I was still very new to my job and I accompanied a young woman. She was 17 years old, I was hardly older. The woman tormented herself, the child didn’t seem to step deeper into the pool. I said: “We have to stop, now a caesarean section would make sense.” But the senior physician said: “No, we can do it that way.” He pushed through the vaginal termination of childbirth, with episiotomy and suction cup. It was a big baby for the woman. To this day, she can hardly walk on the street where the clinic is located.
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