Devastated mother claims her surgeon 'SLICED her newborn daughter's face open' with a scalpel while performing her C-section - leaving the infant with a large scar across her cheek

The birth of your child should be one of the happiest days of your life - but for one new mom looking at her baby girl is filled with mixed emotions.

In a recent Instagram post, US mom-of-one Emily shared her painful story , revealing a doctor accidentally sliced her daughter's face with a scalpel during her caesarean on December 24, 2022.

'POV: you give birth to a beautiful baby girl but it's so hard to look past the scar the physician left on your baby's face and it makes you feel all the feels,' she wrote, alongside a short clip of her sleeping daughter with a scar running from the middle of her ear to almost the corner of her eye. 

'When I woke up from my anesthesia for my C-section and found out the resident had sliced my newborn baby's face open with the scalpel I was upset and angry,' she admitted in the post made on March 22. 

In recent Instagram post, US mom-of-one Emily shared her painful story, revealing a doctor accidentally sliced her daughter's face with a scalpel during her caesarean in December 2022

'It took me a long time to forgive her in my heart,' the kindergarten teacher turned stay-at-home mom added.

'I know I wouldn't have ever been able to if I didn't have the knowledge and faith that Christ does the same thing for me when I mess up.'

Emily continued, writing:  'I hope you can accept Jesus' love for you and forgive someone who has wronged you, I know it's not always easy but it's always worth it.

'My heart goes out to anyone who this has also happened to.'

Hundreds of people commented on the post were filled with questions and comments about the traumatic experience, as well as from medical professionals sharing their own stories.

'As a resident, I can tell you when a medical mistake happens you feel like it's the end of the world,' one woman commented. 

'I can tell you that it probably felt like that day to them. And maybe they tried to down play it for their own sake and yours. 

'But talking from experience, it is one of the worst feelings in the world. By no means am I condoning it, but we are human. We try to be perfect every day, but we can't unfortunately.'

Her daughter (pictured with Emily) is now more than 15 months old and the scar on her face is fading 

In the short clip, Emily wrote: 'POV: you give birth to a beautiful baby girl but it's so hard to look past the scar the physician left on your baby's face and it makes you feel all the feels'

Another doctor shared their story, admitting they accidentally cut a baby's leg during a C-section.

'It devastated me. It was a stat section, an absolute emergency situation, and time to mom going to sleep to baby out was 30 seconds,' they wrote in a comment.

'It happens, but often it's not negligence or inexperience. It's usually because the alternative may be much much worse.

'And we know what that looks like because we see the much much worse far too often, so we do everything in our power to keep it from happening.'

'It was an accident, not intentional. Grow up,' another slammed the mom. 'Don't act like you have never caused harm to anyone else in your entire life.'

'Instead of being thankful that her baby is alive, she would rather put it on IG to get pity and views. My son's head was sliced too during emergency. But he's alive!' a third person wrote.

Others sided with Emily on the matter.

'You can be upset about this and still be grateful they saved your baby. Why is it so hard for everyone in the comments to understand that?' one user pointed out.

'The gaslighting in this comment section is wild. Birth trauma is very very real. I see you,' one woman commented.