A woman shares why she needed an emergency C-section after her baby was diagnosed with congenital pneumonia and her blood pressure spiked during pregnancy. The hospital induced labor early, and her newborn spent a week in the hospital. She describes the experience as traumatic and a very dark time emotionally.
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Yeah, he was in it, unfortunately. I didn't have the best of experiences. He had congenital pneumonia, so he had fluid in his lungs and I had to have a C-section. So I was a bit paranoid because I was working a lot of hours and as I got bigger, I didn't feel him move as much. The hospital decided to induce me early. He was due on the 14th of November, but they were like, no, we need to induce you. And my blood pressure kept going up as well. So a bit of a traumatic experience for me, to be honest. Obviously not planning for a C-section. I was like, I'm going to do this naturally. Yeah. Push and all the rest of it, but it's not down to you, it's down to your body and what your body's capable of doing. And you know, it's not something that I— I was really upset about it. And he was in it for a week, and that week for me was hell. I was in a really dark place.