Title - Poor care (and superstar midwife) at post-birth operation Tags - sapstory
- The inciting incident
- I ruptured when giving birth to Mabel
- Progressive complications
- It was operated without GA
- Agony for days; assumed normal
- Didn’t get better; went back to hospital 3 days after birth
- Stitches had come out; needed surgery under GA to fix
- Crisis
- No-one talked to me about possibility of gaving Mabel with me or what the implications would be if I couldn’t
- I was bed-ridden, in pain, upset
- I was made to feel like a nuisance/inconvenience
- Wanted to be home with Mabel
- Was told a doctor would see me first thing in the morning; no-one arrived (or communicated) until late afternoon
- Midwife said my catheter needed to be removed and just yanked it out without warning
- Climax
- The surgery was successful
- I went home to Mabel
- Resolution
- I was happy to be back with Mabel
- She continued breast feeding
- Point made
- I was treated poorly and I was very upset about it
- Despite this, one midwife was fantastic
- I genuinely believe her kindness is what allowed me to forget the crap treatment, get through those few days, and get back to Mabel without aany lasting psychological harm
Purposes
In pregnancy, regardless of whatever else is going on - one kind person, one kind gesture, one lovely experience - that can be enough to transform how you feel and how you remember your pregnancy in years to come.
My mission is to make sure that’s exactly what you get, every single time, from a scan at Sneak-A-Peek Ultrasound.