Article January 15, 2001 Issue

Childbirth: spiritual and natural

By Valerie Machado

When I found out I was pregnant last year, my husband and I were delighted. After several months we contacted the midwife who had delivered our second child. We had had our first two children at home, and we wanted the same for our third.

At 30 weeks I went for a routine checkup, and to everyone's surprise, the midwife found two heartbeats. Wow! Since Florida's laws do not allow home births for mothers who are having twins, we had to find a doctor. Our midwife suggested someone who turned out to be the perfect doctor for us. This was proof of God's care. I started having checkups with him, and everything went along fine.

With a twin birth, however, come a lot of predictions—that there is a high risk of complications; that there is more danger of the babies arriving too early or too late.

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