Childbirth
in Your Life and Around the World
Child birth is such an exciting, scary, and
awesome experience! I would like to share my personal experience with child
birth, when I gave birth to my daughter thirteen years ago! When you give
birth, you experience a sea of emotions; my thirteen year old daughter was my
third and last child. I was thirty years old when I gave birth to her, during
one of my Doctor’s visit my Doctor gave me some very unsettling test results.
The test results said that I had a possible chance of having a child with Down
syndrome, I was devastated, but, my family and especially my husband were very
supportive. Our culture and the faith in the Lord helped get us through that
time, fast forward my daughter was born healthy and she does not have down
syndrome, but, if she did we would have loved her still the same! I was able to
remain calm, positive, stress free, eat healthy, and continue with my prenatal
care, thus; improving my child’s chances of being emotionally healthy, because
the unborn fetus is impacted by social/emotional health.
The country that I chose to learn more
about in regard to child birth is Jamaica, I chose this country, because it is
my favorite vacation destination! I wanted to learn more about their testing
when it comes to Down syndrome and other genetic defects. I learned that not
until recently, Jamaica has testing available for genetic testing, but, the
cost is so expensive and the turnaround time for test results is long. The CARIGEN
genetic institute of the Caribbean has be offering the service locally for half
the cost of a karyotype, with a turnaround time of about three to five working
days. I was very happy to hear that, because these women and their children deserve the same quality
health care as their American counterparts!
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Here is a picture of my beautiful daughter, dressed for Halloween!
She is in eighth grade, time sure does fly!
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