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Content Warning: The following is a personal story that contains experience with gender trauma.

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When I saw headlines about the influence of the Haliley Okula, aka “nurse hailey”, I felt a sinking sensation in my stomach. Although she died of a rare complication of pregnancy – amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) – that was what I knew about. That’s because I experienced him during the birth of my own son. But obviously my outcome was quite different.

When I went to the hospital to deliver my second child, everything was smooth until I hit about five inches. My work stopped and I had that weird, who passed the feeling that something should go wrong.

At that moment, the nurse rushed to tell us that the beating of our son’s heart started falling. My husband held my hand, and I started to feel very nausea and light. Then everything faded to black.

“I don’t see!” I remember screaming. My doctor rushed to my side. My blood pressure fell dangerously low, and I didn’t get enough oxygen. They gave me a more dose of drugs designed to get me under control to my bloodstream, but my heart beat continued to consolidate. I shot so great that I can’t even do an electrocardiogram, a test that would show how well my heart works.

My doctor told me that one of three things happened: I reacted to the epidural, I have pulmonary embolism (blood clot in your lungs), or experiencing AFE. AFE would be the most serious conditions – that would mean that amniotic fluid in my bloodstream and causes a dangerous reaction, which could be fatal.

What happened next is the blur

My doctor ordered CT scan to determine what was happening. As a nurse, he leaves the room from the room, the view of my husband’s face said everything – he was scared.

After scanning, my doctor told me that they turned off the possibility of clot in my lungs, but they were leading to the operating room for the immediate C-section. Since my doctor couldn’t give me a formal diagnosis yet, she said she should be intubated for the procedure. In this way, they could carefully monitor my condition. I looked toward my doctor and said, “I don’t want to die.” She promised to do whatever she could guard me.

In the operating room, I tied my hands at the table so I wouldn’t fall, and I felt so helpless. My husband was not allowed to be in the operating room, because I was placed under general anesthesia. My sister leaned into me and said, “You’ll keep your baby.” Then I was put underneath.

I am diagnosed with amnital fluid embolism

When I woke up, the doctor was next to me. She was a tear and said that my newborns Rigsby was great, but if I had experienced AFE.

AFE is “extremely rare complication of delivery,” says Greg MarchandMD, OB-GYN in Arizona. AFE occurs approximately 1 in 40,000 pregnancies, according to Cleveland Clinic. Unfortunately, he says, for a pregnant woman, he can’t do a little for nothing he can avoid this disease.

AFS are most often during cross-section C or immediately afterwards, although they can also occur with vaginal deliveries, dr. Marchand. More likely to occur in those who are older in age and those who have a tiling bedding. “For moms that have, there is a high (mastard) mortality rate,” he adds. Since the event generally occurs only after birth, baby is usually fine.

My doctors aren’t sure why I experienced the affairs during work. They told me I was incredibly happy, and that it was a miracle I survived.

A little later, my husband entered my recovery room with sweet Rigsby, and I managed to keep him for a second. The doctors explained that Rigsby went to the kindergarten as I went to Ice. It was hard to hear, but I was so grateful for that moment with him. Rigsby was perfect. I was happy to have a healthy baby and to be alive. My nurses said I was the happiest Ice patient who ever seen.

I was in a dark place after birth and feared

When the sisters moved me from ICU and in the Mother-Baby-baby unit two days later, I entered a dark place. I spent my fear that something else would go wrong. I cried all day, and I didn’t sleep.

Whenever my husband talked about the things we will do when we returned home I would tell him I’m not going home and I will die – and I believed it. View back, I definitely had a little traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The only thing I felt better that was breastfeeding Rigsby. I would really have a difficult breastfeeding my first child, so I easier to make it easier for this time to go so much better. As soon as Rigby skips, I would feel relief from those oppressive thoughts. I was overwhelmed with happiness.

Five days after Rigsby’s birth, my doctor told me to go home. I was terrified. I was hardly spoken by the whole drive home because I felt like I should still be in the hospital hooked on the monitors, where I felt safe. They sent me home with medication for anxiety, which helped about some anxiety.

My mom stayed with us a few days and helped the tasks around the house, so I could focus on healing and caring for Rigsby. Friends, family and people from our church brought meals and shared their heavy birth stories, which helped me feel less alone. I knew many pray for me.

A month later, I was ready to put it all behind, and I was in a much better place emotionally. Every day I wrote down three things I’ve been grateful to, and that helped me transfer my perspective.

The survivors of AFE is almost certainly related to the early diagnosis of the team and intervention.

– Amber Samuel, MD, OB-Gyn and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist

I still dealt with some concerns of physical health like hives and tightening in chest. My doctors prescribed my antihistamines and other drug stabilization medications. These symptoms can be associated with my affair, but doctors are not quite safe.

What to know about the affair

AFE happens when cells from the amnion fluid of the baby enter the pregnant mum blood and cause a dangerous reaction during work and delivery, says Amber Samuel, MD, Ob-Gyne and mother’s medicine specialist in Texas. It is important to remember that this state is extremely unusual and often unpredictable, but there are symptoms that you can watch out for:

If you experience these symptoms, tell your providers that they can be prepared for quickly act.

“The survivors of AFE is almost certainly related to the early diagnosis of the team and intervention,” says Dr. Samuel. Service providers are trained to treat the condition by stopping bleeding, restarting the heart and giving more oxygen of the lungs.

Fortunately, even though I once experienced AFE, “incredibly unlikely that AFE will not appear.” In subsequent pregnancy), “says Dr. Samuel.

I would like to have another child at some point and recently visited a doctor for mothers who would learn about all the risks associated with another baby. My doctors are aligned with dr. Samuel: She doesn’t care at all.

I feel sure I have a big care to care around me and I know I’ll get pregnant again, he’s closely monitoring and caring. I will always be so grateful to be here after that experience.