Birth Stories of Trinidad and Tobago: Stacey Thomas-Ayin

Abstract

Stacey Thomas-Ayin is a surveying technician employed at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus., Trinidad and Tobago. She shares her feelings on first learning that she was expecting her first child. She remembers being scared and excited. She sought private medical care within the first six weeks of learning about her pregnancy. Eventually, she signed up at Mamatoto Birth Centre for childbirth classes. She shares her entire birth experience