Birth Stories

My resoures being two women, one who gave birth to three children, and one who gave birth to two gave me information about their birth such as, the best and worst parts of it, and how it compares/contrasts to the american way of birth.

For the first birth of the first woman, the main problem was that the umbilicle cord was around the child's neck, so they had to perform a cesection. This woman giving her second and third birth, also had to have a cesection. So generally, the worst part of all three births were the problems after the birth from the cesection and the best part was the relief afterwards. The second woman had given birth once in another country and once in America. For the first birth it was different from the second birth in America because she was not put to sleep the first time so she felt all the pain during the birth, but afterwards she also had relief and she was doing fine afterwards, after she gave birth she was able to hold her baby and take care of them while they would lay next to her in the same room while, in America she was put to sleep so she had pain from the stitches after the birth. Once the baby was born, they were put in a certain place and would come in and out of the room for the mother to take care of the child. This woman's experience contrasted with the american way of birth in that there was no rushing like we see in the movies.