Last Saturday M and I attended an express birth education class sponsored by the hospital I am goging to deliver. This 7-hour class covered topics like introduction to labor, coping with labor, challenging labors, assisted and cesarean birth, and a tour of the hospital and maternity units.
During the coping with labor section, the nurse talked about signs of labor, stages and physiologic changes during labor, as well as relaxation and coping with labor contractions during a chanlleging labor. In the end of this secion, she showed us a labor and birth video.
The video made me cry.
It showed the moments of fragility, pain, agony, and bliss when real mothers delivered their babies. Their anguished moanings when they push, their exhausting faces during the long time suffering, their watering eyes because of the pain, and their relieving smile when they finally hold their newborns, all of these really touched me. Tears came to my eyes…
If this is the sacrifice I am going to make for the birth of my baby, I am going to do it. Since I made the decision to have a baby eight months ago, I will go ahead to face the consequences and shoulder the responsibilities. No matter how hard and how painful it will be, I don’t regret the initial decision I made and I will be always grateful for the most priceless gift bestowed by God.
From Lina, Late-Pregnancy | Lina | 
May 1, 2008 12:42 pm | 
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