"It's Great."

I want to say that I think it's great for a woman in labor to have people who love her surrounding her and helping her. If the mother is uncomfortable with someone being in the room, the person shouldn't be there. It should NOT be brought up in the middle of it all, but before the drive to the hospital. I felt like my husband abandonded me in order to keep his mom company.
Therese Walker
August 26, 2003

"She was just amazing."

"My mom was my labour coach. It was awesome. My husband was at sea in the US Navy when our daughter was born and so he wasn't there..but my mom was. She rubbed my back, played crib with me in the early part of labour, helped me time contractions, went out at 4am to buy film for the camers..at the hospital, she held my hands when I needed that pressure on my palm, held the basin when I threw up and was just amazing. To this day (almost a year later), she and my daughter still have an amazingly close relationship. Heck, sometimes the baby wants her "Ama" more than me!"

"For my next baby, I want both my husband and my mom there. My mom to coach and my husband to hand-hold!"

Susan Dewbre
Nelson, BC, Canada
9 September 2002


"What great joy."

"I attended the birth of my first grandchild as a support person to my daughter and her husband. I am a midwife and have attended many births, but none can compare to the joy of my daughter having her first child. We did not know the sex of the child. My daughter's husband was one of four boys so he was sure this baby was a boy. After the baby's head came out I helped my daughter reach down and lift her own baby out and since she was the first to see the baby, she announced, "It's a girl!" What great joy! This little girl is now six years old and continues to be the joy of our lives."

Grandma Sharon
San Luis Obispo, CA
17 September 2002



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