A woman wakes up six days after undergoing an emergency c-section in complete horror after discovering she no longer had legs. The decision devastated the mother-of-8, who was left to figure out how to raise her children while being bound on a wheelchair.
When you’re at a hospital to give birth, many different things cross your mind about the whole experience. You start to ask questions about how you and your little one will cope, and if you’re not a first time mom, you may even question how different this birthing experience would be than the previous one.
These are normal reactions to such a life-changing moment. For c-section moms, you’re about to undergo a major surgery to birth your new bundle of joy, and it’s only normal that you have a lot of thoughts running through your mind as you go through it.
The Seasoned Mom Had Several Birthing Experiences
For one woman, she was completely relaxed when she traveled to the hospital at 36 weeks for an emergency c-section. As a mother of 7, she already knew what to expect, and how the whole process would play out.
Ella Clarke had her first child at 18. It was an unpleasant birthing experience, and what she had gone through made her opt to undergo c-sections in her succeeding pregnancies. By the time she was about to give birth to her 8th, she already considered herself a “pro.”
However, unlike her previous elective c-sections, the seventh one was for medical reasons. She was diagnosed with placenta previa, a condition where the placenta partially covers the cervix, which meant a c-section was imminent…CONTINUE READING