I never thought too much into the phrase, "the miracle of life," but that changed after reading more about the process in the book and also watching this week's movie. It is a miracle that we are alive and relatively healthy in the first place. It seemed that every step of the was a path filled with land mines. A wrong step and our single cell bodies would have been unfit to raise by our mother's body. Then came the thoughts of having something go wrong while someone is pregnant and the risks that are around all the time. I do not have any children but that particular though scared me a bit, considering that I do want kids some day.
Reading about the stages of birth is one thing, I am sure those of you that have experienced it have your own stories about it.
There are many ways of going through childbirth, natural childbirth, having a child in a hospital or with the aid of a midwife, then there are relatively new ways such as water birthing or by cesarean.When it is time for the baby to be born, there must be care in order to have the baby be free of complications. In case of a breech birth, it may be needed to do a cesarean or turn the baby while in the womb. After the child id born, many things start to happen quickly. Soon , the baby will begin have neonatal reflexes that usually are used to asses the newborn's neurological functioning, as stated on page 93.
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