S23 Ep4: Hell House
Something Was Wrong
Broken Cycle Media
4.1 • 24.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
*Content warning: birth trauma, medical trauma, medical neglect, death, mature and stressful themes.
*Free + Confidential Resources + Safety Tips: somethingwaswrong.com/resources
*Sources:
American College of Nurse Midwives
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
CDC, Health E-Stats, Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2023
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2023/Estat-maternal-mortality.pdf
CDC, Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2023
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2023/maternal-mortality-rates-2023
CDC, Working Together to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality
https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/features/maternal-mortality.html
Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice: https://blackmaternalhealth.tufts.edu/
Comparative Analysis of Therapeutic Showers and Bathtubs for Pain Management and Labor Outcomes—A Retrospective Cohort Study
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/
Fetal Heart Monitoring
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/fetal-heart-monitoring
Fundal Height
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/22294-fundal-height
Health Equity Among Black Women in the United States
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8020496/
Insights into the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis: An International Comparison
March of Dimes
https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/about-us
Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC)
Monitoring Baby’s Heart Rate During Labor
https://familydoctor.org/monitoring-babys-heart-rate-labor/
Mucus Plug
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/21606-mucus-plug
Nasal Cannula
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/25187-nasal-cannula
National Midwifery Institute
https://www.nationalmidwiferyinstitute.com/midwifery
CDC, National Vital Statistics Reports
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-05.pdf
North American Registry of Midwives (NARM)
State investigating Dallas birth center and midwives, following multiple complaints from patients
Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR)
Water breaking: Understand this sign of labor
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/labor-and-delivery/in-depth/water-breaking/art-20044142
Zucker School of Medicine, Amos Grunebaum, MD
https://faculty.medicine.hofstra.edu/13732-amos-grunebaum/publications
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Something Was Wrong is intended for mature audiences. |
| 0:03.8 | This season contains discussions of medical negligence, birth trauma, and infant loss, |
| 0:10.2 | which may be upsetting for some listeners. |
| 0:13.1 | For a full content warning, sources, and resources, |
| 0:17.0 | please visit the episode notes. |
| 0:19.9 | Opinions shared by the guests of the show are their own, and do not necessarily represent |
| 0:24.7 | the views of myself, broken cycle media, and wondering. |
| 0:29.1 | The podcast in any linked materials should not be misconstrued as a substitution for legal |
| 0:34.8 | or medical advice. |
| 0:37.0 | Origins' birth and wellness owners and midwives, |
| 0:40.1 | Caitlin Wages and Gina Thompson, |
| 0:42.6 | have not responded to our requests for comment. |
| 0:46.2 | Additionally, midwives Jennifer Crawford and Elizabeth Fuwell |
| 0:50.3 | have also not returned our request for comment. |
| 0:54.0 | This season is dedicated with love to Malik. have also not returned our request for comment. |
| 0:57.8 | This season is dedicated with love to Malik. |
| 1:09.0 | You don't know me, you don't know me well, my own. you don't know anybody |
| 1:16.6 | until you talk to someone My name. My name is Amanda, and I had my son. |
| 1:41.3 | And I had my son, July 11th of 2023. He is now 15 months old. Me and my husband had done a lot of |
| 1:52.4 | research about how we wanted our pregnancy and labor to look. I didn't necessarily have an OB that I loved. I had a nurse practitioner |
| 2:03.3 | that I had seen several times and I absolutely loved her, but I knew that she wouldn't be the one |
| 2:07.5 | to deliver my baby. I did a lot of research and built my case. We had talked a lot about it. |
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