ME:1) How did pregnancy affect you physically, emotionally, or in other ways?
PERSON 1: Physically the first three months I felt weak, dizzy and emotional - cried for anything. When pregnant you need to pee more constantly and start to walk differently and more slowly. And regular routines like walking up stairs take longer and more effort. I couldn't bend over to pick up something or tie shoes after six months. I began to hate my once favorite foods, for example meat would give me nausea during my pregnancy. Had to wear looser clothes because the more into one is in the 9 months, the bigger your stomach gets and breasts as well. After 6 months or 7 months of preganacy, it is not easy to sleep, because you need to move constantly so you can in a postion that doesn't hurt the baby or make he/she uncomfortable. ( His/her way of letting you know this is by kicking, which most other people find cute but can be painful). Prganancy makes you get hungry more constantly. I personaly began to crave sour and spicy food, having to squeeze a lemon on all the food especially on cucumbers.
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ME: 2) What did you do, while pregnant, to prepare for giving birth?
PERSON 1: Began to buy things for baby, from their cradle to its clothes, especially for their first day out of hospital outfit! I would take long walks because it was healthy for me to get some exercise and the sooner the date of birth would be. Took respiratory classes in hospital to learn to relax when the time of birth came and a class of what food to give to 6 month baby and the position to feed baby newborn baby, allowing it to breathe while breast feeding and not choke. Whenever I had a question about my pregnancy would call my mother and ask her being that she had gone through 9 births. I also read a book of how baby grows in the womb and how must take of care of baby during and after birth.
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ME: 3) What actions and attitudes by specific other people made your pregnancy and birth more joyous? More challenging?
PERSON 1: The advice from my mother who told me it was all going to be alright and would be over soon made my pregnancy more joyous. When giving birth to first child the doctor gave them the wrong birth date leading to have a C - section to give birth to the baby, was what made birth more challenging.
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ME: 4) What thoughts and feelings influenced your choice to make a baby?
PERSON 1: I had planned to have a baby that as soon as was married a year into marriage would began my family.
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ME: 5) What feelings come back to you when you remember labor and giving birth?
PERSON 1: I recall the pain and being scared during the labor but also remember having a sense of relief and happiness to have finally given birth a healthy and whole baby.
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The stories of these women ties into our unit because it provided the point of view of mother and let me know a lot more about pregnancy that I would have never dared to ask unless i knew wanted start a family or pregnant. Found out things like there is certain way to sleep and that there is pain which i known of a pregnancy but that it can be surpassed for the happiness of giving life:-)
What are important things mothers should know while pregnant to be ready to take care of the baby to come? (From breast feeding to sleeping)
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