Thoughts on Birth...

"What a beautiful experience'" is what everyone says. I feel the same way at times but it is only because I am not experiencing it for myself. When you are young you always played games about how many children you were going to have, planning your wedding and even what your house is going to look like. I have always loved working with children and want to have some of my own someday. I always said I wanted ten kids but is that really what I want after hearing what giving birth is really like? What is going to happen when the baby is crying in the middle of the night, then will I think it is cute? Many thoughts of kids in the future pass my mind. I've always thought about being a "soccer mom" but hearing all the experiences and how much it will change your life is making me think twice. I spoke to my mom about her experience of giving birth and she said it was painful. After being in labor with me for 27 in a half hours without any type of medicine or shot such as an epidural . Today in class really grossed me out when Andy got into some details about birth such as what a chuck is. A chuck is a cloth they put underneath you for all the blood when you are giving birth. Giving birth is the part that scares me but to see your baby in your arms is beautiful. I have two different reactions towards birth: beautiful but life changing. You get to experience motherhood and never forget the pain you went through as well. I connected this all back to an article I read about a woman who gave birth to eight children by having in-vitro fertilization. The woman already has six children all different ages and now she has eight more. She does not have a job and just recently lost her house. I don't understand why doctors would let her choose in-vitro knowing that she has six children already and is not financially able. To know she has and was able to have more children is a blessing but to know that everyone will be paying taxes that are going to her because she is unemployed is not fair. As far as myself, I still want to have children but ten children I am think in twice about.