Although this idea may seem hard to grasp as humans this such choice is in one’s hands and one may be given the opportunity to accept this challenge or not. According to Stanislav Grof M, D, “you see the first major challenge in this situation” …. “Straggle through the birth canal, this is like the first challenge in life and you hung in there and you made it through” … “This was a hero’s journey for me, and I made it” (Renner’s, 2016). Alan Fogal supports this idea as he focusses on the transition into parenthood. “Parents, no less than their infants, develop and change with experience” (Fogal, 2015, p.353). This is where the challenging part comes into effect, parenting isn’t an easy task to take on and doesn’t always go as planned. As a parent one may be faced with adversity, but as an infant grows one will grow also and will learn to overcome those such adversities. “After a child is born, parents must learn to cope with a variety of new conditions, including a total alteration of lifestyle, lack of sleep, and the adjustment of the marital relationship to include new family members (Fogel, 2015, p. 353). Director Estela Renner goes deeper into this idea of what it is like to raise an infant. One parent in the film stated that “raising a child is from a level of experience called love from which a mother has been blessed to experience”. She went on to say that no one that can ultimately prepare a mother or father for the raising of a child, it’s just something you learn to do along the
Although this idea may seem hard to grasp as humans this such choice is in one’s hands and one may be given the opportunity to accept this challenge or not. According to Stanislav Grof M, D, “you see the first major challenge in this situation” …. “Straggle through the birth canal, this is like the first challenge in life and you hung in there and you made it through” … “This was a hero’s journey for me, and I made it” (Renner’s, 2016). Alan Fogal supports this idea as he focusses on the transition into parenthood. “Parents, no less than their infants, develop and change with experience” (Fogal, 2015, p.353). This is where the challenging part comes into effect, parenting isn’t an easy task to take on and doesn’t always go as planned. As a parent one may be faced with adversity, but as an infant grows one will grow also and will learn to overcome those such adversities. “After a child is born, parents must learn to cope with a variety of new conditions, including a total alteration of lifestyle, lack of sleep, and the adjustment of the marital relationship to include new family members (Fogel, 2015, p. 353). Director Estela Renner goes deeper into this idea of what it is like to raise an infant. One parent in the film stated that “raising a child is from a level of experience called love from which a mother has been blessed to experience”. She went on to say that no one that can ultimately prepare a mother or father for the raising of a child, it’s just something you learn to do along the