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Blu Danny’s tears, but when he takes in the scene, he whips around so the child can’t see It’s not easy to estimate the amount of blood when it’s spread all over the place, but froeries I’ve assisted with, it looks like a couple of pints The huht to ten If she loses o into shock
I put my hand on her uterus It’s rock hard but there’s a baby inside, so old Mrs Potts’s he and let’s find out what’s going on Can you take her blood pressure?" I fly downstairs, grabthe cuff and stethoscope across the bed
"Patience, listen to inal exaton" I’m surprised to hear myself speak with such authority I almost sound like a midwife
"Oh, Becky The pain It’s here all the tioing to rip apart"
"I know, Patience" I suck in a big breath and blow out through my lips "I know But breathe Breathe like this InOutInOut" I demonstrate and she copies while I sit down on a corner of the wet bed, ith Patience’s life fluid, and pullhands
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"Blood pressure, seventy-six over fifty Pulse one twenty," Daniel spits out He’s quit crying and wipes his face and nose with a clean corner of the sheet
I slide ina and another blossoain, but without Danny Sootten the child quieted and back in bed, probably gave hi I know I a off," Patience whispers "I’ve already lost two babies this way" Another twisting pain co on her brow The contractions are two minutes apart
"Only four centiroup
"Shit," says Daniel "I was hoping for eight or ten"
"Check our baby Check the heartbeat" That’s Patience She’s weak but still with us, the infant her chief concern
"Do you think we can ton?" Daniel turns todo, but I could put chains on"
I take Dr Blum’s stethoscope, place the silver headpiece over my brow, and lean down to listen to the fetal heart rate At first I hear nothing and hold up my hand to quiet the room Then from underneath Patience’s rapid pulse, I catch a slower tick tick and tap the air with er to show thehty," he announces "Too slow?" Patience starts crying again
"Oh, save my baby, Becky I’ll push now! I can push! I don’t care if my cervix rips" She sits up in bed and another half cup of blood spurts out of her