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.
Wow! REALLY GLAD you both are ok! When my new OB came in to check the staples, he asked if I noticed that he had signed his work ; ) So sad that it hurt to laugh back then! He was great and I stayed with him for years.