Woman Pressured to Get C-Section Shares Ordeal While Giving Birth

A heavily pregnant Katrina had to go to Brisbane to give birth in Australia. Doctors told her to have a caesarian section. Otherwise, she would kill her baby and come out with cerebral palsy. The mom of three asserts that going to Brisbane is not necessary, as her baby is fine, and she wanted to give birth naturally. However, the doctors ordered her to go to Brisbane to give birth.

The advice came after three days of consultation at Mackay Hospital. The doctor told her she could not give birth naturally and had to be flown to Brisbane to give birth as she was 42 weeks pregnant and the baby was too big, Kidspot reports.

Wanting a natural birth

Katrina was looking forward to giving birth in a birthing center, where she had her third child with the same midwife. However, at 42 weeks, she was told she would need to give birth in a hospital.

She claimed that there was a push for "intervention and control" despite what she wanted was a normal birth.

When the doctors asked her to have CTG monitoring and fetal wellbeing ultrasound, she thought everything would be fine.

The ultrasounds said that her baby looked big, but Katrina remained unperturbed as she knew they were "notoriously inaccurate later in pregnancy."

Since she was in her 42nd week, the doctors began pressuring her to deliver the baby.

She revealed that they said that not giving birth at this time would kill her baby. They also told her husband that her baby would come out with cerebral palsy. They also told her they would have a stillborn, and if they did not induce her birth, the baby would aspirate and could swallow the meconium.

When she finally agreed to be induced, the registrar told her that they did not have a full staff, so the hospital could not do it. As she was desperate to give birth naturally, she was transferred to Royal Brisbane Hospital.

They went home that night and packed for another hospital.

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Hospital finds decision to send her to Royal Brisbane ridiculous 

The staff and doctors at Royal Brisbane Hospital thought it was ridiculous that they had to send her to their hospital. Her water broke at 8 a.m., and then she went into labor naturally. She delivered a healthy baby girl more than six hours later, weighing 4.5 kg, on May 24, 2021.

Katrina said the experience made her feel totally down. She felt like she had lost her trust in herself. She said she was coping and doubting herself.

She quit her job at the hospital because having to go down to the labor ward scares her.

One of the doctors at the Mackay hospital involved in Katrina's case has been suspended and has already resigned following an investigation into the hospital's Obstetrics and Gynaecology Service, in which Katrina was involved. 

According to a statement released, Mackay Hospital gave Katrina their 100 percent support and said that her transfer to Brisbane was unnecessary.

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