80 Life-or-Death Moments When Gut Feelings Became Unshakeable Lifelines
My new midwife just wanted it over with. She was clearly bored and kept offering to break my waters. I said no several times.
My ex went to update the waiting grandparents and while he was gone she decided to check how things were going. She asked to break my waters, I said no. She kept her hand inside my while I was having a contraction and kept asking me. I’ve no idea if I said yes or not, I just remember blinding pain, so possibly I said yes to make her stop whatever she was doing.
After that things went FAST. I was in so much pain and couldn’t figure out what my body was doing. It just didn’t feel right at all. I kept asking her to check on me and check on the baby, she wouldn’t.
By this point my ex had come back, and he was asking her to check and she just said it wasn’t time to yet.
I screamed my head off. I screamed and screamed for help until another midwife popped her head around the door to ask if everything was OK.
My midwife said yes, but I shouted “NO!!! PLEASE CHECK ON MY BABY!”
New midwife hesitated slightly, as she’d be disrespecting a colleague but ultimately decided to check me. She did a 30 second check and looked at my ex and said “press the red button. Now”.
With that the surgeon came in and I was rushed off for a c-section.
As I was being stitched up, it was explained what the emergency was. My body was trying to push, I was, without knowing it, fighting the urge to push. I was only 3cm dilated. My daughter was in distress. There was no oxygen in the cord blood.
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