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🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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*Content warning: infant loss, pregnancy trauma, pregnancy loss, medical trauma, medical neglect.
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0:00.0 | Great, I'm safe with these people. |
0:06.4 | They're professionals. |
0:07.5 | If anything was to go wrong, they would recognize it as it was happening or before it was happening. |
0:14.1 | I believe my body will do what it's supposed to do. |
0:18.8 | That's why I chose midwifery over the route of choosing an OBGYN doctor. |
0:26.6 | I thought the birth center would be a happy medium between the hospital setting and the home birth setting. |
0:33.6 | We assumed that these people were professionals that were being regulated by the state of Texas. |
0:40.3 | They claimed to be upheld to these really high standards of care. |
0:45.3 | I did a lot of research and found a birth center in Dallas. |
0:52.3 | Little did we know it would turn out to be a total nightmare. |
0:57.3 | I had spots in my vision. Jennifer told me that, oh, that's nothing to be worried about. |
1:04.3 | It's not in my chart, but I was leaking maconium all night. I said, is it illegal? |
1:11.6 | And they nodded, like, yeah, it's illegal. |
1:16.6 | Then when I was taking the screenshots, that's when I realized, oh my gosh, they changed something. |
1:22.6 | To have a student taking care of someone without their preceptor there, to me, is below the standard of care. |
1:32.5 | That is putting your client at a huge risk. |
1:37.5 | And this is when all hell breaks loose. |
1:40.8 | This is a life-threatening emergency. |
1:43.6 | If we don't deliver this baby in the next few minutes, |
1:46.4 | you are risking serious, serious harm in death. |
1:52.7 | Yes, the death was a homicide, but no, the midwife was not prosecuted in any way. |
1:58.8 | And as far as I know, continues to practice |
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