Its a bit of a story. I had her at change over. It had been 4 and a half hours since anyone had come to check on me and they had ruled my labour stalled at the last check. For change over, they were all outside "discussing what to do with me" as the ob so casually said when he came in to watch her delivery in disbelief. Anyway - I buzzed them when I felt the head on its way out and the middies I had had all night came in to finish the birthing. They the did rush through the third stage using cord traction to get the placenta out. Then they vanished again.

Over an hour and a half later, my older sister who was an AIN at the time went searching for help for me because she knew there was something seriously wrong. When they got in the bluey weighed for something like 2.8l and that was before they went in after the clots and my bp was something like 50/30. I figured they wouldnt have been elbow deep in my uterus pulling out clots and looking for placenta bits if it wasnt absolutely necessary by then. I mean, they didn't do anything else such as an episiotimy or offer any form of pain killer. It just all happened and I remember all that going on, them telling me to stay awake and me not wanting to (thus not really trying to) because this is not a memory I wanted.

They did give me DD when she was born but then went and did the weigh, cleaning, etc etc. This is literally how I got her back.

Also funny you should mention temperature. One thing I always hated about the delivery suites there was that I was freezing cold!