My first child was born in four hours with no problems at all. He is 9 years old now.

I was not expecting to get pregnant but I did. I did a home pregnancy test and it was positive. I was so scared because it had been so long. I went to the doctor's to confirm that I was and they ran all of the tests and IT WAS TRUE! I was scared, but excited at the same time.

At the next appointment I had all of the tests. After the results came back, I was called in to see the doctor. He told me that I had cervical cancer. I WAS REALLY SCARED. He sent me to a specialist to see if I could carry the baby. I went and he told me that the baby and I would be fine and that they would take care of it six weeks after delivery.

The pregnancy went well. I had a few false alarms. On Christmas, just before dinner, I started spotting. So I called the doctor and he said to stay home until I knew it was time. I woke up at 6 the next morning and knew it was time to go in.

We arrived at the hospital. They put me in the bed and then I was checked. They said that my membranes had ruptured yesterday and that they needed to get the baby out as soon as possible. I needed to have a post drip. MAN DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL EVERY INCH OF THE PAIN! I labored until 4 that afternoon. Then the doctor came in and said nothing was happening and that they needed to do an emergency Cesarean Section. All I wanted was for my baby to be okay. They did the surgery and everything went fine. She was beautiful and weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces and was as healthy as a horse.

After the six weeks was when my trouble started. I went through three leaps and the doctors said they could not get the cancer. I was going to have to have my uterus removed. I was devastated. I was not ready to do this, but everyone was telling me I needed to be here for my children, so I had it done. About four days after the surgery, I was leaving the hospital from a checkup and the doctor that did the leaps came out to our car and asked me if I heard the good news. I said no and he told me the good news was that they got the cancer, but the bad news was that they got it with the last leap. Because he could not get it to stop bleeding, he had to burn more than usual and did not have me checked before my surgery. Let me tell you, if I had the guts, I would have stepped out of that car and punched his lights out, but I didn't. That freaked me out so badly that I could not stop crying.

So I went and talked to the head doctor. He said he would ask him why he said that. When he asked him, he told him he did not say that. He told him all he said was that he was sharing that he was happy the cancer was gone. But my mom was right there and heard what he said. A few days went by and I was called in to see the head doctor. I had my doctor, the head doctor, and the surgeon there. They all said that I had to have it done and that there was not enough cervix left from the last leap to carry a baby anyway. All I wanted was for the surgery to be my decision, not the cancer's. Then to find out that I didn't need it to be done was devastating.

So I just went about my life trying to just learn how to deal with it and to be happy with the two children I have. A few months went by and I got a hernia at the site of the surgery. The doctor told me that it was no big deal to fix and that they would just go in and put a piece of mesh in there to fix it. So I had that surgery and was in the hospital for a couple of days and was sent home.

Then I was having problems eating and was throwing up so I went back to the emergency room. They did an X-ray and said they could see nothing wrong, but I was dehydrated. So they hooked me up to an IV and then sent me home and said if I was still sick the next day to come back in. I was, so they did a CAT Scan. They said I had a bowel obstruction and needed emergency surgery to fix it. I was freaking out. I didn't want to have any more pain. When they got in there, they found it was infected and there were three big puss pockets. And that it was not a bowel obstruction but that the blood supply was not getting to my belly button so they had to remove it.

I am sorry this was such a long story, but I just can't believe what it took for me to have this baby. My life will never be the same. I would not give her back for anything. Has anyone ever had this problem and if so, how did you deal with it? I feel it was malpractice, but don't know or have the money to do anything about it. I hope no one will have to go through what I did. Thank you for reading my story and hope to hear from someone.