My Own Personal Birth Experience

What I remember about the event of the birth of my daughter on December 2, 1991: The events leading up to my personal birth experience that I can remember is that my first couple of weeks into my pregnancy I had some complications where I had to stay off my feet for a while and then I remember being sick for about three months and then I remember eating everything in sight and getting bigger and bigger. Then, I remember that my due date was to be on November 26, 1991 but that didn’t happen, so I went about a week past my due date and I remember my doctor wanted me to come to the hospital on December 3, 1991 to induce my labor but that didn’t happen because my baby girl decided she was ready to come into this world before I was to be admitted into the hospital on December 3, 1991 then I remember going for a walk down the street from my house on December 1, 1991 that night and when I went to sleep that night I woke my husband up around 1:00 am that morning on December 2, 1991 and told him it time to go to the hospital.

Then once we got to the hospital I had to wait until I got to 10cm but before I could get to 10cm I started having birth complications when my baby’s heart rate went down and the doctor was trying to get my baby’s heart rate to come back up, so then I had to have an emergency cesarean section and when I woke up they said it was a little complication with the delivery because my baby’s head had got stuck and the doctor had to use a pair of clamps on her head to pull her the rest of the way out but after all that I had a healthy baby girl born on December 2, 1991. I chose this example because I had experienced for myself what a medical invention was like when I had to have a cesarean section almost about 20 years ago. My thoughts regarding birth back then was that I didn’t want any more babies if I had to get big like huge round ball and that if I hadn’t went through with prenatal development then my childbirth would have been a whole lot worse than just my baby’s heart rate dropping to low so prenatal development has a big impact on child development to me.

The region of the world or a country other than the U.S. that I chose was South Island in Southern Vancouver Island of Canada. What I learned about the South Island in Southern Vancouver Island in Canada is that on July 24, 2010 according to the author David  Karp states that “for the fifth year in a row Southern Vancouver Island has earned the dubious distinction of being the caesarean capital of Canada (Karp, p.1).” Also according to keep he states that more than one in three births on the South Island is a C-section, according to a 2010 report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information with its 34 percent caesarean rate, the region is tied with Metro Vancouver’s North Shore for highest in the country well above the national average of 27 percent. Women in Interlake, Man., had the lowest C-section rate in the country with just 17.6 percent of births performed by caesarean (Karp, p.1).”

David Karp.  (2010, July 24). South Island reports highest C-section rate. Times - Colonist, C.7.  Retrieved November 6, 2011, from Canadian Newsstand Complete. (Document ID: 2092061641).