Over the past two decades India has experienced enormous changes and growth and has exhibited its economic strength around the globe. Needless to say, this globalization has provided enormous opportunities to many of India’s citizens. More focus has been given to the modernized health care facilities and technical education for the urban sector. Today, much of urban India is a showcase for the successes of globalization.

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For me, this birth story began when my second son was a teenager. One day he commented to me, “You will be there when my wife has a baby, right?”

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Since my second pregnancy in 1999, family and friends have hoped for a girl. You see, we always preferred to keep our baby’s sex a surprise. The more I learned about birth, the more I resisted using technology simply because it was available. Since so little in life is truly a surprise, we appreciated the wonderment that comes with not knowing. I always felt connected just by feeling our baby growing and moving inside me; I didn’t need to know the gender.

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“Homebirth after cesarean” is a phrase that garners mixed reactions—most of them negative. “Why?” or “Are you insane?” they ask. The people who make these comments, however, usually have no idea about the realities of birth in the US.

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Birth stories…these are what nourish midwives. We relive them; we love to share them. They are the electric connection among us, the energy that keeps us going. They are the affirmations that this calling is worth the sacrifices.

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