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My Birth Story!

Birth Tag...my mom's last name is Taplin

My birthing story is definitely one for the books! My parents should have know that my dramatic entry into this world was foreshadowing my future life!

Setting: Breckenridge Ridge Hospital
Date:April 15- April 16, ...(the year is a secret lol)
Characters: My mother, father, aunt, nurses and doctor...oh and Jesus :)

Story: My father and mother arrive at the hospital one hour after my mothers' water broke. They walk into the hospital ready to give birth to their beautiful baby girl. The nurses greet them and send them into a waiting room, where my mother gets a chance to change clothes and wait for contractions (how fun!). About 15 hours later, I am refusing to come out. I simply am not ready, and I am chilling in the womb. The doctors advises my mother to walk around the hospital, in hopes that this will get me moving. My mother and father walks out of the room and down the hall. After about 30 minutes later, I change my mind, and am ready to grace the world with my presence, so I slide my head out to greet everyone, the only problem is my mother is in the middle of walking around the hospital and the nurses are holding my head in place so that I don't be slip out in the hallway...surprise!!! 25 minutes later I was delivered and singing (screaming) my lungs out.

That's Me!!! 6 Hours After Birth

This is a true story, and my mother states it often whenever I do something dramatic, and I worn her that she should have known the moment I poked my head out in the hallway that being dramatic is a strong characteristics of mines, I literally was born with it.

My thoughts about birth is simple, it's am AMAZING process and also a GROSS process. I have to be honest. It's amazing because a human being is leaving another human being, and it's the finish product of a nine month process. It's also gross because of the blood, and cords and slimy things that go along with it. I know as a Child Development person I am not suppose to feel this way, but I don't do well with blood or anything else that belongs inside the human body.

This past week I have been reading and learning about prenatal development and birthing rituals from across the globe. One county that I wanted to find more information about is Brazil. I chose Brazil because I have a close friend who is from there, and I enjoy hearing the similarities and differences between the US and Brazil.

When it comes to childbirth and Brazil, over 40% of woman get a cesarean section (C-section) actually this number increases if we take in account Brazilian private hospitals, where almost every birth is a C- section birth, whereas in the US more than one-third of woman get a C-section.

Rio de Janeiro Brazil

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For the most part there really isn't too much of a difference between the US and Brazil when it comes to birthing practices. Both countries rely heavily on giving birth in hospitals. My mother didn't have a C-section, she gave birth to my naturally but did give birth to me in the hospital. One difference was the procedures before the birth. In the US, parents rely on a variety of information from various resources such as the doctor, birthing class, family experiences and etc. But in Brazil the parents only listen to the doctor, and what the doctor says is "golden!"

Reflection:

My thoughts on child birth and child development is this, birth is a new chapter in a humans book. Many countries have different practices on how to birth children to get here, but the main goal is to "get the baby here!" Even though some countries have the same birthing practices, some countries do the birth process different. For example in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, home births are common.

References:

http://www.pregnancy.com.au/birth-choices/homebirth/index.shtml

http://www.parents.com/pregnancy/giving-birth/vaginal/birth-customs-around-the-world/

http://evidencebasedbirth.com/what-is-home-birth/