Saturday, March 8, 2014

Childbirth In Your Life and Around the World

             The most recent birthing experience I had was the birth of my first grandson.  My grandson whom I call doodlebug was born on January 12 with the weight of 4lbs 15oz. This was a day my entire life had changed.  Not only, did I experience this wonderful feeling of being a proud grandmother, but that was the day I became part of the glamour-mom committee at my job; among co-worker who was all grandmothers. The morning of January 12th me and my daughter woke up in a hospital room where we spent two there already. The nurse came in and told us that she came in to prep my daughter for the birth of her baby.  I was so happy, because the time had finally come, even though the baby was coming prematurely. All of a sudden my big smile faded away with the thought it is really happening. My stomach started hurt, bubbling and turning with the reality of watching the tears roll down my daughter cheek. The nurse came in to take my daughter to the delivery room but just before they left out; the nurse gave me a funny white scrub that was called a bunny suit to put on to eliminate germs. Five minutes I pass after the nurse and my daughter had left for the delivering room. The nurse came in to get me. The nervous within me started getting worse until I seen my daughter was ok. Less than ten minutes after entering the delivering room I hear a small voice echoing for behind a blue curtain that stood between me/ my daughter upper body  and my daughter stomach on down. I looked at my daughter and she looked at me and at the same time we started laughing with joy. One nurse who came from behind the curtain with a baby boy who entire body seem to be covered with a white powder and water.  After everything was over I was told by the nurse to follow her as she took the baby to the nursery; where there was over baby who was born prior to my grandson birth.
            The place I chosen to talk about their child birth is Australia. In Australia it was Birth & midwifery article reported one in every woman delivery their baby by cesarean section. The mother to be was told it was necessary to deliver their baby C-section. After giving birth by cesarean section most of the women suffer postnatal depression.
            There are expecting women in the United States who has either had a cesarean section or about too. My personal experience I am a mother of three girls and one boy who was all delivered by cesarean section. I was considered high risk since the very first pregnancy. When I reach the 7 month of my pregnancy my baby was in distress, which was a sign of complication. I was rushed in the labor and delivery room where the doctor did an emergency C-section, which prevented me from having future vaginal birth. There is a myth saying a woman can only have 3 cesarean section. To my surprise the doctor I had told me it depends on how well a woman heal after a C-section; she can have many delivery by C-section. 

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