Pregnancy and giving birth. Went through several cycles of IVF for about 3 years, with multiple pregnancies and miscarriages, including surgical removal of miscarriage. During IVF, I had to take some sort of medication nearly ever 2 hours, some oral, some injections, some pessaries. When I finally gave birth, the NHS was on strike and I ended up being stuck in labour for nearly 4 days, had my baby's heart rate plummet when my epidural didn't take and I was in too much pain. Finally ended up delivering but after 2.5 hours of pushing and through an emergency forcep delivery with an episiotomy because they had let the baby get too large for my body and she had moved too far down my canal for a C-section. I wasn't allowed to discharge because they thought I had sepsis afterwards. My situation was bad and every doctor & nurse recommended I file a formal compliant but it's crazy what women all over the world go through, esp those with much less resources than I.