Saturday, March 5, 2011
Childbirth-In Your Life and Around the World
When I was 17 years old I had my first child Shaunte. Shaunte was a very easy pregnacy but I was a teen mom, so I didn't tell anyone I was pregnant into I was almost 6 months. Because of that Shaunte was only 5lbs and threw my whole prgnancy my doctors where very worried because I never gained weight and I had difficulty eating. My weight at that time was 117 but when I had Shaunte I went back down to 110. At that time I only gained 5lbs. So the prenantal vitamins and iron pills you take I didn't start tacking them into 61/2 months. Without proper diet and vitamins Shaunte would have been smaller than that. I chose this because reading the chapters I didn't know that that was the reason why my daughter was so small because I wasn't eating properly or tacking vitamins, so because of that Shaunte birth weight was affected. Reading the chapters have really made me more mindful about the different things babies can go through before they enter into this world and as a mom this was very good information for everyone to know even expected fathers about their pregnant wife, girlfriend, or mate. However, I find that in asian cultures children are thought highly of. They, too, have children starting in their teen years. Prenatal care is not thought of until the end of the pregnacy or not at all. This led me to conclude that with or without vitamins my pregnancy could have been just a characteristic of my own.
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Hello Denice,
ReplyDeleteBeing very knowledgable does help but I'm glad that you were taking your vitamins. It's just something that you learned from like we all have to learn from things. There were somethings that I learned from my daughter during her pregnancy. I didn't know what preeclampsia was and I have 2 children, a 28 year old and a 16 year old. Pregnancy is different for each individual.
Great post Denise!!
Denice,
ReplyDeleteHaving a baby,at such a young age can be hard on both the Mother and the baby. I have a niece who had a baby at 19 and another 14 months later at 20. Both boys are fine but her body went through a lot with back to back pregnancies. Some babies receive optimal prenatal care and they are born weighing 5lbs., their genetics made them small. I hope Shaunte is doing well.
Hello Denice it is nice to meet you. I am glad you had an easy pregnacy but you stated that you had a hard time eating through out yur pregnacy could that have had an impact on her birth weight more than the fact of late prenatal care?
ReplyDeleteNice post. I can identify. My cousin got pregnant at 13 and we were very close so I went through it with her. She hid it for the first 3 or 4 months, but she had a 1o lb baby. I couldn't believe that she was a mother at 14. She did well after the first few years though and only had one more son years later. I am glad your baby survived.
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