I had a wonderful pregnancy which ran by the book until labour.I went through 2 days of pain before they finally gave me an epidural then after an hour or so of pushing and a distressed baby and mother, some bright spark decided to try forceps and ventouse instead of a c-section.My DD was delivered not breathing and had suffered shoulder distocia. They gave me an episiotomy but I suffered 3rd degree tearing. I lost over 5 pints of blood and nearly didn't make it.My daughter spent 2 days in SCBU and luckily has made a full recovery. She is 7 months old and I am still not fully healed.I am told this is common but aneed to hear for myself if anyone has been through similar.
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Mumsnet doesn't verify the qualifications of users. If you have medical concerns, please consult a healthcare professional.
General health
Horrors of birth they don't warn you about.
32 replies
babybliss · 04/11/2004 13:24
OP posts:
Don’t want to miss threads like this?
Weekly
Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!
Log in to update your newsletter preferences.
You've subscribed!
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.