article_snippet: For the next two days, at three-hour intervals, I kept trying.
article_snippet: I panicked; it had taken me a day to express that.
article_snippet: The next day, when I woke from an afternoon sleep I was dizzy and delirious.
article_snippet: Each time I found waiting rooms packed with worried women and fraught staff.
article_snippet: Yet no one acknowledges the physical and mental strain you are under.
article_snippet: If you do, the consensus is that you did not try hard enough.