"I was 14 when I gave birth. They put me under for an emergency C-section. When I was in the recovery room I had no idea if I had a boy or girl, so when I woke I asked the nurse who was changing the after-birth pad whether I had a boy or girl. He told me that I just woke up and he would not tell me."
"We found out before her first birthday that she has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and also has a unilateral hearing loss that has progressed to profound (meaning that her ear doesn't work at all, even with a hearing aid) I cant help but think that this was caused by her delivery. No one is willing to say that though."
"It shouldn’t matter a person's background whether married or not and no doctor should say so openly they think someone had a stillborn. That moment alone devastated me. My baby didn’t die and for the most part was healthy. A persons age doesn’t determine if they are good or bad parents either."
"My mom asked the nurse to check the next day before we were discharged but they never did and said I was fine. I was only home for a day before I had to go back to the ER. I ended up having an infection in my uterus and was admitted with my newborn to the paediatric ward for a week."
"At this point, I had no energy to push. They were going to give me a C-section, but then insisted on vaginal birth. I could not even push properly, I had nurses complaining to me that I didn't know how to push properly and my baby ended up getting stuck. They needed to do an episiotomy and use the forceps to get him out."
"I re-played the situation several times, wondering if I should have said something differently or not had the epidural. I've never had a situation in which I felt so out of control and it was hard to overcome."
"I personally feel like my emotions and concerns during one of the most life changing experiences I will ever have were completely disregarded and not taken seriously. I was petrified and confused because of conflicting things that were said and feel like I was a burden on that doctor. I feel like I wasn't taken seriously because of my age, the fact that I'm a young single mom who was having her first baby, and that I was alone without a partner while I was in labour."
