My personal birthing experience I would like to share will be the birth of my daughter eight years after my son was born. My older children kept saying they wanted a baby sister, so my husband and I told them to “pray” about it. (Being a smart mouth cause we didn’t want any more children) So they prayed!! I got pregnant- 12 weeks into my first trimester before I knew it. (I cried)
Through my whole pregnancy, my children kept the faith it was going to be a girl. All of my sonograms couldn’t really reveal the sex of the baby, but the doctors thought it could be a girl. My children still claimed that baby girl. Being a mother believing in God- I also prayed it would be a girl silently because I didn’t want my children faith in God shattered. Throughout my entire pregnancy, I suffered lot of Braxton-Hicks feeling like contractions. In my last month of pregnancy, I had four false labors, going in-and-out of the hospital. The doctor finally decided to induce labor because I was coming up on the 4th of July and he was going out of town for the holiday.
I went into the hospital at 8 a.m. the next morning. The doctor began the process of inducing labor. Further into labor, when I could no longer stand the pain, he gave me an epidural for pain relief. At the time for me to give birth, the epidural wore off; therefore, I gave natural birth. What an experience!! It was a girl, born on July 3rd. My husband, children, and family were so excited. Today she is 9 years old and VERY SPOILED.
I am familiar with how the births takes place in the U.S., but there are different rituals and traditions around the world. In the 18th Century France, after a baby is born, he would be washed in red roses, oil and red wine, and in Ancient Malaysia, women gave birth with no pain relief, but had to make do with a massage from their midwife, which is the same as some women here in the U.S. Some women here choose to have a natural birth, without using medications. We have a choice to deliver traditionally or modern. Indonesian and Hindi countries conduct prayer ceremonies for the mom-to-be and in Mexico; it used to be normal practice for women to stay in bed for 40 days after giving birth. In many countries around the world, the placenta is celebrated, as it is considered a symbol of a baby’s relationship with his family and country. In certain countries there are even burial ceremonies for the placenta, and if the women then stepped over it, it was believed that she would become infertile. I read about a lot of different traditions and rituals around the world and how a woman conducts herself in labor, but these are some I chose to share
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