Susan Burton
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And she's in shock.
And how did she make sense of what had happened to her?
I mean, for a while, she really couldn't.
She had to ask her husband, like, was that real?
Did that really happen?
She couldn't believe that it could have happened.
Yeah, she couldn't believe that it could have happened.
You know, and he would say, like, yes, that was real.
It happened.
You were in pain.
You were screaming.
You know, she's having PTSD symptoms.
She's having flashbacks.
She told me that at one point she had this dream that she was pregnant.
And the scary thing in the dream was, how are they going to get the baby out of me?
Over time, she was able to start talking about it, and she heard from other people that this is a thing that goes on.
Like, her lactation consultant said, oh, this has happened to other clients.
Her therapist said, I've heard this from other people.
And it was, on the one hand, reassuring to Vanessa, right, that this is a thing that happens.