While pregnant with her first child, a woman had an incredible and
unforgettable experience. She went for a routine checkup in her final
weeks of pregnancy, only to find out she needed an emergency C-section.
But the real surprise came after the doctor looked inside her uterus.
In January 2023, Tamara McPhedrin turned to TikTok to share a
shocking account with the world in a two-part video series. She narrated
her most unusual experience during her first pregnancy, which became
etched in her mind forever.
Taking a walk down memory lane, McPhedrin said she was barely 17 at
the time. Owing to her motherly instinct, she said something was wrong.
But when she consulted the doctors, they dismissed all her worries,
given her young age.
McPhedrin started her eye-opening story with a short opening video
inlay that read, “When the surgeon opened me up during an emergency
C-section at 31 weeks, to find an empty uterus.” Since it was posted,
the video had become a viral sensation, garnering millions of views.
As of April 3rd, 2023, it has garnered 6 million views and over
211,000 reactions. In response to netizens’ popular demand for more
details, McPhedrin shared two longer clips to explain what she lived
through. In the first part, she began by saying that although she hadn’t
yet reached her due date, she knew she was pregnant, adding, “We’d seen
the baby in there, so it was there, just not in the place it should
have been.” The then 17-year-old McPhedrin went for her first ultrasound
at 14 weeks. Knowing something wasn’t right, she discussed her concerns
and worries with medical staff.
But McPhedrin noted that nobody listened to her because she was only a
teenager. Had they listened to her then, McPhedrin said she wouldn’t
have lived what she did later on. Fast forward to 20 weeks, the woman
experienced another health complication. She began bleeding profusely
and was in excruciating pain. But even then, she was taken aback when
the doctors deemed it normal and told her not to worry.
Eventually, McPhedrin went for another ultrasound due to her
unusually tiny baby bump, and the medical team discovered she had no
amniotic fluid. Moreover, the doctors raised concerns regarding
placental and baby growth. When she reached 31 weeks, McPhedrin said she
was advised complete bed rest, going to little fetal movement. Then she
had another scan where the medical staff couldn’t find her baby’s
heartbeat. While they located the heartbeat later, it was quite low, and
the baby appeared to be in distress.
McPhedrin recalls being taken to the labor ward where doctors decided
to perform an emergency C-section. During the procedure, McPhedrin
received the biggest shock of her life. The doctors told her and her
partner that her uterus was empty, with only a bag of amniotic fluid. At
that moment, the surgeon looked perplexed and asked McPhedrin, “Where
is the baby?” In part two of her video series, McPhedrin expressed that
she was shocked and clueless and couldn’t believe the surgeon.
She was lost for words and couldn’t comprehend the doctors, given
that it was their job to know where the baby was. To locate the child,
the medical team made a wider incision from one end of McPhedrin’s hip
to the other.
It was then that they discovered an extra little cavity where her
cervix was absent, but an ovary and a fallopian tube were very much
present, and the baby was there. Even more mind-boggling was the cavity
was cut off from her uterus. In scientific terminology, McPhedrin had a
unicornuate uterus.
Fortunately, she had a safe delivery, and neither she nor her baby
had any health scares. Since then, the TikTok mom has welcomed twins and
another boy who were all delivered before their due dates.
As of April 2023, she’s expecting another child in hopes to carry her
fifth baby to full term. Before concluding her story, McPhedrin advised
her followers not to ignore any signs and regularly see the doctor if
they feel something isn’t right in their pregnancy. What do you think
about this mother’s shocking birth experience?
Have you ever heard of something similar happening before?
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