This week the article "Caring for Infibulated Women Giving Birth in Norway" really stood out to me in our textbook Cultural Anthropology. This topic brings up stuff we learned in a previous chapter about the infibulation of women in other societies. In this case, we are discussing how birth in Norway is supposed to be considered natural and something that comes relatively easy for the typical woman. They are expected to have little to no medicine or incisions made on their bodies during childbirth. For infibulated Somali women, having a child can come with complications and put their body through more pain and stress. It shocked me that the midwives didn't ask if the women wished to receive episiotomies. I know just from past knowledge that
