When Birthdays Bring Fear: Birth Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) [HuffingtonPost.com]

Samantha Sangenito 1/21/164:00 AM

The thump of the blades cut the humid July air. EMTs heaved me from the helicopter to the gurney and the wind whipped my hair in knots. The hospital doors slammed shut behind us.

Ceiling lights whizzed by and I decided to wrap my legs around the bed rails as tight as I could. I was hoping that would keep the baby from being born -- nothing the doctors tried had worked so far. I did not want to meet my baby yet because I did not want to watch it die.

[For more of this story, written by Andrea Mullenmeister, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-ptsd_b_8973040.html]

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