The terrible toll of mixing religion and medicine in Ireland

[madmom]

3. This truly makes me wonder...

For my first child I had a difficult labor. I started labor on Sunday afternoon, was sent home because it was "just mild". Monday evening went back with strong contractions. This time they kept me.

Tuesday at noon I still had not given birth and having strong contractions.
They decided to take an xray to see what was wrong.
The nurse told me "that what ever it was, it had a lot of dark curly hair."

The xrays showed a large baby. It still wasn't until after 10:00 P.M. Tuesday that the doc decided to do a c section, this after my husband and father decided to call in another doctor. He knew at noon on Tuesday how big the baby was and did nothing.

After everything was said and done, the nurse (who was an angle) told me if I would have had to have him naturally one or both of us would have died.

BTW.... he was 11 1/2 pounds and 24 inches long at birth. Head diameter was 19".