Nikki, I didn't feel anything either. I was still on the bed and snuggling DD and giving her a BF and then they started looking worried and saying, "umm we're just going to give your belly a bit of a rub because the placenta isn't coming out' and they did that and tugged on the cord a bit and got me to keep feeding DD, thinking that it would help release the placenta and then I started bleeding and it was action stations. I still felt fine for a bit but by the time they wheeled me down the hall to theatre I was feeling very woozy and sleepy and once in there I had to sign the consent form and I could hardly see it because my vision was all blurry. So I went downhill pretty quickly and I think that it would have been 20 minutes tops from the time it started to the time I got into theatre because it was a small hospital they had to get all the theatre staff there and the other Dr who was the anaesthetist was at home so he had to come in. It could have been less time, I'm really vague on the finer details of it all but it wouldn't have been any longer than that.

When I was in after having DD1, there was a young girl who had her first baby, she was only 17 and her birth was textbook - spontaneous labour, only lasted about 5 hours and peri was intact. The next night though she started passing clots and they had to take her to theatre to get them all out so her haemorrage was like yours and it was completely unexpected and her only sign was needing to wee but couldn't.