Mine was hours, I can’t recall how long, I think a couple, I’d eaten, they decided to do it and prepared to take me down, and then basically changed their minds and held off as they suddenly asked if I’d eaten, so wanted to monitor me and wait, there wasn’t an immediate threat.
I haemorrhaged on the table and was awake for it, and spent over three hours in there, with a large team of doctors and nurses, which was traumatic for both my husband and I.
It’s not like the movies though, blood everywhere kind of thing. That doesn’t Happen, when you heammorage it’s actually large blood clots they remove and they can’t sew you up until they stop the bleeding They take your womb out and sit it beside your body when they stop it. They have to tell you as you can hear them talking and also on the phone when they were urgently requesting more medical staff in to the theatre.
I thought I was going to be sick and they had to talk me down from it, said it was the shock of what was happening to me, and that if I vomited it could be fatal as they couldn't sit me up. So I could inhale the vomit into my lungs if I vomited laying down.
I didn’t vomit, which was. result really that they waited since I’d eaten,,,