Sarah Treleaven
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56 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Sarah Treleaven’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Back and forth they go until finally the car arrives.
Amy feels a wave of relief once Caitlin makes it to the hospital.
When they finally reconnect, there's news. Caitlin's labor is progressing. She's four centimeters dilated, which for Amy means she's now in active labor and can be admitted to the hospital.
Pitocin is a drug that induces labor.
Caitlin narrates as she goes through triage, then up the elevator and she's booked into labor and delivery. Finally, finally, things seem to be going in the right direction. And Amy's relieved that Caitlin will not be having this stillborn baby by herself. A few hours later, there's news. Baby Eden is here.
It's such a heartbreaking situation and they made the best of it together. All of this, remember, Amy is just on the phone.
Caitlin is bleeding. A lot. She tells Amy that the doctors are nervous and she's heading to the operating table. Ultimately, the decision was made that she needs a hysterectomy. A hysterectomy is when a woman's uterus is removed. It's major surgery.
And I just want to pause you there for one second. Tell me about where Caitlin's at at this moment.
But things go from bad to worse. The hysterectomy didn't stop the bleeding. Caitlin needs life-saving surgery and needs to be moved to a bigger hospital with a trauma unit.
Amy stays with Caitlin on the phone the whole ambulance ride to the bigger hospital.
Suddenly, Amy realizes that none of the doctors or nurses working on Caitlin have Amy's contact information.
Caitlin tells Amy that she's being wheeled into surgery and hangs up. Amy is alone, off the phone, for the first time in days.
At around 3 a.m., not long after an exhausted Amy finally drifts off to sleep, she gets a call from Caitlin. Out of surgery, but not out of danger.
It is not over.
I want to just stop here and acknowledge that this is a lot. Like, so much. And in hindsight, Amy sees that now. But at the time she was tending to Caitlin, even though it was all on the phone, it was overwhelming. She hardly ate, rarely slept. All she did was focus all of her energy on what Caitlin needed.
And as someone who had chosen a profession that at its core is about caring for others, her instinct wasn't to say, hey, this seems like a lot for one person.
It's something Amy's ex-husband has noticed. It's why he was keeping their kids at his place. Amy's girlfriend at the time, is also concerned. But at this point, everyone is just doing what they can to support Amy. And Amy needs the support. It's been three days now, and Caitlin's problems just keep getting worse and worse.
At this point, Katie, Amy's friend and fellow doula, is back on the calls, sometimes together and sometimes with Caitlin alone.
Caitlin tells the two doulas that she's starting to go septic. She needs dialysis. It's a smorgasbord of catastrophe. Everything that can go wrong is going wrong. And all to this desperate young woman who just lost her baby.
At some point, the call drops. For a few hours, Katie and Amy do nothing but worry. Until Caitlin gets back in touch at 5 a.m. the next day.
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