Near death experiences? I don't know if I ever had a near death experience, but I did have a moment, when I had my first son in an emergency cesarean, when I sure felt as if the situation might have gone badly.
Me and my husband had a nice bag packed for the hospital. It even had a baseball hat with "Coach" written on it for him.
Well, I woke up and my water broke and everything was normal. I called the doctor and he asked if the contractions had started yet, but they hadn't so he told me to take a shower because I wouldn't get one for a long time. And so I did and everything was normal. It was only 4am or so by then.
So we went back to sleep and woke up a little later and went to the hospital. The nurse from the classes came and you know how everyone gets excited. The doctor came in, and oh, I liked that doctor. A young guy. So we were a smokin' and a jokin' and everything seemed alright, but then the doctor reached down with his stethoscope to listen to the baby's heartbeat and in a small moment everything stopped. He said that he could barely hear the baby's heartbeat and that we needed to do an emergency c-section.
And despite the fact that I knew I was in good hands, it dawned on me, as we were being wheeled into surgery that both of us might not make it. But everything went well in the end and it turned out that my son just had a naturally slow heartbeat and now he's as healthy as ever.
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