For expectant mothers like Cyndia, the hospital was a one-stop shop.

You're supposed to do kick counts, and so I was doing kick counts, and he wasn't moving.

And of course, as soon as I got to the labor and delivery unit, he was wiggling all around and I was fine.

But Callie was there, and she told me, you know, "If anything like this happens, don't be afraid to come in.

Like, just because this was a false alarm, we're here for you, and if you feel like something's wrong, don't hesitate to come back.

Even if you think that you're crazy and you don't have anything actually wrong with you, if you feel like there's something wrong, just come in and get checked out because that's what it's there for."

After she gave birth, she started hemorrhaging.

As soon as I saw Laura, one of the other midwives, come at me with a giant syringe of Pitocin, and she put that into my leg, and then that wasn't enough, so they put another one into my other leg.