“Moms used to say, ‘Oh, I would die to have a baby.’ Now that’s becoming the actual literal truth. Women are dying to have a baby," said Shawn Thierry of Houston, Texas, who had a dangerous reaction to her epidural anesthesia. #1of50Kpic.twitter.com/jIcT7ox7Y8
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“It’s frustrating to me that even at this large, very well-known hospital, people were missing things.” —Rachel Yencha, Lakewood, Ohio http://maternal.usatoday.com pic.twitter.com/hfQwUjCyDQ
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“I showed up to the hospital at 30 weeks pregnant, bleeding to death.” —Hali Hanson, Iowa City, Iowapic.twitter.com/G1nMWgh7PT
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“My very first push, something was wrong, and I knew it and I said it,” said Dimitra Mihalopoulos of Iowa City, Iowa, who developed high blood pressure after giving birth and was diagnosed with heart failure.pic.twitter.com/q3wlsT863A
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“I know it was going to be painful, but I didn’t know that it would be the way it went,” said Diana Saddler of Orlando, Florida, who experienced excessive bleeding while giving birth.pic.twitter.com/Rq7Q3V8zCB
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“His face changes and he says, ‘Oh my gosh, this is your uterus,’ and that’s when everything went crazy," said Alicia Glascock of Riverdale, Utah, who lost roughly five liters of blood after giving birth to her daughter.pic.twitter.com/MSWIqJggJm
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“It was very hard to find that doctor that cared about both of us.” —Debbie Carrington, Powhatan, Virginiapic.twitter.com/tzvgjRcCiZ
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“Here I am, you know, giving birth to this miracle daughter and a week later I’m almost pronounced dead.” —Stephanie Manoian, Plantsville, Connecticutpic.twitter.com/gfAwz0fSMn
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Facing death, many wrote goodbye letters. “You’re risking your life, the life of your child, your husband raising the rest of your children alone. It really was a miracle. There was no reason I should have made it through all of that.” —Joyce Foley, Chardon, Ohiopic.twitter.com/HJWawYHewK
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“I told her, ‘I have two little girls that I have to raise. I need you to do everything you can to save me,'” —Donielle Bell of Marietta, Georgia, who started hemorrhaging after giving birth.pic.twitter.com/Tz2bxsMTn0
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“Having the right hospital is life and death.” —Alana Alvarez, Mililani, Hawaii, a placenta accreta survivor. Prior C-sections raise the risk of placenta accretapic.twitter.com/QsiREs8jMU
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“I wish I would have known having more than one C-section, the risk just goes up so high after each one. I mean, basically, it said the chances of surviving something like that were slim-to-none.” —Melissa Siedlecki, Medina, Ohiopic.twitter.com/Slzaoj5JNO
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“Take a good hard look at your hospital and say, 'If something were to go wrong, even if nothing ever has, do they have a big blood bank?'" Brianna Evans of Spanish Fork, Utah, who had placenta accreta, which has a death rate as high as 7%pic.twitter.com/Fabe5UZmwW
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“Something like this, I can’t even imagine it happened to me because I was really healthy," said Carrie Hu of Torrance, California, who suffered strokes after deliverypic.twitter.com/moI1Uw65yB
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“She said, ‘You’re gonna die,’ and I was like, ‘Geez, thanks.’ That’s not what you want to hear when you’re sitting in a hospital waiting to have your child.” —Marianne Royster, Pace, Floridapic.twitter.com/FbVTZF0rtX
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“People would say, ‘Oh, he just wanted to come into the world early.’ And I’m like, ‘No, he didn’t. It was my body that failed him,’” said Lynsey Davis of Spring, Texas, who said she had HELLP Syndromepic.twitter.com/oXYBPnl4kd
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“If you survive labor, it can’t come back and get you five days later. It wasn’t part of the rules," said Emily McLaughlin of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who suffered a brain hemorrhage after giving birth to her daughterpic.twitter.com/GVK2LEF8W4
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"I was scared to go back to sleep. I was afraid that, you know, I never will wake up and see my baby or be there for my family" —Haelie Cobb, Houston, Texaspic.twitter.com/YqrIwbwWK4
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“They were explaining to the therapist that I had died once. They got me back. Then I died again, and they got me back. And that was a total shock to me because I had no idea that that actually happened to me” —ZaKiya Bell-Rogers, Asheville, North Carolinapic.twitter.com/2yPpKHeYDU
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Many women carry an emotional toll that is difficult to shake. “I still suffer from depression because of it. I still sometimes have nightmares that I wake up in the ICU," said Lesley Mayfield of Orville, Ohiopic.twitter.com/Xs73COeo62
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