Niko arrived blue and not breathing after 36 hours, but armed with more knowledge, I wasn’t fearful at the births of my other two children
Six years ago, while pregnant with my first son, I had hoped for a drug-free birth in a birth centre attached to a Melbourne public hospital. Not long into labour, I was already four centimetres dilated. I thought, “Yes! I’ve got this in the bag!” How wrong I was.
Niko arrived blue and not breathing 36 hours later. In that time, I had been transferred to the hospital and had an epidural and induction. When Niko’s heart rate dropped, an episiotomy and forceps helped to get him out. The doctors performed some miracle that had him breathing and back with me within a few minutes. But then I haemorrhaged almost 900 millilitres of blood. Fortunately, the skilled midwives quickly got the bleeding under control.
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Sophie Walker has a masters in public health from Monash University and a bachelors in health science and international relations from Latrobe University
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