She's the Australian woman who reached inside herself and delivered her own twins during a caesarean section.
Three days before Christmas, Gerri Wolfe, 41, gave birth to her 10th and 11th children, Matilda and Violet, in a very unusual procedure at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, New South Wales.
It was to be Mrs Wolfe's fifth experience having a caesarean - but she didn't want a traditional one.
She was 'devastated' when she learned she had a complication in her 36th week and would have to have a caesarean.
'My other caesareans were very sterile, very surgical, very impersonal,' she told Daily Mail Australia from her home on the Central Coast.
'People were talking about what they did on the weekend without even thinking about me laying on the table, going through this momentous experience of having a baby.'
But then she recalled a procedure she had read about online - a maternal assisted caesarean.
It is a typical caesarean, performed by doctors, with the only difference being the mother reaches into her belly and lifts the infant out at the end.
Her OB-GYN (obstetrician-gynaecologist) was not convinced. 'No, no, no', he said. Her husband, Robert, joked that she was causing trouble.
But Mrs Wolfe is used to getting what she wants. 'It's my body, it's my birth, it's my baby,' she said.
Culled from Daily Mail
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