Birth Complications

A birth is no ordinary event — it is a crossing between two worlds, a moment in which a new life enters the space you alone have inhabited until now. And sometimes this crossing does not unfold the way it is described. The pain grows too large. The child is positioned differently than it should be — breech, transverse, stuck. The hours drag on, something stalls, something resists, something struggles. Doctors make quick decisions. Machines beep. Hands reach in. What was meant to be the most intimate event of your life becomes a crisis.