Delivering Hattie... a personal experience.
Following a textbook pregnancy and subsequent spontaneous labour at home, I arrived at hospital awaiting a review of my cervical progress; but this became the least of my thoughts as, following routine auscultation of the fetal heart, no sound was audible. The following article outlines my own personal experiences of a term stillbirth as both a midwife and a mother.
Consultant Unit, Royal Bolton Hospital, Lancashire.
Sarah
S
Jennings
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