I had my son, Charlie, bang on his due date of the 3rd of January 2021, but after a normal delivery I failed to deliver the placenta. When the placenta did arrive, a 5cm piece had torn off and remained in my womb and it caused a major haemorrhage. I lost three litres of blood from the placenta issue, which was classed as “catastrophic”. Once I had been stabilised, and had a uterine balloon inserted to help prevent a further bleed, I had a uterine inversion where my uterus spontaneously turned inside out and I lost a further two litres of blood.
After the first blood loss my veins collapsed and my cannula failed, so they couldn’t get any blood in me. They were finding it impossible to re-cannulate me but eventually an amazing intensive care unit surgeon managed to put a central line in my neck to get the blood in. From then I kept having to have more top ups. I understand I received ten bags of red cells and two bags of platelets overall.
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