In late November, Cecily Dantum and her husband Paul were ready to welcome the arrival of their second child.
Her waters hadn’t broken yet, so their midwife at Vanderbilt University Medical Center used an amniotic hook to rupture the amniotic sac, as is standard procedure in some labours.
“She went in and she was like, ‘This is a tough water bag. Oh my god, this is so tough,’ and she was just jamming it in there,” Nashville mum Cecily told WKRN-TV.
Only it wasn’t the amniotic sac the midwife was clawing.
It was the unborn baby’s head.
The couple claim the midwife spent "five to 10 minutes" using the hook to dig and scrape what she thought was a water bag, at the time saying "it was the hardest water bag she'd ever felt".
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Yikes, that is a pretty traumatic birth injury, poor baby, lucky she came through it so well. A disappointing response from the hospital
"Parents recall the ghastly experience of their midwife clawing their unborn baby’s head."
Wow. Was the midwife a crow? Such a dramatic headline.
Considering the situation, I think it was an entirely accurate headline.