Child Birth In Your Life and Around the World

I do not have a personal birthing experience to share.  I don’t have any children of my own and I never took part in a birthing experience of those who were pregnant.  The only birthing experience I can share is my own personal birth.  In order to share that story with others I had to speak with my mother to find out about her experience of child birth.  My mother had an ultra sound appointment and they check out the baby and the progress the baby was making.  My mother said the doctor focused on a certain spot that was low and began to become uncomfortable.  Went home for dinner and continued to feel uncomfortable.  After a while she started feeling and keeping track of her contractions.  Around 11 PM she called her doctor and went to the hospital.  My dad stayed out of the room and watched and waited in the waiting room until I was born.  I was born at 2:46 AM and delivery was very quick.  I feel that having a healthy and supportive pregnancy will help a child regarding their child development.  With the help and support from nurses, doctors, family members, it helps the mother, father, and child bond in a way full of love that is important for the child and how their child will develop once they are born.

I choose to speak about the Japanese culture of child birth around the world.  I learned that many Japanese women find out they are pregnant is by a doctor, at a women’s clinic.  Once the women finds out that she is pregnant she finds a mid-wife and they help support the women to prepare for delivery at the hospital.  The husbands are encouraged to stay in the waiting rooms or at home until the wives come back home with their new born.  The doctors encourage the women to have a low calorie diet and drink lots of tea.  The nurses/mid-wives follow the doctors’ orders and follow the hospital/birthing clinic policies to the book.  Once the baby is born the baby stays in the nursery for 3 days to give the mother time to recover on giving birth to their child.  The similarities are that a doctor can tell if a woman will be having a baby or not, though most women in the American culture learn through a pregnancy test from a store.  Many doctors encourage women to gain some weight and have a healthy diet for them and the unborn baby, but in the Japanese culture it is frowned upon to gain weight.  In the American culture that new born babies are able to stay in the room with the mother or can be sent to the nursery, it is all about the mother’s choice of wanting to bond with their child and breastfeed right away.  I find that each culture is very unique and their beliefs, values, and history of their culture play a large importance to prenatal care and development.

References:

Andy Gray. 2008. Giving Birth, Having a Baby in Japan.  Retrieved on May 10, 2014.  http://www.globalcompassion.com/japan-birth.htm