Chloe: First Birth, Positive Emergency C-Section After Water Birth 48 Hour Labour and Succenturiate Placenta

British Birthing Stories · May 5, 2026 · 58m

She pushed for five hours. Her baby kept getting stuck. And when she finally made the call for a C section, the medical team tried to talk her out of it before admitting it was probably the right idea all along.

Chloe is a veterinary neurologist from West Berkshire and a first time mum who went into birth as prepared as anyone could be. Hypnobirthing, research, a birth pool, a TENS machine, and a very clear birth plan. What followed was 48 hours of labour, a cervical lip that nobody had spotted, and a pushing stage that lasted five hours before things came to a halt. Chloe trusted her gut…