article_snippet: A first-time mother who was sent home  by doctors for an entire week because they didn't believe her waters had broken suffered infections and had to be placed on life support for three days following the horror birth.
article_snippet: I woke up at 39 weeks to a pool of water in the bed.
article_snippet: I went back to sleep thinking it was her waters breaking.
article_snippet: I really should have trusted my instincts because I went to my midwife appointment at 40 weeks and Brittany Spriggs told me I was a centimetre dilated.'
article_snippet: They went in to break her waters but They’d already broken at 39 weeks...
article_snippet: the surgeon came out seven or eight hours later saying I was on life support and our daughter was in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit).
article_snippet: For the whole nine months I was imagining our daughter being born, but both My husband
article_snippet: Ms Spriggs says doctors told Ms Spriggs the birthing horror was an isolated case and the birthing horror had never happened in the years doctors had been practising. '
article_snippet: I'd already been in labour for 24 hours when the nurse told me to lay down so Janie Lerch could break her waters.