A minute later, the baby’s head came out and Jack Malatesta was born. Jack came out perfectly healthy, but Caroline Malatesta doesn’t credit the medical staff in any way.
“As if birthing a baby isn’t hard enough, I gave birth while engaged in a physical struggle against the people I trusted to care for us,” she later wrote.“I kept asking, “Why? Why?” but the nurse wasn’t answering me. She ignored me, acting almost annoyed with me. As we went back and forth—me asking questions and telling her this was more painful for me, and her getting increasingly irritated—it became very clear that this wasn’t about health or safety. It was a power struggle.”
