Birthing Experience

Birthing Experience

The birth experience I would like to tell about happened twenty-six years ago. It started on a Friday night in April 1987.   I spend the day at my mother’s house while my husband was at work.  That evening I my mother, and two of my sister went to have a family portrait taken. When I returned my husband my two daughters and I went home. We stayed about a twenty minutes from my mother’s house.  

When we got home that night my husband decided he would work on putting up some blinds that he had supposed to have put up the week before. I was getting the girls ready for bed. I had a pain in my side I through it was happening because I had been moving around a lot that day. The pain got worst so I told my husband it was time for me to go to the hospital. He got very excited.

 While he was taking the girls next door to his cousin house to stay until my mother could get there to take them to her house. I was getting my bag that I had packed many weeks before. My husband did the funniest thing he started the car twice. He was running back and for taking the girls. Mean while my pains were getting worst. We got in to the car and my husband took off like he was in a race. I did not tell him just how much pain I was in because I wanted us to  to the hospital safely.

When we got to the hospital the doctor examine me and said they wanted to do an ultra sound because they felt two heads. I were shocked. So in all the pain I was in I had to be transfer to a stretcher to go for and ultra sound. The results of the ultra sounds came back and it was discovery that my baby was breached. The doctor had felt the baby head and bullock. The doctor said because I had two successful vaginal births he did see why I could not delivery this baby. I was in labor for 12 hour. I was in pain all night until 11:00 the next morning. I went into the labor room.  My husband went in with me. He almost fainted but it was comforting to me to have him there. He had to sit down as he watched the birth of our son. Our son was born feet first he weighed 7lbs and 4oz. They had to use forceps to help get him out. It seemed to had been a healthy birth.

A day after being release from the hospital we notice that my baby would cry every time we touched his right hip. We took him back to the hospital and discovery his right hip had been sprung during birth. We were glad it was not broken this occur because he was born breeched.

Today my son is twenty-six year old and cannot do certain movement because of his limit mobility he could not pass physical in school to play sports.

 

                                                     Birthing Experience in India

According to 2010 study by Harvard School of Public Health, 150,000 deaths could be prevented by 2015 if Indian women had access to better family planning and health care during their pregnancies and deliveries (Bhowmick, 2012).  A report done by Save the Children suggests that despite India’s booming economy the country is still one of the most high risk places in the world to give birth. India is ranked the fourth worst country among 80 less develop nations in its survey, with nearly half of all births taking place without a trained health professional.

India has been trying to improve levels of maternal health for years. There are studies that show the maternal mortality rate has dropped by 66% from 1990 to 2010. India‘s maternal mortality rate in 2010 was 200 women per every 100,000 live birth (Berger,2012). There have been many opportunities offer to assist with the improvement of maternal health for years.  India has the highest number of women death during child birth on the planet each year. This could be because of the many women in the rural or poorest areas of India who do received medical help from a qualified medical person. If basic maternity care were given many mothers and babies would survive.

I feel with the wealth India has gain in the past years some of it should be used to help improve their maternity care for many women. Making sure these women received the care they need for safe healthy deliveries.  Many women in India give birth at home with the assistance from untrained individuals. Many mother and babies lives are lost because of the condition in which delivery takes place. Women and children lives could be saved if birth were where modern equipment is used.

 

Reference

Bhoemick, N (201).” Why India Is Still One of the Most Dangerous Places to Give Birth”. TIME Magazine.