
Hannah
Female
Age at interview: 36
Age at diagnosis: 34
Brief outline: Hannah had an emergency caesarean section with her first child, who was five. She needed an emergency c-section to deliver her second child. Complications, including a uterine rupture, lead to a haemorrhage and surgery. She spent several days in ITU and HDU before being reunited with her baby.
Background: Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
Audio & video
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
- Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
Very painful. Couldn’t sleep on one side. Couldn’t sleep on my back at all. Whenever I slept on my back it was excruciatingly painful, because things were being squished. A lot of pain, sort of bladder region, because obviously that was in the wrong place and getting completely squished. A lot of hip pain headaches as well. Just lots of things, that were sort of, you know, this isn’t really right, because I had a really easy pregnancy before, and this was very strange. And then when, going into the midwife’s and saying, “Well you know I think this is, there’s something not quite right here.” And they would write down ‘Hannah feels uncomfortable’ [laughs]. Yes, because they don’t… you’ve got no way of telling them look I’m normally quite good at coping with this sort of thing because they don’t actually know you.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
- Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
- Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
- Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
- Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
- Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
- Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
- Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
- Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
- Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
- Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
- Hannah, a 34 year old editor, is married with two children. White British.
Yes, I suppose, I just, I just don’t know. We weren’t really given any information, just sort of you go away and you think. We weren’t, I suppose we weren’t told what would happen if, what they expected, how long that would take to recover from and what any ongoing issues would be. Or yes, and how to sleep. Just practical stuff, like how to sleep and where it should be… Because it’s quite hard to sleep. The internal one’s not that bad actually, but the external one was like a big tube that comes out so it sort of gets in the way of dressing and it’s just everywhere and you just think, oh my God. I mean how has this happened, but suddenly, I went in to have a baby and I’ve come out really quite medically…. I don’t know, it’s a very odd thing. Obviously it must be much worse for people who’ve had the uterus removed and things, but you just don’t expect it.