Childbirth in My Life
I remember the
day perfectly November 17, 2010 when my wife told me that our child was ready
to be born. I had to drive two hours to
San Diego since she was having the baby there.
She was already there so driving with my other three step-girls felt as
if it was a year. We were all nervous
and wanting to be there for her and the baby.
My wife had been at the hospital since 8am and when we arrived at 12pm
she was in major pain. It took the
doctors until 9pm to say that the baby was so big that he would not be able to
be born naturally and that my wife would have to have a c-section. I was told that I could be there for
her. I did want to be there for her, but
I felt so nervous that I felt my feet so heavy and my heart was pounding a
million seconds. As we were taken to the
labor room I held her hand and told her everything would be fine. They put a
sheet over and we could not see anything, and I am kind of glad that I didn’t see
the c-section because several times I felt as if I was going to passed out, but
I was being a tough daddy. My son was born
weighing 11lbs he was a big chunk of meat and I am glad that my wife did not
have him normally. I fell in love the
moment I saw him, and I must thank my wife for being such a trooper in having
to bear my child by c-section. I have
many respects for women and for my wife giving birth is out of this world and I
believe that no man could do it.
Childbirth Around the World
I went on to research the birth of children
in Africa. I learned that the leading
cause of death in woman has to do with the complication of pregnancies. It was said that one in 22 women die giving
childbirth. I was very shock by the
ratio. The reason for many deaths in woman
is because they lack the proper health care, so they have not choice but to give
birth in their own home. I could not
find anything about women having c-section in Africa, so I suspect that many of
these women that die is because they cannot have a normal delivery and since
they are home trying to deliver they die.
I could only imaging the amount of joy and nervousness that you had making a two hours driver for your childs delivery. I also wonder about cesareans that occur in Africa, its a great possibility that they have a child birth death. Your birthing story was delightful to read.
ReplyDeleteI know you was too happy. My husband was the same way when I gave birth to our first child. I had her naturally. I went in the night before and had her 7 am on August 23, 2012. Glad men can see all the pain we go through when having a baby.
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