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Podcast: Mommy Labor Nurse
Episode: Kayleigh's AFE Survival Birth Story
Description: Kayleigh Summers joined me to share the story of her son's birth. Kayleigh went in for what she anticipated to be a routine induction to meet her son, only to suffer an incredibly rare complication known as an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) right as she was beginning to push him out. Amniotic fluid embolism happens in approximately 1 in 100,000 births. The infant survival rate is only about 70%, and the maternal survival rate is somewhere between 30-50%. Basically everyone's worst nightmare! Luckily Kayleigh is here to tell her story today of being an AFE survivor, and I'm...