I appreciated reading this so much. My son and I survived a medical error with an injectable while I was in labor. He was no born alive and needed to be resuscitated and transferred to a NICU in a larger hospital. We had transferred as an attempted home birth. We were told “this is what happens with home births” and it wasn’t until he wa…
I appreciated reading this so much. My son and I survived a medical error with an injectable while I was in labor. He was no born alive and needed to be resuscitated and transferred to a NICU in a larger hospital. We had transferred as an attempted home birth. We were told “this is what happens with home births” and it wasn’t until he was 10 weeks old that we were told the truth. If we had been told immediately (as they knew immediately) it would have changed the entire experience. To have been ostracized from friends, family, community for advocating informed consent during the Covid shot rollout has been one of the most challenging things of my life. To have been hurt by allopathic medicine as we were and then vilified so openly has been so painful but I’m grateful for what I have learned and how it has changed my sense of motherhood. I’ve become alarmingly aware of the importance of self advocacy and clear as to what I’ll sacrifice to remain aligned with my experiential knowing.
Thank you for illuminating these topics, we need more doctors to speak out.
I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it. I wrote my undergrad thesis on the medicalization of childbirth. I think there may be other work at play here for me as related to this “accident”. Maybe one day I will watch it.
I appreciated reading this so much. My son and I survived a medical error with an injectable while I was in labor. He was no born alive and needed to be resuscitated and transferred to a NICU in a larger hospital. We had transferred as an attempted home birth. We were told “this is what happens with home births” and it wasn’t until he was 10 weeks old that we were told the truth. If we had been told immediately (as they knew immediately) it would have changed the entire experience. To have been ostracized from friends, family, community for advocating informed consent during the Covid shot rollout has been one of the most challenging things of my life. To have been hurt by allopathic medicine as we were and then vilified so openly has been so painful but I’m grateful for what I have learned and how it has changed my sense of motherhood. I’ve become alarmingly aware of the importance of self advocacy and clear as to what I’ll sacrifice to remain aligned with my experiential knowing.
Thank you for illuminating these topics, we need more doctors to speak out.
Thank you. Have you seen the business of being born by any chance? It's a great documentary you'd probably appreciate.
I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it. I wrote my undergrad thesis on the medicalization of childbirth. I think there may be other work at play here for me as related to this “accident”. Maybe one day I will watch it.
I am happy you survived.
Thank you Celayne. Who knows maybe if that hadn’t happened we would be suffering from a Covid vaccine injury or worse be dead.
Maybe it was a blessing in disquisition, but it’s too bad you had to go through that pain and fear.