“My first child was born 30 minutes after I entered the hospital.”
Lucky you. Just to put it in perspective my first was 23 hrs, and the second was 10 hrs which is quite a while to be going through that and it’s not out of the ordinary.
While there isn’t a time frame included in the article, the mom-to-be seems to have been going through it for > 30 min since the midwife could go be treated for the bite and then be back to finish her job. It also doesn’t say whether the mom was medicated, or other details about her care.
To me, jail seems to be rather extreme as the hazards of dealing with women having babies seems like a given. But I guess that when your’re in a socialized medicine environment, the care really isn’t about the patient, but rather attending to a piece of meat.
I didn’t say I wasn’t in labor, I should have included that info. I was in labor for about 18 hours. I just didn’t go to the hospital until the last minute and I never had any Lamaze or such classes.
I heard horror stories about labor from family and so I was waiting for things to get really, really bad not realizing I was at the worst part already.