Well, there was the almost dying of blood loss, too. The Boy inherited the wide shoulders of his dad's side of the family and I'm not an overly large person. He got stuck and in addition to the head of the obgyn department, there was a dude there (which I agreed to) that was attending his first honest to goodness birth. He panicked when the baby got stuck and tried to force The Boy to come on out.
That ended up doing most of the tearing and nicked a vein. I didn't have my glasses on but even I could see the amazing fountain of blood that shot into the air and then continued to spurt. The head obgyn actually shoved the newbie out of the way and went to work fast to stop the bleeding.
I lost just over 2 pints of blood before she managed to stop the bleeding. She'd actually yelled for my blood to be cross-matched for transfusion, which I yelled right back, no (Ontario was in the midst of a tainted blood scandal at the time, thousands ended up infected with hepC).
So, yeah. 12 hours of intense pain followed by almost dying. So not doing that ever again. And I don't like children.
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Date: 2014-01-17 12:31 pm (UTC)That ended up doing most of the tearing and nicked a vein. I didn't have my glasses on but even I could see the amazing fountain of blood that shot into the air and then continued to spurt. The head obgyn actually shoved the newbie out of the way and went to work fast to stop the bleeding.
I lost just over 2 pints of blood before she managed to stop the bleeding. She'd actually yelled for my blood to be cross-matched for transfusion, which I yelled right back, no (Ontario was in the midst of a tainted blood scandal at the time, thousands ended up infected with hepC).
So, yeah. 12 hours of intense pain followed by almost dying. So not doing that ever again. And I don't like children.