Allowing the child to take part in the birthing process, translated…
“Ring-Ring-Ring”, the phone started ringing off the hook, my grandson “Fish” kept an eye out for his mommy’s every single movement, seeing how mommy looked excited and nervous at the same time, being a second year kindergarten student, he knew, that there would be important duties he needed to handle very shortly.
Just as he’d expected, mommy turned toward “Fish”, ordered, “Quick! Aunty Fang-Fang is about to have a baby!” in these two years, Fish had already become really quick to act, as he’d gone on house calls with his mom to the ladies about to give birth, he’d grabbed a couple of picture books, and a few toys, and, the mother and son pair were, out the door!
They rode all the way from Shijr to Linkou, seeing Fish’s aunt, uncle, and the three months old cousin, Chi-Chi, accompanying Aunt Fang-Fang who was contracting.
After mommy entered as a part of the delivery crew, she’d told Fish, to take care of Auntie Fang Fang’s three-year-old son, Fish took the younger cousin, read stories, played toys with him, and, the two little boys would also give console to the younger girl too. When Auntie Fang Fang was moaning in pain, he’d gone over to her, to give her encouragements, he was truly, an able-bodied little help for his mommy and auntie, the two midwives!
“Wah! Wah!”, “The baby is here! It’s a pretty little girl! Can she be my girlfriend when she’s older?”, Fish’s childish words made Auntie Fang-Fang smile, she forgot how much strains she’d weathered in the delivery process, Fish is, his mommy’s homebirth program’s best spokesperson all right!
In Taiwan, where the primary condition for giving birth is in the hospitals, my two daughters who are midwives are willing to run all over the places, to give everything, and leading the women who are giving birth, to do so, in a familiar environment, using the noninvasive measures, to welcome a new life, so they could have an alternative kind of birthing experience, I’d made me, their mother, in awe too.
Fish and Chi-Chi, my two grandkids, being raised in families with midwives, would have a ton of opportunities to follow their mommies on calls. I think, it would give them a more enriching life education, and will turn into a positive driving force in their lives.
Here, I’m going to call out to my daughters and grandkids, “Keep up the great work, you all!”
And so, this, is a home birthing experience, that a lot of people are returning back to right now, because they want to be in a familiar and comfortable environment, their homes, and, these two young children who followed their moms on these calls would be more understanding of life, because they were there, as the birthing process happens.