Just having a book in your library, isn’t going to be of much use if you’ve never looked at it. Study it and learn the various stages of childbirth, what to do and what not to do both before, during and after the delivery. It is common knowledge that a sudden disaster or emergency will often cause a pregnant woman, who is getting close to her delivery date, to go into labor. Therefore, be prepared beforehand to handle a survival and childbirth situation.

Any woman of child-bearing years should also be prepared in another way. In a real TEOTWAWKI situation, getting pregnant could be a real threat to one’s survival. It would therefore behoove each person to have a supply of condoms and other methods of contraceptive included in their survival preparations.

Once things have settled down, the homestead is doing well, and everyone is managing to stay alive, then getting pregnant will probably be necessity. If there is no government plan to take care of the elderly, then children will be one’s investment in their “social security”. Once again, households will consist of several generations, with each person contributing toward the survival of all.

Until that point, the mix of survival and childbirth might be a less-than ideal. However, having said that, and being fully aware that procreation is often a driving force after a disaster, there will be many women who give birth in the first year following a TEOTWAWKI event.

It won’t be a time to send birth announcements, but it will be a time to be thankful that life does go on. And after all, isn’t that the whole point of preparedness? We intend to do what is necessary to go on, so survival and childbirth should be just another part of our preparations.

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