A mistake in labour left me traumatised
Mar 30, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS: KIM WILLIS.
Placing a protective hand over my bump, I was daydreaming about what it was going to be like to give birth. Pregnant with my first child, I smiled as I imagined the moment our newborn baby would be placed in my arms and my husband Chris and I gazed at him lovingly. I thought maternity leave would be full of coffee and cake, baby swimming and baby-yoga classes. Sam and I didn’t get to experience any of that.
I went into labour six weeks early in October 2011. The best way for a baby to pass through the pelvis is with their body facing the mother’s back, but Sam was back to back, which
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