Nature of Birth

In Yukio Mashima's short story, Swaddling Clothes, a graphic birth scene is depicted. An at home nurse for a couple's baby begins to go into child labor in their home. She gives birth to her baby on the floor on a blanket. A doctor had arrived after the baby had been born. The doctor wrapped the infant in newspapers and left him on the floor. Toshiko is the only one that saw the infant in such a state which made her feel so terrible for the child. She felt that if this is how the infants very first minuets on earth were, his life had no chance in improving. She picked the baby up and swaddled the infant in blankets. A person's birth can effect them for the rest of their life because infants cannot decide who our parents are and what social class we will be born into. How you are born is most likely the life style you will live when you are grown. Mothers, in reality, hold the same fears as Toshiko. Mothers only want the best lives for their children and want to be able to provide their children with all the necessities of life. If baby's are born into a family with a difficult life, a difficult life that baby will live.