What do you do when the birth doesn’t go to plan?

I’ve been thinking about the quiet after. Not the joy, not the relief—just the silence in the room when everything was supposed to be moving, but stopped. The mother breathing too fast, the baby’s heart rate dipping, and me standing there with my hands still in her body, waiting for a sign that wasn’t coming. I don’t know what I’d say to someone who asked me how I handle that. I just… keep going. But sometimes I wonder: do others remember it like I do? Or do they just let it fade into the background of their story?