A Vacuum Delivery: How One Birth Rewrote Every Birth After

For The Hayters: The Stories We Survive · Jul 12, 2026 · 55m

TW: birth trauma, medical procedures performed without consent, infant medical emergency, NICU.

At 21, Angelina walked into her first birth expecting it to look like the movies. What she got was a day and a half of labor, decisions made about her body without her, and a newborn daughter rushed to a hospital 45 minutes away. This is the story of what nobody told her, and how she made sure it never happened to her again.

Interview, narration, and editing by Becky Hayter, with post-production, scripting, and sound design by Emily Nadal.

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