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
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...
So, I told my doctor I wanted to be induced. After all, my due date was only two weeks away and only five percent of women give birth on the day determined by their doctors. When I was finally there, I looked at the outside, the hospital was set in a suburban – like area, and when I went inside the building, I was in a welcoming ultramodern facility. I went straight to the labor and delivery section where they said my doctor had gone out of town; nobody believed that I was supposed to be induced that day. It took them like 15 minutes to confirm what I had told them, to finally decide to take me to a room to connect all kinds of tubes to my body. I went into the room; it looked very comfortable, but it was freezing. I lay on the typical hospital bed, one of those that make sleeping and resting easier.
As a child growing up, there were times I would feel my mother would be out to just make
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
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.
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.
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
High school years are supposed to be a time for fun and exciting events in every adolescent's life. There are parties, ball games, and local after school hangout joints where we can meet. All combined to making high school the most memorable years of any teenage girl?s life. However, my experience in high school took an uneventful turn in tenth grade. My carefree ways had to end and a new wave of responsibility was presented to me. I found out that I was two months pregnant. My thoughts tugged at my conscience, how was I to tell the father of my unborn child? Would my mother support my decision? I had to forget about my partying ways and hanging with my friends. My freedom days of coming and going were about to be over and I quickly became the girl about whom everyone was talking.
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.
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.
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
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.
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