Amy Perry
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71 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Amy Perry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She'd say, OK, it's 11 minutes away. And I said, OK, great. We'll start counting them down. That's like in my mind, we have a contraction every like five minutes. So I was saying things like that's two contractions. We can do that. Right. That's two contractions till the till the Uber gets here. You know, I know it's going to take you some time to.
I know you think you can get to the door in 10 minutes, but like you're in labor. This is going to take you time. Let's start getting our shoes on. Let's start getting the things we need. Let's make sure our stuff's at the door. We'll stop for contractions. But that 10 minutes would go by and there'd still be nobody. And she'd go, oh, he's still now he's 12 minutes away.
Okay, well, maybe he's picking somebody up on the way. Like, I don't know. I'm not there. I can't see your phone. And I'm like, okay, did you do everything right? Yes. Another 10 minutes goes by. Once we get it 30 minutes, she tells me that she forgot to hit the confirm ride button. And so that's why the time had been dancing. And so she said, yep, it's for sure hit now.
He's definitely on his way. I have a time he's going to be here. And I am honestly like freaking out at this point, like contractions are strong. And in my head, I'm picturing her having a stillborn baby in the doorway of her house when an Uber driver pulls up. And I, I'm losing it. So I ask if I can call an ambulance for her. And she said no. I don't know her address at this point either.
So even if I was to call 911, I don't have an address to send the ambulance.
So she gets in the Uber. I hear a car accelerating and decelerating. She's speaking to somebody else in the car. I can't hear them because I'm just in her earbuds. But she's speaking as if there's somebody else in the car. And we're even making jokes about how this will be the story of his Uber career.
So we get to the hospital. I hear... You know, you hear when people are walking through different environments. So I could hear, you know, it sounded like a lobby. I could hear what sounded like more enclosed space, like an elevator. We did a contraction in the lobby. She was working her way up. She was excited that there was nobody in the elevator.
And when she got to labor and delivery, she told me she was going to hang up so that she could deal with that. And she was going right in.
But oddly, Caitlin is being sent home. They wouldn't admit her until she was five centimeters, which sounds weird to me, but I'm not there. And that she was being sent home with the promise of Pitocin the next morning.
The next day, I spent the entire Saturday alone at my house on the phone with her, continuing this labor. We started our conversation with me saying, okay, like, when are you going in for this Pitocin? Like, when's your appointment? And she told me 2 o'clock in the afternoon, which I right away was a little red flagged on because she had told me Pitocin in the morning. And like, a 2 p.m.
afternoon appointment is like... far away from what was happening in my mind. But I don't know what's happening at the hospital. I don't know what's going on. So I really just hang out on the phone with her. Amy coaches Caitlin through more contractions. They all sounded really real to me. They do the car booking dance again.
Not quite the same where she forgot to hit the button, but this time she told me the name of the driver. And again, there was like a conversation with this driver that I could hear through her. I didn't hear this person, but I heard the same car sounds. And she got to her appointment. She went right in.
We had a lovely stillbirth delivery. Like, you know, as nice as it could be, she described to us what the baby looked like when she was holding her. She got that immediate skin to skin and she described what it was like to hold the baby and what she felt like.
And then she started making noises like she was in pain again. She was making like, oh, like, oh, kind of noises, like, like something was being done to her body. And she explained to me that they were tugging at her placenta, that they were tugging at the cord and that it was painful. And she was having a hard time with that.
And so I was just reminding her to breathe, you know, let her body do what it's supposed to do. You know, I'm here for you, whatever happens and just reminding her she's not alone.
And so I'm on the phone with a 24-year-old girl who's just had a stillborn baby to a sexual assault. And now I have to process with her that she needs a hysterectomy after this.
She's just acting very sad at this moment. To me, it was acting like she was a little bit dissociative, like she maybe wasn't really present in the moment. She started like whispering a lot of the bad news. So she would, she would like get really quiet and say they want to do a hysterectomy. And then you'd be like, okay, that really blows. Let's figure that out.
But right now, you just need to know that you're safe. These are medical professionals. They're trying to do what's best for you. If you're bleeding this badly, then they're trying to save your life. And I'm here for you, right?
It sounded like she was fading, like it sounded like she was having difficulty talking, like she was having difficulty staying awake. She would talk about how scared she was.
She would explain what the inside of the ambulance looked like. Honestly, she used a lot of tactics that I have been taught all my life in therapy. Things like focusing on one object in the room and describing that object in the room. or focusing on one feeling you're having instead of all the different feelings you're having. And so we spent time doing that.
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