Recently, Moms Council member Julie Short posted a link on Facebook about parents asking about their children being present in the delivery room for the birth of their new baby.
The article said that older children can be less jealous of their new sibling if they are there when it's born. A Boston Globe article told of 2- and 4-year-old children yelling "Push, push" during delivery, and a 7-year-old cutting the umbilical cord.
One hospital requires that each child in the delivery room be assigned to an adult for supervision and care.
Today, let's talk children and childbirth. Does this make sense or have these parents just completely lost their minds? Would you be able to deal with contractions and your other children at the same time, or is that taking multi-tasking a wee bit too far?
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My kids would get scared seeing the whole process. They do not understand the whole concept yet of how a baby is made or born. If they saw me in pain it would freak them out. We had the kids in the room after our daughter was born and she was being cleaned up under the warmer. They walked in and went straight to the warmer. I would have loved to had been holding the baby when they walked in. They were amazed with how small she was and what the nurse was doing but they don't need to see the process it took to get to that point.
I honestly don't get the whole "jealous" theory. What would they be jealous about? Kids are going to have a very rough time in life if that is what we are worried about them being "jealous" over. On a lighter note to this topic, it would be a great form of birth control for teenagers if someone happened to have a teenager and mommy got pregnant (my sister had a 13-year when she found out she was pregnant with her third). But a 4-year old doesn't understand any of this.