I gave birth in a bed stained of leftover blood and a bucket of rotting placentas on the floor beside the bed, the nurses and dr’s all screamed at me, they did an episiotomy with a dirty scissor and without cause, after the birth they stitched me with instruments that were clearly not sterilized and dirty. I suffered a severe infection after birth and only by the grace of God am I alive, I've never been the same down there and every day I suffer from the physical and emotional pain of that experience. My experience was “normal” according to my friends and it wasn’t until I moved to Canada and gave birth with a midwife in a birth center that I understood that what happened to me was not normal.