My Birthing Experience

The birthing experience that i am going to go into detail about was my own personal birthing experience with my son. The first thing I want to talk about was the one thing that I remember is that he did stop breathing in the birth canal and they had to do an emergency pull from the vaginal area with forceps. They could not do an emergency c-section because he was to far in the birth canal. All I remember doing was praying. I also experience to much anesthesia and I could not breath as they were stitching me up all I remember saying was let me sit up I can not breath. They kept telling me I was fine, my vitals were fine, but I did not feel fine. In the end when I started throwing up in the recovering room they realized that the aneathealogist had given me to much anesthesia. So thats my birthing story. I would not trade it for the world though.

Childbirth in Africa:

Maternal death rates are particularly high in Africa because of the lack of skilled midwives, obstructed labor, unsafe abortions, anemia, and malaria. Pregnant women in Africa are especially vulnerable to malaria as their immunity is low and they often do not have the knowledge or the means of prevention.  

Obstructed labor is a significant problem for young women who give birth when their bodies have not yet sufficiently developed. Some countries in Africa have the highest adolescent pregnancy rates in the world – up to 40 % of girls give birth before they are 14. (http://www.amrefusa.org/what-we-do/create-healthy-communities-/women-/)

There birth are similar because they are having children, but they have alot of differences as well such as high cases of malaria, alos HIV and AIDS, but we have high cause of HIV and AIDS here as well in the United States. They do not have the proper care givers their, but the ones they do have are lacking skills and education. The insight that I gain is that we have it made in the United States and we have an advantage over many different countries and regions because we have the properly educated people to provide the proper care for our expecting mothers. So we should take advantage of that when we decide to become pregnant or even when it is an unexpectant pregnacy.

Reference: http://www.amrefusa.org/what-we-do/create-healthy-communities-/women-/)