EXCLUSIVE I survived a C-section with no anesthetic - it was agony and I felt the surgeon cut through layers of my muscle READ MORE: Getting an epidural could reduce risk of birth complications By Ruth Walker For Dailymail.Com Published: 14:11 EDT, 8 June 2024 | Updated: 14:11 EDT, 8 June 2024 e-mail View comments Rachel Somerstein had been in labor for nearly 24 hours when someone held a piece of paper up for her to sign. It was after midnight, in a small hospital in upstate New York, and as her first birth was headed towards an unplanned Cesarean section, she was in no state to read fine print.
Her labor had already gotten off to a complicated start - the anesthesiologist had had to redo her epidural three times. Now, as her daughter's heart rate was dropping, she believed her worst fears were about to be realized. In her book, Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section , she recalls: 'I was certain that this left turn into unknown territory meant that.
.. I would die, that my baby would die .
' The C-section is the world’s most common surgery. In the US it makes up one-in-three births As Rachel Somerstein recovered, she found she was far from alone among moms who had experienced trauma during birth Her husband later told her the general feeling in the operating room was that she was hysterical. The C-section is, after all, the world’s most common surgery.
In the US they make up one-in-three births. What did she have to worry about? 'I have a flash of memor.
