My personal birthing experience was the birth of my oldest daughter.  Books can only teach you so much but when reality really strikes you tend to forget everything or at least just about everything you learned or read about the dos and don’ts of childbirth.  Administering the Epidural wasn’t around during the time of my childbearing days and I experience great amounts of pain.  I remember the nurse telling me how I would be okay in the middle of a contraction, which is definitely something someone in that type of pain does not want to hear at that particular moment.  But in the end, the birth of my firstborn erased that pain shortly after.

I choose this example because I have never experienced anything like it and I’ll never forget it.  Even though at that time it was very painful and I’m sure even more before my time having a baby in this day and time seems to be a whiz.  While thinking back I understand some of things the book tried to fore warn me but I do believe experience was my teacher and if I could I probably would do it all over again.

The region I chose was Nigeria.  Only 57.7% pregnant women receive prenatal care (www.tradingeconomics.com).  At first I didn’t realize how important it was to seek prenatal care.  It literally thought it was a waste of time but having this available made so much of a difference and helped my to think of what was expected even though I didn’t remember much during that time.  What was interesting about this was that this is on a decline when in January of 2000 over 63% pregnant women sought prenatal care.  Prenatal care can depict early signs of defects and it monitors the baby’s growth.

References

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/nigeria/pregnant-women-receiving-prenatal-care-percent-wb-data.html