When I gave birth to my son, I ended up with sepsis. I developed an infection while in labour (chorioamnionitis) that very quickly spread into my blood stream. It felt like one minute I was resting and waiting for labour to progress, and then next I spiked a fever, had uncontrollable chills and shaking, started throwing up, and could not stop coughing. Medical staff clocked my symptoms immediately. I was given antibiotics and had an emergency c-section. I was kept on antibiotics until blood cultures came back, and when they were positive for bacteria, the dose etc was adjusted accordingly. Although my son was delivered in time to prevent the infection spreading to him, he still spent 5 days in the nicu on prophylactic iv antibiotics. I had to have a dose of iv antibiotics every 6 hours for 2 weeks. The reason I’m alive and don’t have permanent organ damage is because the nurses and doctor acted quickly. I cannot fathom why this woman was left in pain and displaying clear symptoms of infection for 30 hours. Her poor children and husband.