Abstract: This article examines how local pregnant women present their own bodily experience in the context of fertility medicalization in ethnic regions, and attempts to understand how they embark on different embodied practices around reproductive body,and construct their own gender roles around motherhood in practice. Summarizing from 37 sample cases in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, this paper presents three different orientations of embodied practice:"memory oriented", "daily life and family relation oriented" and "medical technology oriented." These three orientations correspond to the childbearing experience of the different age groups of local women. The paper analyzes the multifaceted patterns of women's practice in regard to their reproductive bodies. Specifically, the "memory oriented embodied practice" presents the chronological reproductive memories of women from different ethnic groups, and reflects the cultural shaping of women's reproductive bodies and reveals how older women, who have undergone local modernization and transformation, understand their own experience and practice in the present. The "daily life and family relation oriented embodied practice" shows the continuity of daily life in the medical space. The presentation of bodily experience and embodied practice is, to some extent, the "tools" for women to express themselves and integrate with one another. The "medical technologies oriented embodied practice" is women's compliance to medical technology when the medical situation overlaps with sociocultural expectations. Locally, the medicalized fertility process is not simply a medical process, but a process where multiple factors such as technology, culture, and relations interact with each other. Women try to reconcile these factors during the pregnancy through various practices, and in the process develop their own understanding and constructs of motherhood.

Key words: bodily experience, embodied practice, medicalization of fertility, motherhood