My Birthing Experience

                I can remeber just like it was yesterday when one of my good friends told me she was having a baby and she wanted me to be to be the god-mother of her child. It seems like the pregnancy went so fast because one week she had just gotten pregnant and the next week I was getting a call from her child's father that her water broke and they were heading to the hospital. When I got the news of her water braking I stopped everything I was doing, but the funny part is I dont remember telling my boss I would be gone for the remaining of the day.
               When I arrive to the hospital I phone her child's father to see where they were and what was he conditions looking like. All he could do was tell me to hurry and bring my but on because she really wanted me there to experience the birth and she couldnt hold the baby in much longer. After about 20 minutes my god-daughter popped out and said " Hello World" . I can say that this was the happiest moment in my life to where I was able to experience a life being brought into this world and that I was apart of this new celebration. After days passed I would called my friend in the hospital because after she gave birth she kind of became sick and lost a lot of blood, but the doctor would say that she was okay and needed rest, but that was her way of not making me worry about her. At that moment I began to think about the baby's health and would she have any complications but the doctor confirmed that she was healthy. ( What a relief ). I knew whatever was going on with the baby and the mother both would be taken care of and the baby would definitely receive the love, nurture, and care that she needed.
                 Sometimes I sit and wonder about the child births in the island countries and if their medical field is as advance as the United States. I actually think about their religion beliefs as for as how and where they baby should be born, how the baby should be raised, and etc. After researching and talking to former colleagues I gathered that child birth in the island countires happen in the hospital but home births are more dominant. Natural care and feeding is imperative to the mother. They dont believe in to much organic or formuals. Unlike the islands the U.S families are more dominant to having babies in the hospital to where they know they both will be taken care of. U.S. believe in medicine and other procedures to get one healthy. At the end of the day both countires familes will do whatever it takes to ensure that their child is healthy.
                Froms  what I have learned thus far I realized that a child's birth place has a lot to do with his or her development. I have also learned that accorninng to Smidt child development is a duscipline which aims to identify, to describe and to predict patterns in children's growth where growth includes intellectual, linguistic, physical, social, emotional, and behaviorial development ( Smidt, 2009 ).