Personal Birthing Experiences

I have never experience childbirth because I do not have any children. The only thing that I know about childbirth is what I have seen on TV or what I have read in a book. After what I saw I don’t think I want to be there in person. Childbirth is sometimes called labor is the period of birth of one or more infants from a women uterus. I believe that childbirth can be very hard and painful. My thoughts regarding childbirth are that it should be planned and wanted. By during so women should take all the necessary precaution in order to have a healthy baby.

Kenya is located in Africa, on the East, just below Somalia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean. Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, located in the south-central part of the country. When children’s are born in Kenya it is more of a traditional ritual. The women are given a special food to help give them strength, in order to have their babies. The husband lives in a separate house and cannot come near the wife until the child is big enough to take a bowl of porridge to the husband. This will not allow the couple to have another child until the baby is big enough. Before the baby is born the mother is given a special herbs, these herbs are meant to help the woman give birth in a shorter time frame. The women mother-in-law will move in to help for about two weeks. The mother is not supposed to work at all. In Kenya, only 46% of deliveries in the country are done by skilled doctors and nurses. Poor women are seven time more likely to give birth at home than the rich, with little or no post-natal care. Kenya has one of the highest deaths of women during childbirth, 21 women daily from childbirth complications. More than 4 millions babies are born in the United States each year. The childbirth in the United States are s little different than childbirth in Kenya. In both places the mothers are given medication to help ease their pain. The current death rate in the United States is 7 per 1000. In the United States most births occur in hospital, with doctors attending.

I have gained a great deal of knowledge about the birthing of babies in the Unites States and in Kenya. I have told by many mothers that giving birth is the most precious moment a mother can have. I have learned how giving birth in one part of the world can be very different in another part of the world.