When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing.
I gave up before birth.
The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.
The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.
... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.
I was born dead. Yeah, the umbilical cord was like, floppy baby, the whole thing. Yeah, it was bad.
I did sit on Jonathan's head in the womb for nine months.
I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.
With River's birth, nothing went according to plan. My water broke three weeks early, and after 12 hours of labor and Pitocin, I was in incredible pain and still only one-centimeter dilated.
An emergency on the labour ward needs to be addressed within minutes or else lifelong disability or even death can follow for the baby or mother.
