A woman has gone viral on the social media platform TikTok after revealing that her eyeball popped out during labour.
Bethany Collins, 23, suffered from a rare side effect while she was giving birth to her baby daughter, Phoebe Bell.
After going into labour, she was given Pitocin, which helps to stimulate the uterus muscles and cause contractions, in attempt to speed up the process. Despite being administered this, her cervix was still not opening and, as she was suffering from severe contractions and the baby's heart rate was dropping, she decided to have an epidural.
Bethany began to push with all of her strength to help deliver the baby, but soon realised that she had been pushing too hard, as her eyeball then popped out, Wales Online writes.
Bethany said: “I heard a pop and asked the doctor ‘is my eyeball still in my head?’”
“He said yes, but I opened my eyes and everything was blurry. I felt so much pressure in my left eye, but I pushed again for the third time and she came. They took her to make sure she was okay, before handing her over to me.
“I asked my husband ‘is my eyeball really in my head? It can’t be – I feel so much pressure and I can barely see anything, something has to be wrong.’ He said that it was definitely poking out more than the one, but it wasn’t too bad.”
After 10 minutes, her eye started to poke out even further and only got worse overnight. As she was being stitched up, the doctor commented that he had never seen this happen before, so called an optometrist to take a look. Bethany said: “I told him I wasn’t in any pain but he just continued looking at my eye.
“I had pretty much the whole unit come and look too – I became the talk of the unit that day. My sweet nurse asked if I wanted a patch, so I could at least see out of my good eye without any interference. She got me a pack of nipple covers and I used them instead.
“The next day, the optometrist looked at my eye and also commented that he had never seen something like this before. Ultimately, the final verdict was that there was just a lot of pressure from the force of the push, so said to wait and see if it would go back.
“I noticed improvements at the two-week mark and it was like I got a black eye. It was protruding and bruised. It took six weeks for my eye to finally flush back into my face and even it out with the other, but I really thought I was doomed.
“Things are now great, as I have a beautiful two-month-old baby girl and two normal eyeballs.”
Bethany shared a video of her ordeal on TikTok and has since received 1.8 million views and over 260,000 likes on the video. She begins by lip syncing: “I think I would look so sexy pregnant” before revealing a picture of her after giving birth. Bethany is shown with one eye falling significantly lower than the other one, as the text reads: “My eye popped out while I was pushing.”
As she poses with her newborn, the eye can clearly be seen protruding outward. “New fear unlocked,” one viewer commented.
Another person added: “Hi ma’am I’m 6 months pregnant and I need u to keep things like this to urself.” "This is why I closed my eyes,” someone else wrote.
One person said: “Nicki Minaj keep an eye out for selener.” “I’m never having a child,” another viewer commented.
Someone offered a piece of preventative advice, by saying: “Guys- avoid ‘purple pushing’ where you’re instructed to hold your breath while pushing. Breathe however feels best & u can avoid this.” [sic]
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