When Emily Peters grabs her laptop and scrolls through her life, she can’t help but smile when she finds photos of herself six years ago.
“I was one of those really annoying people that really like being pregnant,” said Peters with a laugh. “I loved it, I loved being huge, and taking up tons of space, and having this sidekick with me.”
On August 2nd, 2016, she gave birth to a perfect eight-pound girl named Lucy. But the joy quickly turned into something dark.
“Everything was going super smoothly until it wasn’t, and everything came crashing down,” said Peters. “And then I blacked out, and that is the last thing I remember.”
Peters was bleeding to death. She had suffered an arterial bleed during delivery, and was in a full-on DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation). During the next six hours, doctors and staff had to give her 32 units of blood, equal to all the blood in her body nine times over.
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