Unfortunately, Malatesta continued to suffer every day. She says that the “nightmare delivery” left her permanently injured, suffering from a terrible condition called “pudendal neuralgia”. The main symptom of this condition is extreme, permanent pain in the genitals, which she said ruined her family life.
Malatesta once stated, “My obstetrician called it the worst injury he has seen in all his decades of practice. It has turned our family life upside down. I was a stay-at-home mother of four children, ages five and under, at the time Jack was born, and what happened to me during his birth left me unable to care for them as needed. I endure debilitating pain on a near daily basis—pain much worse than labor.”