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MIDWIFE Delivers Own Baby USING Makeup MIRROR
So many of us think of birth as something that absolutely must take place in a hospital with a team of doctors around for intervention and to administer pain medication. Sometimes this is definitely the case, and medical intervention is needed. But there are times when birth, which is a natural and beautiful thing women can do, can be performed unassisted. Yes, you have to have a healthy pregnancy. But mama-to-be must also have absolute faith in her body and her ability to birth.
Which we should all have. You have faith in yourself for being able to use the bathroom, right? You pee and poo without any help most of the time. Birth is just another function our bodies can perform. Which is why I’m not too shocked when learning that a midwife delivered her own baby at home with the help of a makeup mirror. This wasn’t in her birth plan — she had her own midwife, but her baby came sooner than she expected.
Claire Clarke-Wood, 28, had just finished a 13-hour shift at Croydon University Hospital in London. She said it was a busy day with a lot of moms having babies, but she didn’t think it was her time since she was still three weeks away from her due date. She was having back pains, but she was working a long shift, so she thought nothing of it.
When she got home she was having some contractions but nothing severe or close together. She went to bed, but around 5 a.m., she woke up her husband Tim because those contractions were getting stronger. She decided to go into the bath and a bit later checked to see what was going on with her mother’s little mirror. It was time!
She called her midwife, but baby wasn’t going to wait. That’s when Claire’s midwifery experience took over — she stayed calm, relaxed, and realized that yes she was scared but she knew she could do this. With her husband by her side and her mom’s mirror helping them, she delivered a 6-pound, 12-ounce baby girl they named Esmay right there in the bathroom.
Okay so not every woman has midwifery training but every woman can educate herself on birth — it’s empowering. Our bodies can do amazing things. We just have to have faith in them. When you are pregnant, learn all you can — relaxation techniques, HypnoBirthing, breathing exercises — this way you can take the fear out of birth and have the best experience you can. Sure, not everyone is going to have an unassisted birth in their own bathroom, but staying calm and trusting your body will do wonders for you wherever you have your baby.
Do you think you would be this calm if it became go-time while you were at home?
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wow
January 3, 2012 at 10:24 am
thumbs up to that woman
Journets Touren
January 3, 2012 at 11:07 am
Hw had is it evn if Clark dd it.
mukmo
January 3, 2012 at 11:31 am
she was lucky her delivery had no complications. i dont think this article was written by a woman coz i can confidently say it was sheer luck that she managed to deliver on her own thats why it even became news
ba zambia
January 3, 2012 at 12:02 pm
GOD BLESS
Zed boy
January 3, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Deep!
gift
January 3, 2012 at 12:45 pm
But there are times when birth, which is a natural and beautiful thing women can do, can be performed unassisted. Yes, you have to have a healthy pregnancy. Thats for you mukmo
A. MADICHI
January 3, 2012 at 1:03 pm
wonderful 2 da lady.
RKO
January 3, 2012 at 1:08 pm
anakazi ngao’ngao.
eric malambo
January 3, 2012 at 3:02 pm
she is lucky weh. DONT TRY THIS AT HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Last Don
January 3, 2012 at 3:14 pm
its not easy! big up, @ MUKMO pipo do deliver on themselves if there is no help, remember the woman who gave birth in a tree in Mozambique some years back when they had a flood!
chaona
January 3, 2012 at 10:38 pm
This is fun and news to most town dwellers, but go to our remote zambia, it happens regularly and frequently. By the time elderly women come they just hear the baby crying “ng’a..ng’a..ng’a…” and more especially when labour start st night. Thus why they say “TANG’A WEKA VUMO LOYAMBA”
Uko
January 3, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Just like our ancestors did back in the day. May our ancestral spirits be blessed
pano chola
January 4, 2012 at 12:30 pm
my late aunty did it wen she went out in the field mukusekwila tute, she went alone in th field bt came with a baby in her hands wen asked she said she did it on her own, the girl is 16yrs old now.
Kantwa
January 4, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Birth is bloody and life threatening, lets not have illusions about it!
rk
January 4, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Thumbs up mama!God bless.
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January 27, 2012 at 5:30 am
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gayman
November 16, 2012 at 3:20 pm
SHE HAD A VERY STRAIGHT FORWARD PREGNANCE, JUST WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS. THREE WEEKS EARLIER, NOT PROBS, BABY WILL HAVE ALREADY BEEN READY TO FACE THE CHALLENGES OF THIS OUR STRANGE WORLD. GOOD ON HER