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My book #Belabored comes out tomorrow and the best/worst part about writing it was hearing everyone& #39;s labor stories. I know there are many ways to mother and not all of them involve labor. But If you have them let& #39;s hear them! I& #39;ll tell you mine. The news sucks today anyway
With my first my water broke but I wasn& #39;t having regular contractions. I went in and labored 12 hours with pitocin and eventually with an epidural (would love an epidural rn actually). Pushed four hours. She was vacuumed out.
Afterwords I was passing in and out of consciousness, not sure why. Doctor was worried. I had no idea what was happening. I finally wake up with the doctor giving me a suppository and watching a nurse mop up a giant pool of my blood on the floor.
I had no idea what was happening and no one told me. When I asked, my doctor told me I had some bleeding not to worry. My recovery was rough. It wasn& #39;t until I went to have my second and I was having nightmares about my blood on the floor that I finally found out what happened
I had postpartum hemorrhaging and serious and rare condition and it can be life threatening AND NO ONE FUCKING TOLD ME! They were all like, don& #39;t worry about it.
I& #39;m still so mad. Like if you almost die during knee surgery they TELL YOU. But I had a lady doctor so I thought I& #39;d be fine.
I just wish laboring women got some goddamn respect. Like I& #39;m birthing a human please tell me what the hell is happening. My doctor absolutely refused to tell me how many stitches I got. Still. To this day.
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