Sometimes babies do not want to leave their mother's wombs. William Soutter was one of those. In 2009, Rebecca Soutter was two weeks over due with William when a doctor at Bacchus Marsh hospital induced her labour. But nearly 20 hours later, her boy was still stuck. A doctor used a vacuum to try to pull him down, but it didn't work so the doctor started talking about forceps. "It didn't feel right so I requested a caesarean ... My mother was there. She's a nurse and she agreed I should have a caesarean and so did the midwife. But the doctor persisted," she said. Advertisement "When he came out the forceps were so close to his eyes that he had a...
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