“What are you doing?” I demanded then, watching in horror as one midwife stuck a syringe into my mother’s thigh while the other began pushing down hard on her stomach. “Stop it, will ya? She’s only had a baby. You’ll hurt her.” “It’s okay, Joey,” Mam said. “This is normal.” “The fuck?” “I promise your mother is perfectly fine,” the midwife explained calmly. “This is all very normal. We’re helping her uterus to contract so that she can deliver the placenta as quickly and as easily as possible.” “The pla-what-a?” I gaped at the nurse and then swung my gaze to my mother. “There’s more?” I shook
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As a labor and delivery nurse LOL
