Emergency hysterectomy after having a baby – Tasha’s Story

I was twenty four years old when I went into labor with my first child. My water broke as soon as I woke up that morning, but after that labor was slow. After nearly 23 hours my doctor decided we should do a Cesarean, because the baby was stuck and wasn’t descending through my pelvis the way she should. I was so exhausted that I agreed right away and they whisked me off to the operating room. Everything seemed to go fine, and after a few days in the hospital we were sent home. Exactly 14 days later I bolted out of bed in the middle of the night, feeling like my water broke all over again. I rushed into the bathroom to find bright red blood filling my pad and underwear. I called out for my fiancé and told him to get my mother, who lives with us and is an emergency room nurse. She saw what was happening and quickly called an ambulance. In the E.R. the doctor inspected me and I felt a gush of blood let loose from between my legs. The nurses were racing around, trying to get blood from the blood bank but it was taking too long. The technician panicked and didn’t understand their orders for O-, the universal donor blood. Finally they got me hooked up and pushed the cold fluids into my body. I was shaking uncontrollably from the chill. My doctor showed up, looking so sad and scared. They called in a surgeon and I was taken into the O.R. so they could put a medical balloon in my uterus in the hopes of stopping the bleeding for long enough to air lift me to a bigger hospital...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Latest News Post Birth Your Stories hysterectomy post partum haemorrhage Source Type: news