My baby had a SECRET TWIN
WOMAN'S OWN|May 18, 2020
Sadie Brittle, 36, was trying to come to terms with the most painful of heartbreaks
EMMA ROSSITER/CHARLOTTE NISBET
My baby had a SECRET TWIN

As I snipped away at my client’s hair, I tried to shake the overwhelming feeling of exhaustion that had suddenly washed over me.

‘I don’t feel great,’ I told a colleague as I lowered myself onto a chair.

As she ran to fetch me a glass of water, I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. All the colour had drained from my cheeks. I looked and felt terrible.

It was April 2016 and that morning, I’d been to the hospital with my husband, Gary, 37, for my first midwife appointment after discovering I was pregnant four weeks earlier. We were delighted, and our three-year-old daughter Summer was so excited when we told her she was going to be a big sister. After the appointment, I’d felt a little funny as we’d headed home, but assumed it was just the flu I’d been fighting for the past few weeks.

Emergency surgery

Only, now, I was seriously having to fight the urge to fall asleep, and I was worried. It couldn’t be anything to do with the baby, could it?

As I started drifting in and out of consciousness, someone must have called Gary because I soon heard his voice beside me. ‘I’m calling an ambulance,’ he said, his panic very clear. I just about remember a paramedic talking to me, and Gary holding my hand, but otherwise it’s all blurry. The next time I came to, I was on the ward at Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham.

I’d had a scan and doctors were now saying I needed emergency surgery tostop me bleeding internally, which was putting both me and my baby in danger. It was so confusing – only that morning, the midwife had told me everything was fine. Before I knew what was happening, I was taken down to theatre. Three and half hours later, I was back on the ward with my surgeon explaining all.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة May 18, 2020 من WOMAN'S OWN.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة May 18, 2020 من WOMAN'S OWN.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.