Answer the questions regarding the births of your parents, your brothers, your sisters, your grandparents, your spouse, and your children. You should know the details of your children's births well. You may know younger brothers' and sisters' births well from actually being there or from the stories your parents tell. You will have to ask parents or grandparents or other family members who would know the details. Maybe you could do a comparison of the births of different members of the family.
Some births happen quickly. Other births may take days. Some births are uneventful with a healthy baby being born and a mother recovering quickly. Other births may devastating with health problems for the baby or mother or even death being the result. I had a coworker who was born in a car in a snowstorm ten miles from the hospital. Fortunately, she and her mother were fine. I have heard of babies being born on the grass outside of a hospital. Some babies are born at home and others are born in a birthing center and others are born in a hospital. A hundred years ago most babies were born at home while now most babies are born in a hospital. Record how long labor took. Record if there were complications or if everything went well. Write about what procedures may have been performed. Indicate how long the mother and baby stayed in the hospital if that was where the birth took place. Record how the pregnancy went. Was there any morning sickness? Was bed rest required?
What were the feelings of the parents and other family members? Was the pregnancy planned for? Were the other children in the family happy and excited about a new sibling? Not every pregnancy is totally welcomed. Yet even with challenges parents can be happy about a new member in their family.
Adoptions are another way for new members to join a family. An adopted child is usually very much wanted. Recording the circumstances of why the adoption happened adds a lot to a family's story. Sometimes there is a lot of mystery with an adoption. Recording what is known can be important even though not all the details are known.
A birth is the beginning of a life. It is an important time in every life. Record the information about a birth to indicate the importance of that life. The information about a person's birth is a great way to start their life story.
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