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C-sections are the most common surgery in the United States.

But it turns out, in a shocking number of them, the anesthesia is failing.

And that's leaving women to feel a major surgery as it is being performed.

Writer Susan Burton made a series about this phenomenon for our colleagues at Serial Productions.

And today, she tells us about some of the women she spoke to and the new research on how common their experiences are.

It's Friday, February 6th.

Susan, thank you so much for being here.

You have done so much tremendous reporting on something really horrific, which is all of these women who have gotten C-sections and could actually feel them, which sounds like something literally out of a nightmare, out of a horror movie.

And recently, there was a study that came out that actually backed up some of these anecdotes that you had been collecting.

So how did you even get started talking to these women in the first place?

Because we should remind people this is a major abdominal surgery.

So you're hearing the same horrifying through line in a lot of these different stories.

Tell us about one person who maybe stood out to you.

We'll be right back.

So, Susan, before the break, you told us both how upsetting and comforting it was for Vanessa to learn that she wasn't alone because it raised all these new questions like, if she's not alone, why isn't more done for people like her?