Childbirth is scary to most people. Movies depicting childbirth show women screaming in pain, shocking the senses of young and sensitive children. My girls have asked me in the past about this and I have always tried to be as candid with them about my experience giving birth to them while trying to explain it in a non-frightening way.
I went through 4 normal childbirths and I must say each one was different. Some were easy, some were more difficult. C1, although she was my first, was the easiest birth. I recall that she just sort of slipped out. M1 was a different case. He had his umbilical cord around his neck. No wonder I had to be induced as my labor did not progress. And thankfully, my doctor felt the cord and cut it before it choked him. C2 and M2 were painful births which, thankfully, did not last that long.
With the advent of technology, ultrasounds now are not what they were before. New mommies now can actually “see” their babies even before they were born. I did not have that technology available to me then, too bad. I have also wondered what my doctor saw from his perspective since he would put me to sleep as soon as most of the baby was out. Obviously, at my end, I had no idea what it was like on his end. 🙂
Finally, here is an animation from YouTube that is wholesome enough for everyone to watch. It helps that the background music is classical, thanks to J.S. Bach.
Hope my 2 girls see this and realize that a mother’s pain during childbirth is NOTHING compared to the joy afterwards of holding your baby. It never ceases to amaze me that you carry this life inside you for 9 months, feel it move and kick, and afterwards, you are faced with this baby that is 100% dependent on you.
(Baby Joseph Michael Racoma)
