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Though one might assume that a fast birth means a quick and complication-free experience, the reality can be quite different. The recent experience of a 33-year-old British pop singer demonstrated how birth complications can arise even amidst seemingly ideal birth conditions. The mother was about to give birth to her fifth child and everything seemed to be going according to plan. Once she asked for an epidural, things began to go awry. “It’s like I passed out but I never passed out. I could hear everyone else talking, it was really bizarre. I wish I hadn’t had the epidural,” said the mother. “They put her on my chest and something didn’t feel right.” The baby was not breathing. The birth occurred too fast for the baby to adjust to the outside world. The doctors “think she came out so fast [that] she reverted and went into delayed shock, and reverted…
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