My cousin's birth experience

My cousin, Ying, 23 years old. She found out she was pregnant before she made the final decision to get married with her boyfriend. I was with her all the time, as we have been the close friends since we were little girls. She was anxious at the beginning as she was not ready to be a mom, and she did not know whether the family was ready for that either. China is still very traditional and conservative in that way that women should not be the single moms. However, her family turned out to be very supportive, and her boyfriend proposed to her as well. She decided to keep the baby. I went to hospital with her regularly as I love children, and I was happy for her to be a mom. She paid attention to her diet more carefully, kept to be optimistic during her pregnancy, walked around the lake next to her compound everyday, and talked to the fetus and touched it when it moved. Her husband was been supportive as well. They went to the classes to learn parenting for new-born babies together, read about the books about babies, and went to the hospital to gather too. Her husband did not smoke anymore during the pregnancy time. On Aug.27th 2011, their baby came to this world. A beautiful girl! This is one of the common case of the births here in China nowadays. Prenatal development is getting more and more popular in China, which you would not be able to think of it in 40 years ago.
I chose this case, as her experience was really different from the experience of my mom's generation in China. I was lucky that I was born in the hospital, but the majority of Chinese babies were still born at home back to 1970's. In the past 30-40 years, China is experiencing the great change with the development of economy and education. More and more people are well-educated now, and they realize the importance of the prenatal development for children. Back to the old time, parents were struggling with their living so they did not have sense of prenatal development, or they could not afford any good diet for the pregnant women.
My generation, it is easy to tell that we are the transitional generation. Most of us did not have good nutrition in prenatal stage, so we are still not that tough when we grow up. Look at the generation now. Their parents paid more attention to the diet and the health of the fetuses. When this generation in their teens, they are really tall and healthy looking. I should say it must have something to do with the prenatal development.
Thinking of the countries in Africa, China and Africa are still fighting against the poverty in certain areas. The pregnant women are not being taken good care of. Children are born with deformed bodies or disease from the parents are pretty common in Africa. China has the same problem, but the government is trying to get this situation under control. More and more hospitals are built in rural areas in China, and the workshops are held in those areas as well to wake up the awareness of the importance of being a healthy pregnant woman. I do appreciate it. I hope that could happen in more African countries too.