My Personal Birthing Experience And Others Around The World

            I was thirty-five years old when I got married. I got married June 18, 1994; I was thirty six years old when I had my baby girl April 14, 1995. I will never forget when I was giving birth to my child. I went from a size 6 to the size 16 in clothing and from a size 8 1/2 in shoe size to a size 11. I gain so much weight and had so much fluid I was huge. I went through midwife experience and went to the hospital I remember I could not dilate, so Dr. Bonnie had to reduce my labor. My baby would not come so I remember Dr Bonnie looking at her watch and I knew something was wrong. She came to me and held my face in her hands and said “Cedar I got to do an emergency Cesarean” (Bonnie, J A. 1995).

I started to cry, and they rushed me into the operation room, and the room was cold. I was shivering; forbidding and so sad Dr. Bonnie put my hand into hers and she placed her four head on mines, and began to comfort me. They gave me an epidural when they shot me in my lower back. I felt a warmth sensation ran down into my feet, and they told me do not move Cedar! I did not move because I did not know what was going on. I was paralyzed I could not move I heard a cry I could not see anything I heard a voice say “It’s a GIRL!”. I had a baby girl name Dipporah Eu’ Jeana Tyler. Dipporah weighed 6lbs and 13 ounces. That was one of the best moments I ever accomplished. This is my actual birthing experience. I cannot tell anyone about something unless, I have experienced it myself. I have to be the first partaker of the fruit. In order to know how to educate my parents is to experience the situation they are going through.

China-Chinese custom believes that a woman should not have a care and a worry unfettered mind. They believe in every perspective of life to have a positive influence on the unborn child. They believe what affect the mother’s mind affects also the unborn child’s mind in her uterus. She reads useful books she is a peacemaker, and to be calm not to lose her temper. Chinese mothers reading to the unborn child before she sleeps and she does not have intercourse during the pregnancy. She eats no food that has to be mashed or cut because she believes this causes disposition. She eats pastel color food so the child will have a fair complexion. Does not do hard labor, which can lead, to losing the child.

They are very superstitious the Chinese culture does not believe in baby showers for the unborn. The grandmother to the mother is responsible for supplying the gifts. Grandma does not visit until three days after the child arrival. Grandma brings presents like clothing called the Tsue Shen, or hastening for a quick delivery. The mother will drink strong herbal potion to soften up the labor pains.

Chinese women believe in having their babies in an armchair or futon. They also pray to their goddess for helping them to conceive with an offering of sweetmeats and incenses.

Reference:

http://www.babyzone.com/pregnancy/labor-and-delivery/childbirth-traditions-china_70703