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I hemorrhaged about 2-3 hours after giving birth due to retained placenta. It was a serious hemorrhage and an emergency, and they had to manually attempt to remove the retained placenta without anesthetic or pain relief, leaving me with serious trauma from the pain.

Two questions:
1. What is the chance in a second pregnancy that I will retain placenta again?
2. Can they do anything proactive to provide pain relief, were this to happen again? I’m so, so scared of experiencing that again.

I went into birth so calm and excited and had a wonderful, empowering experience, up to that point. I think I want a second child, but I also am fearful that I will be panicking my entire pregnancy.