The Journey of Childbirth Have you ever been stuck on a task at hand? You thought you would never be able to get through it in a million years? I have been there before. Giving birth to my son Jeremy was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I was exhausted, had given up, but, I then succeeded. Never give up on a task at hand that seems to be too tough to handle. To begin with, I had just finished a full day of work where I was on my feet the whole time. My feet were swollen and throbbing, begging me to get off them. I had been having contractions for the past two and a half weeks, but I was pushing through them like a champion. The clock struck midnight and it was time to start the journey to the hospital. Once I was in the hospital I quickly turned into a mess. My body hurt, and I was drenched in sweat. As the tears began to form and run down my face, my makeup became …show more content…
Exhausted and drained of all motivation I once had, I tried to argue with them. I had given up. “I cannot take this anymore.” I sobbed, ruining my makeup even more, when everyone was finally ready for delivery. “I just can’t do it anymore!” I remembered my boyfriend grabbing my hand, my hand felt so small in his at that moment, he looked me in the eyes and said, “Please, it will all be worth it in the end. I know you don’t feel like it right now but have faith in me.” I did. I trusted him with all my heart. I pushed and pushed. I cried from the pain and frustration. I tried giving up numerous times after that but my boyfriend kept repeating, “Don’t give up yet, you are so strong.” I didn’t feel strong at all at the time. I felt like the world was out to get me. However, I kept pushing and pushing and then an hour after pushing with everything I had, my baby boy was born. Six fifty-six pm on September nineteenth of two thousand seventeen is a time that I will never be able to
Everyday, people are faced with choices. Some of life’s choices are simple, such as deciding what to wear to school or choosing a television station to watch. Other choices, however, are much more serious and have life-altering consequences. Being pregnant has many choices, whether or not to keep the baby. There are many choices such as adoption, or abortion. I decided that I would keep my baby because I knew in my heart that I would regret it in the long run if I didn’t. Throughout my pregnancy I suffered from depression, which is the condition of feeling sad or despondent mentally. My depression was mainly due to the fact that I was sixteen, alone, and scared, I was a waitress at a local restaurant, but that job couldn’t pay for all the financial needs it takes to raise a child. I left my baby’s father when all the arguing and physical abuse began. I couldn’t deal with that and I definitely wasn’t going to raise my child through it. Although I knew deep down that this big decision was for the best, it was still difficult and very painful. Just the thought of raising a child alone was scary. My parents were so disappointed in me they really didn’t have much to say, especially my mother. That made my pregnancy worse because I felt as though I had no one to talk to. I had friends to talk to but most of them didn’t understand what I was going through.
I was afraid of making the same mistakes as my parents, family members, and peers. I wanted more than my life to result in teen pregnancy. For my family teen pregnancy meant giving up on your dreams, education and freedom. Although my family was the only people surrounding me I believed in a life free from these barriers. Not having anyone to look up to, I weighed a lot of pressure myself to be different. The reminder of my race and family background played a major role in my insecurities of being successful. The lack of diversity in my community inspired me to be more than the person that everyone is expected me to be. Once I begun dancing a world of multiple opportunities were awarded to me and I knew that dancing was going to make me into
Pregnancy can be an exciting and sometimes frightening experience for many women. It was a snowy Sunday afternoon, and I was not feeling very well. I remember all week long, every morning I felt nauseated. I was craving odd foods, and foods I normally would not eat together. I was on the phone with my best friend explaining to her how I was feeling. She said “It sounds like you are pregnant.” That thought never even crossed my mind until that moment. Sure enough she was right, I was pregnant for the first time. I was excited to have a baby and never realized how many emotions or complications can take place during a pregnancy. Everybody that I knew that had babies, had such wonderful experiences. Unfortunately, this happy moment became such a monumental, emotional and stressful time in my life. During my pregnancy, I went through many emotional experiences from almost losing my child, to the uncertainty of a birth defect and early delivery.
It was August 25, 2006 and I just received the news that I was going to have a baby. At that moment so many thoughts ran through my mind. I was extremely nervous and terr...
It was 11:45pm on a gloomy Monday night, and an excited Cynthia was putting the finishing touches on her sky blue baby shower invitations. Cynthia worked up a sweat from all of this activity, and then suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her lower abdomen. At that moment she immediately woke her husband Matthew with a loud shrill that sounded like “The baby is coming!”. Matthew thought he was still dreaming until he felt a hard thud on the top of his head, and opened his eyes to his wife’s pale face that was as bright as a ghost. Matthew did not know what to think, this was his first child, his first everything and he was nowhere near ready to become a new father. Matthew still had a lot of bottled in information about himself that he has yet
No matter how hard life gets, never give up. People who give up and don’t try to make life the best it can be, live a sad and miserable life and nobody wants that. So always try your hardest in life. Decisions are one of the most difficult tasks you have to do in life.
Introduction: After a steady decline in maternal and perinatal mortality rates, childbirth has become a more significant experience for women. 2 In fact, pregnancy and childbirth are normal physiological processes, and an important and exciting occurrence in the life of many women and their families.3 Overall, for some women, childbirth is a positive and valuable experience; however, for others, it can be considered as a negative experience.3, 4 It is worth noting that culture is one of the factors that can affect the experience of childbearing and motherhood; hence, women from different cultural backgrounds may share a different experience in this regard.5 In Iranian religious and cultural norms, childbearing is considered as a valuable occasion and it is regarded as
I am the third child out of four in my family, I have one older sister, an older brother and then a younger brother. I was born on January 20th 1997 in Clinton, Ontario. This means I was probably conceived the middle of May sometime. My mother did not take pre-natal pills before I was born because I was not really expected, but she was taking vitamins during this time to stay healthy. My mother did see our family physician while she was pregnant with me. She saw the doctor every month for the first and second trimester and then she saw him every other week in the last trimester. In these checkups they would see if I was gaining weight, check blood pressure, blood levels and just to see if everything was healthy. My mom did not have any screening tests done to see if there was anything wrong because it was not very common to get screening done in our
On July fourth a blessing came along, a new baby sister. Before our lives were so quick and simple, now it is filled with cries and dirty diapers. Endless nights of barely getting enough sleep or taking care of her when I needed to be doing homework for school. Don't get me wrong we love her dearly, she just changed our lives completely and I wasn't prepared for it.
Becoming a mother has been the best part of my life. I became a mother at a very young age. I had no idea what to expect and was not in the least prepared for the journey that lie ahead. I have truly embraced motherhood and enjoy all the wonderful things it has taught me. While living through motherhood, I have found that it can teach you the most valuable lessons there are to learn. Being a mother has taught me how to have patience. I have also learned that being a mother takes a lot on mental and physical strength. My children have been the best to teach me how to juggle many tasks at once. They have made me strong. Even through some unexpected turns, I have learned how to get through hard times and really learn what it means to never give up. My children are my biggest blessing, and I hope they will learn valuable lessons through me. The skills I have learned from being a mother have helped me in my college journey.
This was the lesson I learnt from my father, an unceasing learner and a person who would never give up no matter how many and how difficult the obstacles may be. Having understood from him that success is a moving target, the years of my life with my family have inculcated in me a desire to achieve perfection.
Babyhood is the time from when you are born till you 're 18 months old. Like everybody else, I don 't remember anything at all from this time. Whatever I do know is from my parents, siblings and other family members. My mother told me I wanted to appear into this world earlier than I should have. If not for the medications that let me arrive at the proper time, I may not have been here today writing this very sentence. I was born on 19th December, 1999 in Gujarat, India. My parents tell me I was a very quite baby and never troubled them much at all. I would never start crying in the middle of the night, arousing the entire neighborhood. My older brother would often look at me, and state how huge my eyes looked. As a baby, I was very fair, and often was referred to a white egg. Everyone loved to play and touch my cheeks when I was a baby.
Coming from a large family, birth and pregnancy were a very common events in my household, from a young age I evoke being curious about my mother’s pregnancies and as I got older and got a better understanding of the stages of birth and pregnancy I became captivated by my mother’s pregnancies and insisted that I attended as many antenatal appointments that I could. I also became very interested with the midwife that came to our house and provided my mother with all the support she needed and the job she done. I concluded that midwives play an important role throughout pregnancy, the labour, and the postnatal period, and also in a woman and her family’s lives, providing them with all the maintenance and assistance they can get. Eventually I
I was eight years old when I was diagnosed with a pineal brain tumor. On February 13, 2012, I was sent to the hospital to have surgery. My mom, dad, doctors, and surgeons all supported me throughout the whole thing.
By the time the hospital gave my mother a room, it was midnight and I was very sleepy. I was told by my mom to go to the room with her so I did. I was falling asleep on a sofa the hospital had, while my mom was screaming her lungs out. Looking back at this I have no idea why I was in the delivery room. I was later kicked out of it by mom anyways. I wanted the memory of me being in the delivery room for that one hour to stick with me as a reminder of how hard it is to be a mother from the start. Years later, it did stick with me, and it helped me be a better daughter.I realized my mom went through a lot to bring me into this earth and it wasn’t easy for her to do so. From that moment on, even though I was kicked out of the room as soon as I saw her again, I have been as helpful and careful with her as I could ever since. That moment I spend in the delivery room with my mom is actually one of the most special parts of the trip because it made my mom and I closer. I became much closer to her after I realized I owe her to be the best I can as a daughter and to be the best for