Births in Africa

While doing some research I discovered that woman who give birth in Africa do so in a hot hut with a midwife. They normally are in a fetal position until it is time for the baby to come. The men wait outside the hut with the other men from the village by customs they are not allowed to be in the hut with their wife. Because of the lack of medications women in Africa give birth without drugs and if the midwife needs to cut them to allow more room for the baby to come it is done without medication they also get stitch up without medication. The birth is normally quite and when the baby arrives it is wrap up in a cloth and taken outside to be seen by its father and the village. The mother is not seen by her husband until the next day. As a woman that was raised in the US I could not imagine going through childbirth by myself. The experience along is scary but to know that you are alone in the process with a midwife that you might not even know is crazy. We take for granted the opportunities that we have here in the US, after reading this article I thank God everyday that I live in the states.