Vasiliki Troufakou was a guest on Jenny Theona’s show, where she shared a candid account of her challenging labor experience as a new mother. The actress described in detail the difficulties she encountered over the long hours of labor.

“My labor lasted over 30 hours! The pains started on Mother’s Day, at 7 a.m., after a sleepless night. I was in pain, so I called my midwife and told her, ‘I think it’s happening.’ I contacted the doctor, and she told me, ‘You’ll know by noon; either it will stop or intensify.’ However, it neither stopped nor intensified. I was in a lot of pain, but it was steady without feeling like I was splitting in two.”

“At some point, I went to the hospital with a heavy heart, frustrated because I’d started feeling a lot of pain at the 12-hour mark. I didn’t want to go in so early. I was thinking, ‘Why are they taking me in already? I’m fine.’ They examined me and told me, ‘You’re three centimeters dilated, so you’re not going anywhere.’ They dressed me up, which relieved my partner, who was also frustrated, and then the labor stalled.”

“By early morning, my water hadn’t broken, and I didn’t want them to break it manually. I did, however, want an epidural because I’m not one of those people who wants to ‘experience it all.’ Eventually, my water broke, but by the time I reached five or six centimeters of dilation, the labor was stalled.”

“Then things started going the opposite way, even though I was so eager to give birth naturally. I had gone a full 24 hours without food, so I was incredibly hungry and vomiting. By the early hours, I was freezing, vomiting, and feeling like I was dying,” Troufakou added in her new interview on public television. “I remember wondering if they would bring in a doctor to see me. ‘Since I’m dying, don’t they care?’ I thought to myself because I felt like I was fading somehow.”