Kayleigh's AFE Survival Birth Story

Mommy Labor Nurse

Liesel Teen

Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Kayleigh Summers joined me to share the story of her son's birth. Kayleigh went in for what she anticipated to be a routine induction to meet her son, only to suffer an incredibly rare complication known as an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) right as she was beginning to push him out.

Amniotic fluid embolism happens in approximately 1 in 100,000 births. The infant survival rate is only about 70%, and the maternal survival rate is somewhere between 30-50%. Basically everyone's worst nightmare!

Luckily Kayleigh is here to tell her story today of being an AFE survivor, and I'm honored I had the opportunity to sit down with her and share it with you guys.

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0:00.0	So a chaplain and a social worker came and got my husband
0:03.8	from the room that my mom and dad were not in with him.
0:06.8	And they walked him down this long hallway
0:08.6	and he was certain that they were taking him
0:10.9	to tell me that I had died.
0:12.5	Yeah.
0:13.3	And they walked him into this tiny closet
0:14.6	and I think it was because it was right next to the OR
0:16.5	and my OB came in and like, with blood all over her
0:19.3	and was like, your baby is fine.
0:21.4	He's doing well.
0:22.3	Kaley is not.
0:23.2	She had any other fluid embolism.
0:25.1	We're doing everything we can to try to save her life.
0:28.7	You're listening to the Mommy Laburner's podcast,
0:39.7	where you'll gain the knowledge and confidence
0:41.7	you need to erase the unknowns of pregnancy and birth
0:44.8	and rock the newborn days like a boss.
0:47.9	My name is Liesel Tein.
0:49.4	I'm a fellow mom, labor and deliver nurse, Andrew Host.
0:53.2	Each week on this podcast, you'll hear a mix of birth stories,
0:56.4	expert interviews, and other fun, pregnancy
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