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153 Near-Death Experiences from Childbirth Complications

Experiences triggered by childbirth complications

NDEs during childbirth are unique — they often involve the experiencer encountering their unborn or recently born child in the NDE realm, or being told they must return for the sake of their baby.

Recent Childbirth Complications Experiences

NDE
Greyson: 25/32
female

Terry E NDE

I had had a difficult birth of our first daughter on September 23, 1970. I was only nineteen, small boned, and the baby was over eight pounds in weight. After many hours of labor, the doctor finally performed a c'sarean section to deliver her. I was ...

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NDE
Greyson: 20/32
female

Bardin NDE

On last 21st of July, I gave birth, having a C'sarean under epidural. About two hours later, back in my room, I had a rather significant bleeding.… I called the hospital staff to ask them to change my sheet, spotted. The nurse asked me if I felt well...

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NDE
Greyson: 14/32
female

Laura Z NDE-Like

During the delivery of my third child, I had the very unexpected experience of talking with God.During this delivery, I was given an inhaled anesthetic through a mask. (To skeptics who'd discount drug-influenced experiences, I assure you that I was c...

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NDE
Greyson: 17/32
male

Clark B NDE

I did not have the 'tunnel experience' many others have had. I was hovering over my family. I knew I was dead and felt guilty that my wife and children were crying over me while I was feeling so good. I wanted them to be dead with me and tried to let...

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NDE
Greyson: 14/32
female

Theresa G NDE

I had my daughter at 12:07 pm. At 2:00 pm, I looked at the clock knowing it was time to bring my daughter in for me to see. The nurse came in and as I looked at the clock, I told her, I am sick. The nurse just took off running. That's all I remember ...

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NDE
Greyson: 23/32
female

Talia NDE

It was just right and one of the few memories of a perfect time that I keep. I was struck by a car in 1983. The experience caused a great shift in me I see the whole of it as an awakening, a blessing and something that was a gift that remains yet unm...

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NDE
Greyson: 10/32
female

Lisa S NDE

I had been visiting family, up late, having gone to bed around 12:30 a.m. I woke up almost 2 hours later having horrible leg cramps. I got up to walk around, glanced at the clock and it was 2:22 a.m. The next thing I remember was laying on the flo...

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NDE
Greyson: 12/32
female

Shaida VH NDE

Hours after giving birth to my first child, Adrijana, I began to experience excruciating pain in my womb. I was asked to shut up as it was disturbing other mothers. A few hours later I began to leave my bed towards the ceiling and intuitively I knew ...

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NDE
Greyson: 10/32
female

Robin G NDE

When I was nineteen years old, I gave birth to my daughter Khrysta after seven hours of excruciating labor. The doctor kept telling me not to push but I could not help it. The urge to push was too intense. After I pushed her out, I heard the nurse ...

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NDE
Greyson: 20/32
female

Cecilia H NDE

Death caused by hypobulimic shock. The Light attracts me as a magnet. It is so marvelous that I follow it but then retreat from it because I am listening to the crying of the people who were surrounding me. It is like if I turned to the right hand si...

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NDE
Greyson: 5/32
female

Leta C NDE

Before giving birth to my son, the nurse informed me that I was dilated at 7 cm and that they were taking me into delivery. My son was eight pounds six ounces and literally tore me to pieces. I was later informed that the doctor had to put eighty-som...

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NDE
Greyson: 10/32
female

Christine E NDE

I found myself walking in a valley. I remember words coming into my mind, 'So this is the valley of the shadow...' There was a white mist surrounding me. I was unable to see through it except that they was a brilliant white light - as if the sun was ...

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NDE
Greyson: 19/32
female

Kelly K NDE

It suddenly became easier to breathe. I knew everything the doctor was about to do, before he did things. I began to ascend, face first, through a tunnel that was a warm, reddish color, like the color of tomato soup, but soft and similar to clouds. T...

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NDE
Greyson: 8/32
female

Ruby L NDE

I remember I was floating on the ceiling and I could see myself lying on the table at the hospital and the doctor and nurses were working on me. My husband and sister were there and I saw my sister take my hand and say, 'She is so cold.' She later sa...

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NDE
Greyson: 13/32
female

Ann S NDE

I had a difficult birth with my first child - she was induced and the birth lasted almost two days. When I finally got into the delivery room, things started to go wrong. I heard them talking about tachycardia, and then something about my oxygen leve...

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NDE
Greyson: 15/32
male

John G Probable NDE

I have experienced many things I later found out no one else could see, from nearly infancy. My 'feelings, or premonitions' saved my life at least three times, two of them in Boston, where I was held up at gunpoint, but I knew ahead what was coming, ...

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NDE
Greyson: 5/32
female

Timi G Probable NDE

I set off down a long tunnel, at the end of which was a dot of light. As I went along, I thought, 'Oh, good. I'm dead.' When I reached the end of it, there was bright sunlight, and I was walking in a landscape. I walked over to a building like a chur...

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NDE
Greyson: 15/32
male

Phillip O NDE

Phillip O NDE Home Classification NDE 972 Phillip O NDE 21396 Experience Description I fell down an empty stairwell backwards. I landed over the lower corner of floor, did a flip, and hit my head on a brick. I was unconscious, but don't know how long...

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NDE
Greyson: 20/32
female

Arlette KY NDE

What I now know was an aura passed, just unconsciousness, not aware that I was gone. Floating, no sound or smell, a feeling of utter peace, no forward, or backwards or side to side, in a light part of the light, no weight, no pain, no body awareness....

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SDE
Greyson: 30/32
Age 10, female

Sharon D NDE

It was the beginning of the Christmas holiday where I worked. I had not been feeling well for quite sometime, but thought it was just the holiday rush. I went to my best friends house for a Christmas party, but left early because I was feeling wors...

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NDE
Greyson: 16/32
female

Violet P NDE

I was having a baby and the doctor could not stop the bleeding. I left my body. I watched them working on me. Then there was a bright light around me and I heard my great aunt's voice. (She has been dead since I was ten.) She asked me if I really tru...

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NDE
Greyson: 20/32
female

Terry A NDE

This was my 4th child , and he like the rest were born at home. My husband was a doctor, and it always seemed to me that we were over prepared, with medical equipment etc. Except this time, the room looked sparse to me. Later I found out that he fear...

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ADC
Greyson: 19/32
female

Aurora N NDE

Well the nurse told me to count to ten. It seemed like I had just closed my eyes yet opened them. Like my mind was wide awake. I was going through a dark tunnel. It seemed like a part of me was scared of lying on the bed. I looked left and right but ...

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NDE
Greyson: 22/32
female

Imma Probable NDE

Imma Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1134 Imma Probable NDE 3104 Experience Description I was hospitalized because my child was dead in utero. I was 8 months along. On my way to practice birthing, I felt as if I would faint and I told t...

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NDE
Greyson: 22/32
female

Felicity W NDE

I was almost eight months pregnant with my first child. I'd had my thirty-four week check and although at the time I was told everything was fine, looking back it's obvious I had signs of pre-eclampsia. At around thirty-five and a half weeks, my husb...

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NDE
Greyson: 22/32
male

Melvin H NDE

It was a very wet morning and we were going to change out electrical transformers at building #445 and replace them with new types of transformers. Our work leader instructed us to kill the voltage to the transformers we were going to work on. My too...

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NDE
Greyson: 7/32
female

Sally A NDE

I was in hospital in a seven bed ward. All the beds had a curtain for privacy. I was hovering up at the ceiling. I was looking down at all the patients in their beds and then looked at myself. I questioned myself, 'If am I up here, how can I see when...

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NDE
Greyson: 12/32
female

Lonna O NDE

I was told (after the fact) that I was given a cocktail of heavy duty drugs. I didn't remember having been given the drugs. I must have had a violent reaction to them immediately. My baby had not been delivered yet. I remember being up high in a corn...

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NDE
Greyson: 16/32
female

Jeanette NDE

Jeanette NDE Home Classification NDE 1287 Jeanette NDE 449 Experience Description I was 'partying' with a friend of mine when I was seventeen. We were at the beach. I inhaled this type of gas (that has the potential I found out later of freezing your...

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NDE
Greyson: 20/32
female

Virginia F NDE

I was given the medication called the epidural. I was allergic to it and it had paralyzed me from the neck down. I went into shock from the medication and then my blood pressure bottomed out and I died. I left my body and could hear the nurses and do...

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NDE
Greyson: 10/32
female

Goldie J NDE

I was in a hospital delivery room; I was surrounded by doctors and nurses. Someone in the same room was screaming; I was disturbed by it. I know this because I heard a nurse remark to that effect. Before I went to the delivery room, I was thrashing a...

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NDE
Greyson: 23/32
female

Linda R NDE

Ten days after the birth of our second child, my husband and I had a planned evening for just the two of us. We celebrated the success of giving birth to our son the way most happily married couples do but something seemed 'odd' within my body. I rem...

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NDE
Greyson: 17/32
female

Mother-in-Law NDE

My name is George and I narrate the experience of my mother-in-law, whom I didn't know. My wife related the experience to me. I was particularly interested in NDE's, and on one occasion when I spoke with my wife on this theme, she relayed this experi...

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NDE
Greyson: 13/32
female

Moselle NDE

I was giving birth to my fifth child, she was overdue by two to three weeks and it was a birth brought on by injection. I recall being rushed to the operating room. After that, it seemed I was rushing through a long passageway, which was filled with ...

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NDE
Greyson: 15/32
female

Laura D NDE

My baby was not due until December, but my water broke and I went to the hospital. The baby was born at 1:19am on October 15th. My doctor pushed down on my abdomen to help expel the afterbirth. I remember blood shot all over the nurse and her unifor...

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NDE
Greyson: 11/32
female

Selina NDE

On passing out I felt a sudden rush past many people's faces. They were talking at me but couldn't understand what was being said. Finally reached end of light to be kissed and sent back. Awake to have an emergency ceasarian.

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NDE
Greyson: 15/32
female

Mariana Probable NDE

It was 10:00 am. My husband was helping me to take a shower because I couldn't do it by myself since I had a c'sarean four days ago. I had a daughter who survived 30 minutes because she had respiratory failure. I was very weak and depressed. I felt ...

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NDE
Greyson: 19/32
female

Cynthia NDE

I had this experience hours after giving birth to my third son. After the delivery, I was transferred to the room where I would stay for rest of my hospital stay. I was laying down resting when I suddenly felt a gush of blood. I pulled up the sheets ...

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NDE
Greyson: 16/32
female

Mary G SOBE

It was the day before my thirty-seventh birthday. Noelle was coming into the world. I had a bad experience with my son's birth eight years before, so this time, I decided to go completely natural. It was a little frightening, because the doctor ha...

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NDE
Greyson: 16/32
female

Nadera S Probable NDE

I had stopped breathing during sleep because I had blisters on my throat the air stream constricted.I saw four people - three men and a woman. One of the men was in white uniform and I knew the woman according to her clothes. They put me on a litter...

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NDE
Greyson: 15/32
female

Jenna P Probable NDE

The first thing I recall was floating in darkness. My head and torso were contained in a clear rectangular box, which was filled with a plasma like substance. I was only a torso at this time I had no arms or legs that I could see or feel. I was surro...

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NDE
Greyson: 20/32
female

Fabia NDE

I went into premature labor with uncontrollable hemorrhaging. It's about noontime and I wait while people rush around me saying the same thing repeatedly, 'I can't find any more sheets!' Nobody says anything directly to me. I feel myself 'leaving', I...

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NDE
Greyson: 17/32
male

John S NDE

I had had a severe diverticular blood loss about an hour earlier and was very unsteady on my feet. I felt terrible during the journey as my blood pressure felt very low. Family members were helping me out of the car and into the house. I knew I need...

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NDE
Greyson: 15/32
female

Joelle L Possible NDE

I remember being somewhere where it was very bright. There were others with me. I think like three or four others. We were in a group. There were others, I sensed them but I could not see them. The ones I saw are funny. It seemed like all I saw of th...

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NDE
Greyson: 17/32
female

Lorie NDE

After giving birth to my second child I hemorrhaged while waiting to deliver the placenta.I was violently shaking from shock, losing blood, and medication to stop the bleeding. I started to drift into a sleep and awoke in a different place. I was sti...

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NDE
Greyson: 26/32
female

Blester PW NDE

Blester PW NDE Home Classification NDE 1966 Blester PW NDE 4091 Experience Description I was in contact with a woman who I was supporting in Glasgow. She had accidently pushed my purse into a drain. I was leaning over to get it when suddenly everythi...

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NDE
Greyson: 17/32
female

Polly R Probable NDE

My experience was a little different because I was having a baby girl. I was told there might be something wrong with her heart when I was about five months pregnant. Luckily toward the end, she was okay. When I went into the hospital, to be checked,...

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NDE
Greyson: 20/32
female

Lynne H NDE

I gave birth after a long labor. I kept saying the head was too big but they said the baby is small so I should be able to push her out. Eventually after eleven hours of labor, they decided to do a small cut. The baby shot out like a bullet and I tor...

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NDE
Greyson: 10/32
female

Silvia B Possible NDE

In that moment, my whole life with every single scene that it was composed of passed by very quickly. I couldn't remain in any scene for more than a fraction of a second. My attention was directed towards a very white and brilliant light. I wanted to...

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NDE
Greyson: 10/32
female

Carol M NDE

I personally had weird complications after giving birth. I had lost a lot of blood. I was in the recovery room and holding the baby but felt like I was going to faint and told my sister to take the baby. I blacked out but could hear my sister calling...

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