One of the most famous festivals in Colombia is Barranquilla’s Carnival which is a festivity like the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. These festivities are usually celebrated on the month of February or March depending on the year and they last for 5 days. It is said that all the kids born in November or December were conceived during Barranquilla’s Carnival. When I was pregnant for the first time in my life, my baby was born in the month of December. Getting pregnant was a real journey for me because it was something my husband and I were not expecting. When I got pregnant, was not the question but when my last Premenstrual syndrome was at the time. All these information was very important because this is how doctors calculate when the babies are …show more content…
I believe everything started right after the 2007 carnivals where the city was hit with a flu virus that almost everybody in the city contracted including my husband and me. The symptoms that I had were the same as everybody else, such as fever, headaches, red nose, body ache and a lot of vomiting. As the months passed by, I was not getting any better so I decided to go to the doctor. After many tests were taken by the doctor the results came in with a surprising outcome. The reason that I was indisposed all that time was not the flu, but I was pregnant. Of course, this came as a surprise to me and my husband since we didn´t imagine this in a million years. Is not that we didn´t want to get pregnant, but we just wanted to wait a couple of more years for a better financial …show more content…
My pregnancy was very unorthodox from the very beginning. I believe that one of the main reasons I didn’t know I was pregnant was because my Premenstrual Syndrome is very irregular. I also didn’t know the exact day of my last PMS so it was really difficult for the doctor to give me an approximation date for my baby’s birth. My pregnancy was considered high risk because of the inaccuracy of the information and for this reasons I had to do a lot of constant checkup on the baby. All these produced a stress in my body and everything I was feeling my baby was feeling it too. The doctor recommended me one month in bed and I took advantage of that time to get to know that little person inside me. It is amazing how much a baby can understand when he or she is in the mother’s womb. The big question was when my baby was going to be due. The doctor told me that the only one who knew that answer was me. I was very afraid because I didn’t know how I was supposed to know that. My worries were that if I took a bad decision would harm my baby, but the day finally arrived. On December 29th, 2007, my carnival baby was born at 7:00 a.m. bringing a lot of happiness and love to our family. We named her Gabriella like our angel Gabriel. That was one of the perfect days I ever had. Three months ago we were waiting for someone we were not expecting and she has been
In doing this project the literature drawn from is largely non-scholarly for the reason that I am prevailing upon the reader to think outside the box about birth. Most of the “scholarly” research that is available was written by doctors or nurses/nurse midwives who were trained in the medical model of birth. Since part of my premise is that the high rate of Cesarean sections is caused in part by viewing birth as a medical and therefore pathological event, and in part for its emergence as a capitalistic industry, it was then necessary to find literature written by people who have expertise in birthing though not from the traditional obstetrical/medical school approach.
The event of childbirth is one that changes a person’s life. Women dream all their lives of holding their newborn child and raising them to be fine young men and women. Couples try, sometimes through many long and time-consuming methods, to conceive a child. And when that little bundle of life is born, nothing in the world is as wonderful.
This time in life may also be very stressful due to the trend for medicalization of birth. The medicalization of birth is the trend we see in society today. There has been an increase in the use of medical technology. The cesarean section is the most common surgery done in the United States, even higher than a hysterectomy and tonsillectomy. Over one forth of birhs in the United States were cesarean sections. There are major complications that could occur with the increase use of this surgery. For example, the mortality rate is four to ten times higher than a vaginal birth. There is also an increase use other artificial medical interventions such as induction of labor and epidurals. It is hard to explain why women are choosing to deviate from traditional births, but it is a growing societal trend.
The birth experience for this couple was an exciting and memorable event, just as Jerry J. Bigner (2002) stated that this "is a particularly memorable occasion for couples who are experiencing it for the first time," like in this case (p. 189). The couple said that the birth of their baby girl was the happiest day in their entire life. The type of delivery that they had chosen before the birth was the psychoprophylactic method or also known as the natural childbirth. Since their daughter was born at 7 months and was premature, it was easy for the couple to stick with this type of delivery. The couple said that the mother's water broke at 6:35am, they got to the hospital at around 7:00am, and the baby was born at 7:41am. The...
“Papi pulled me to my feet by my ear. If you throw up— I won 't, I cried, tears in my eyes, more out of reflex than pain” (307). As this scenario presents violence, it displays innocent Yunior’s response towards his abusive father as he pulls Yunior’s ears. In the short story Fiesta 1980, Junot Diaz depicts the life of young Yunior as he struggles with his Dominican family issues. Yunior was picked on the most in the family, especially from his dad. As Poor Yunior was the victim of his dad’s affair with a Puerto Rican woman, it affected him psychologically. Yunior suffers from the fact his beloved mother is being cheated on; therefore, he vomits as he rides his dad’s van, as his first ride in the van is linked to his first meeting with
Waiting on those two little pink lines was like waiting on honey to be pour on a cold January morning. I received a text that changed my life forever; my best friend since middle school just told me she might be pregnant! My first thought was how she could be so stupid then panic set in what in the world was she going to do, however the main thought was she was not the mother type. My friend was like a tombstone, she could be cold, ruff, and hardheaded. She never really took the best care of herself either if it require physical, mental, emotional work then it was not for her. The weeks seemed to blur together waiting for her doctor’s appointment to confirm my worst fear. The doctor walked in with a big smile on his face he said “ congratulations you’re going to be a mom” My friend's face fell we walked out of the doctor’s office in a daze; I had to be the one to ask the hard question of what in the world are you going to do? My friend stared at me and gave an answer I least expected she said, “I’m going to have this baby despite all odds. The night after the doctor's appointment she called to tell me she and her boyfriend broke up and she was going to need me more now than ever. I ask why they break up. She told me that he told her that he was not ready to give up his life for some little baby that would require it to be put first, and he wasn’t about to give up the lime l...
This is the beginning of a journey that welcomes new life into the world. It all started on a Thursday, December 18th 2014. Elias was ready to see the world and Nakona was ready to give birth and see him. Nakona started laboring at 6:00 a.m. She busted into my room and woke me up asking me to take care of Lillian, their two old daughter, until she was picked up. Brandon, her husband, just finished a meeting when Nakona called to tell him she was in labor. Brandon came home and took care of Nakona until the midwife arrived. I couldn’t believe that this was really happening and that I would see Elias that day.
Pregnancy can be an exciting and sometimes frightening experience for many women. It was a snowy Sunday afternoon, and I was not feeling very well. I remember all week long, every morning I felt nauseated. I was craving odd foods, and foods I normally would not eat together. I was on the phone with my best friend explaining to her how I was feeling. She said “It sounds like you are pregnant.” That thought never even crossed my mind until that moment. Sure enough she was right, I was pregnant for the first time. I was excited to have a baby and never realized how many emotions or complications can take place during a pregnancy. Everybody that I knew that had babies, had such wonderful experiences. Unfortunately, this happy moment became such a monumental, emotional and stressful time in my life. During my pregnancy, I went through many emotional experiences from almost losing my child, to the uncertainty of a birth defect and early delivery.
It was August 25, 2006 and I just received the news that I was going to have a baby. At that moment so many thoughts ran through my mind. I was extremely nervous and terr...
I went through several stages of labor and its difficulty, after which I was transferred to ICU where I
So, I told my doctor I wanted to be induced. After all, my due date was only two weeks away and only five percent of women give birth on the day determined by their doctors. When I was finally there, I looked at the outside, the hospital was set in a suburban – like area, and when I went inside the building, I was in a welcoming ultramodern facility. I went straight to the labor and delivery section where they said my doctor had gone out of town; nobody believed that I was supposed to be induced that day. It took them like 15 minutes to confirm what I had told them, to finally decide to take me to a room to connect all kinds of tubes to my body. I went into the room; it looked very comfortable, but it was freezing. I lay on the typical hospital bed, one of those that make sleeping and resting easier.
Over the years birthing methods have changed a great deal. When technology wasn’t so advanced there was only one method of giving birth, vaginally non-medicated. However, in today’s society there are now more than one method of giving birth. In fact, there are three methods: Non-medicated vaginal delivery, medicated vaginal delivery and cesarean delivery, also known as c-section. In the cesarean delivery there is not much to prepare for before the operation, except maybe the procedure of the operation. A few things that will be discussed are: the process of cesarean delivery, reasons for this birthing method and a few reasons for why this birthing method is used. Also a question that many women have is whether or not they can vaginally deliver after a cesarean delivery, as well as the risks and benefits if it. Delivering a child by a c-section also has a few advantages and disadvantages for both the mother and child; this will also be discussed in more depth a bit later.
During the perinatal period my mother was a very healthy pregnant lady and she does not experience morning sickness she ate everything. She was physically active and was not experiencing any emotional health issue. At antenatal stage my parents do not know my gender because there were no qualified midwives that can identify the gender of the baby during the 4 month pregnancy. My mother had to wait to find out the gender of her unborn baby until during labour stage. During the period of her labour she easily delivers the baby without no big issue. Labour can be hard for many pregnant women, but it was easy for my mother because she does not experience the labour pain like normal pregnant women.
Carnival is considered the biggest carnival in the world with 2 million people on the street per day it is a world famous festival held before Lent every year (Rio 2). In 2014 Carnival will begin on February 13 - the Friday before Ash Wednesday - and end on February 17 - the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. The Winners Parade will take place on the first Sunday of Lent after the parades are over.
After months and months of eating for two, constant visits to the doctors, and my husbands teasing, the moment of truth finally hit me. I was actually going to give birth to this tiny individual who had been living in my stomach for the past nine months. I was finally going to meet the creature that had been kicking me and keeping me from a great nights sleep. The one thing from this experience that I have learned is that nobody will ever be able ...