Whilst I was giving birth to our daughter, dangerous complications started happening. My husband who is Hungarian, asked the midwives and doctors if they were going to do an ultrasound to see what was happening. This is a common and vital part of childbirth in Hungary. He was told they don’t do ultrasounds at this stage.

After hours of struggling, exhaustion and the baby and I becoming very distressed. Our baby girl arrived. She was in shock, and although breathing, she was not crying and needed intervention. The umbilical cord was very short and had snapped off inside me. The midwife delivering her was pushing down on my stomach to try and deliver the placenta, like she was giving me CPR. Seconds later my uterus inverted, and was visible outside of my body. Like a popped balloon. A uterine inversion. I haemorrhaged very badly. It was like someone had tipped a bucket of blood over. I was rushed down to theatre for a life saving operation and blood transfusions. They placed a Bakri balloon inside me filled with fluid, to allow the blood vessels to reconnect and in time rebuild my uterus. 6 hours later, I woke up in high dependency care and we remained there for a week.

Uterine inversions are one of the most serious birth complications that can occur. It happens approximately 1 in 6,000 births. 

If I had an ultrasound when I was in established labour, the midwives would of seen the position and the length of the umbilical cord and it could of been a very different outcome. An emergency Caesarean is what I needed. 
 
Babies are born frequently with cords wrapped around their neck, potentially if not already, paralysing them before entering the our world. A quick scan would show all this and stop it before  going any further with natural delivery.

We are wanting a change for our system. A simple and quick, but life saving change for our future babies and families.

We have all the resources already, but yet not using them. 

Ultrasound our babies before delivery.