S1, EP5: Claire's birth story - Induction, Ventouse delivery, Caesarean births and a post birth haemorrhage with a hysterectomy.

Trigger Warning: Life saving emergency hysterectomy after birth and a haemorrhage.  Join us on Claire’s three birth journeys with her three boys. We explore two different hospitals and their care, caesarean births, induction with an assisted delivery and a life saving emergency surgery after her third baby was born.  This is an incredibly powerful and emotive journey for Claire and I am honoured to have heard her story.  The stats(NHS): “How often does it happen? Post-partum hysterectomies happen in 0.05-0.1% of all births (less than one out every 1000) and 0.5% of all caesarean births (one in 200 Caesarean births) At the RBH we do about four hysterectomies a year immediately after childbirth. Although the procedure is not common, with increased numbers of Caesarean births we are seeing the number of post-partum hysterectomies increase also as shown in the above statistics.” For more information on a hysterectomy after birth this is a good document to have a read:   https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/media/uxuajfak/hysterectomy-post-partum.pdf