Hello Group,
My Personal experience with birth was when
I became a father for the first time and the second time. My spouse gave birth in
a hospital setting for both experiences.
There was a lot of preparation by the medical team. With my son, there was not the option of a natural
birth. We had to settle with a cesarean section. This is an operation that involved cutting the
stomach and delivering my son by this method.
I was very nervous and as I watched, I could not believe what I was
witnessing. The doctors pulled him up
out of the stomach area by the top of his head.
This was an experience that I will never forget. My daughter was also delivered
by cesarean section but hers was much smoother.
Her childbirth took much longer because of complications as doctors were
extra careful not to allow her to stay in the wound much longer than
necessary. My wife was in labor extra-long
as my daughter hesitated to begin the process.
My thoughts on child birth are that it
is a magnificent thing that god created and it requires a lot of teamwork, emotional
stability, planning, the ability to function as a medical team, cooperation, patience,
bravery, and trust from both the parents and the medical team. If all does not go well with the birth
experience, the child may never get a chance to live or live a normal life. The
five characteristics of child development will be affected and will be disastrous.
I chose this example because it is
the only example that I have had with birth up close. I had only heard about birth from other
people but never witnessed it personally.
The region of the world that I chose
is Israel. Israel has a population of a
about 7.908 million in (2012). With a life expectancy of 81.76 years in (2011)
and a population growth rate of 1.8% annual change in 2012. Israel women give birth in many different
ways as compared to my experience. Israeli
women sometimes give birth in some ways that are exactly like the United
States. Their similarities are that they
receive hospital assistance, give birth on back, and natural
waterbirthing. Some of the differences
are that they give birth while squatting, breathing the infant down, homebirth
supported squat, by hypnobirthing, singing, and unassisted birth. As compared to my experience we had a much
easier time as compared to the Israeli’s. Our methods of childbirth are much
more relaxed and more technologically advanced than Israel’s.
