share their joy, organize various feasts and perform their rituals. They are cared, loved and supported by their husbands, family members and relatives. They are provided with good food and care. So, they feel secured and free from mental burden. But the mortality rate of mothers and infants are high in their society. Women who have babies are given high respect and attention because they make their family members happy by presenting babies. They are allowed to go to their mothers’ houses for some months. Mothers and children are highly respected by many people with new clothes and gifts. Children are loved and looked after by all family members. Birth ceremony is celebrated by feasting and merry making. Children are given names and mothers are called after the name of the children. Giving birth to babies and breast feeding is success for married women.

Q) What kind of treatment does a woman in Bangladesh receive during her pregnancy and after the child birth?

In Bangladesh, a pregnant woman is loved, cared and supported by her husband, all family members and relatives. She is always free from mental burden. Everyone admires her pregnancy and gives food whatever she likes and sympathy. After the birth of a child, she goes to her mother’s house for some months. She is given new clothes and hygienic food. Her pregnancy and child bearing is the matter of celebration. The new born baby is looked after by all family members. Children under the age of five or six are taken to pond for bath. They are not given artificial playthings for playing. In the afternoon, they are told fairly tales by their grandparents and other family members. At night, they always sleep with their mothers.

Q) What differences does the writer show between a traditional and a modern society in the matter of child bearing?

Here in this context, a traditional society refers to the eastern society and a modern society refers to the western society. According to the writer, there are various differences in the matter of child bearing. Child bearing is the matter of great celebration and joy in a traditional society. A pregnant woman is cared, loved and supported by all family members. She is respected by all and given complete attention. In her pregnancy period, she does not any physic burden. But most of pregnant women have mental pressure because her all family members expect the birth of a son from her. The child bearing is not only the wish of a mother but also the pressure and desire of her family members. In her pregnancy, she is free to go to her mother’s house for sharing her happiness and even for giving birth to her baby. The mortality rate of mothers and infants is high in this society because of poor health service and equipment in hospitals. But in a modern society, child bearing is taken a trivial matter. A pregnant woman has to do her works herself. She has to do pre-natal and post-natal preparations herself. So, she has physic burden in her pregnancy. Child bearing is only the wish of spouses in this society. This society ignores cultures, values, celebration, etc. Hospitals with expensive modern machines are the birth places of babies. The mortality rate of mothers and infants is less due to modern technology.