Very scary, isn’t it? I was so tired that all I could say was ‘somebody please, help me’. For a long time, we were worried that he may have had some oxygen deprivation, but he is ok. My mistake was going to a Family Medicine Doctor instead of an obstetrician. I know many Family Medicine Doctors are quite competent.....but mine wasn’t in that category. I did continue going to the OB that delivered my son. Glad your birth experience turned out ok for you and your daughter. I just get incensed when people pretend that C-sections are only for convenience.
I was crying after a point. And I had this dumb FEMALE obstetrician lecturing me on how terrible c-sections were. Finally, when the next doctor came on duty, he threw a fit, yelling, “THIRTY SIX HOURS! WHY ARE YOU DUMB B*TCHES TORTURING THIS WOMAN!? MAMA IS SMALL, BABY IS BIG. WE’RE CUTTING HER OPEN!”
Seriously, there was a bit of a feminist agenda going on with the female obstetrician and the labor nurses.
Twenty minutes later, I was a brand new mother, with a beautiful baby girl — with a bruised forehead where she kept hitting my pelvic bones. She wasn’t making it out the ‘natural’ way without severe brain damage.
I still should have sued.