Saturday, September 10, 2011

My Birth Experience


  

I want to share with you these two pictures of my son Jeremiah Yahir who was born October 29 2006. He is my only son and the only grandson in the family. He came into my life went I thought I was no having more children. He is now 4 and my daughters are 16 and 13 years old. My 16 year old is a Senior and he just started Pre-K.
 My whole pregnancy was very different from my other two since I developed Gestational Diabetes and after delivery I developed Post Eclampsia. The labor lasted more than 24 hours and it was induced due to the diabetes, but my body reacted as if I was a first time mom.
One factor that affected my labor was the fact that the nurses failed to call my doctor in time since they didn’t believe that I was about to give birth. My son was delivered by a nurse form the emergency room; it was her first time …
The first picture he turned completely blue and unable to cry or breath , I was scared to death  I remember one of the nurses telling another nurse to put him on my chest and as soon as they did he started crying and it was fine …
Since I knew it was my last pregnancy and I didn’t have any pain medications, I decided to breastfeed. Now I have a healthy, lousy, smart, happy, little boy that we love to death. I believe that my decision of not using any drugs during the labor and the fact that I breastfed until he was 2 years old are the main reasons of him being sol healthy today…

I read an article form Bolivia that births take place in home but they prefer to go to the hospital but can’t due to financial strains, distance and other factors.
Others prefer to give birth at home because they feel more secure and don’t trust the doctors. I identified myself with the statement; I believe based on my experience that as in every profession there are authentic professionals devoted to their careers and others lack of that passion.
My doctor didn’t fail it was the nurses and their incompetency, their lack of professionalism that put my son and my life at risk. And this is the same fear that some women in Bolivia feel in regards to hospitals.
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