My childbirth experience was a happy occasion but a
high risk pregnancy. My pregnancy
was high risk before I had my daughter on September
29, 1999 due to the fact of the year
January of 1994 I had a miscarriage of triplets. In
the year of 1994 at the time when I was
going with my ex-boyfriend and I have been with him for over five years and I did not know
that in his family that twins had ran on both sides
of his family with his parents. Three
months after I went for my checkup and found out
that I was having triplets I had a miscarriage.
After the miscarriage me and my ex-boyfriend had
broke up and we grew further apart. The
miscarriage hurt us both because we both was buying
baby materials and we was happy about
me being pregnant. At the time I was working at
child care center but after I had the miscarriage
I had to leave that profession that I love.So I took
a break and work for the company at IBM.
In
the year of 1999 I had dated another guy and meet him at IBM and went with him
for
four years. After
Valentine’s Day I found out that I was pregnant. At first I could not believe it
because I was scare of having another child and
having a miscarriage is really hard. I had to go to
the high risk clinic every week so they could monitor
my pregnancy. On September 29, 1999, I
gave birth to a baby girl who weighs 6 pounds, 3
ounces, 19 inches long. When I had my baby
girl, my parents, my aunt, her dad, was in the room
coaching me as I was having my baby. To
have love and support from my family meant the world
to me. As I had her and when she came
out everybody was happy and crying, my dad was the
first to hold her and my mom was like she
is healthy she has all her fingers, toes, her two
eyes, and a head full of hair. Not only that was a
happy occasion but I knew that this baby would be
surrounded with love.
In
the country of England birth experience is different in the United States. I
have learned
in England is when a mother give birth to a child they have two choices of
give birth in the
hospital portion of the birthing ward where
epidurals were freely dispensed, and the second
option is when you have the baby in the birthing
center in the hospital where natural births
are encourage epidurals are not available. England
is real strict when it comes to personal
hygiene. Visitors are made to cleanse their hands
before entering the birthing ward and noise
is to be kept down to a bare minimum so the new mother
can get their rest and privacy. They
also have three midwives that checks on them every
15 minutes of giving birth to a child. They
also believe in natural childbirth. In the United States I feel like you do not
get a lot of rest of
having a baby in the hospital the nurse in your room
every chance they get. Pregnant women
also have a choice to get the epidural if they want
to. These are the difference of the births in
England and the United States.
Shartarka,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you about the hospital experience we have. The nurse come in as soon as you fall into a good sleep. I would have loved to have the experience of child birth techniques in England. It would be great to have the option. Some mothers used midwifes years ago but today that is not a norm.