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About: Maternity care / Labour suite maternity Maternity care / Maternity care (Ward 31)

(as the patient),

Maternity unit in paisley, ended up as an emergency c section. In major major pain and discharged  24 hours after my c section, I was absolutely not in a fit state to leave, I was bleeding heavily and couldn’t even move to go to the toilet, this may also have been due to the fact that from 5am till 4:30pm when I was discharged I repeatedly asked for my painkillers that I was due and each time I was told they would be right back with them, I never got them once

I was kept on the labour ward as there was no beds elsewhere so this may have played into the reason as to why my care was so so poor. 

Asked for help multiple times to go to the toilet and change the baby as I was in so much pain and I was told I'll have to get used to doing this myself for when I'm at home. This left me speechless as I was in absolute agony. 

There is more and more reasons as to why I was shocked with how poor the care was but I could write thousands of words on this

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Response from Laura Flynn, Lead Midwife Clyde, Maternity Services, Royal Alexandra Hospital, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde last month
Laura Flynn
Lead Midwife Clyde, Maternity Services, Royal Alexandra Hospital,
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Submitted on 04/11/2025 at 16:31
Published on Care Opinion at 16:31


Thank you for sharing your experience. I’m very sorry to hear about the pain and distress you went through following your caesarean section. This is not the standard of care we aim to provide, and your feedback is extremely important to us. I will ensure your comments are shared with the team so we can review what happened and make improvements. If you would like to discuss this further, please contact on the email below so we can support you and address your concerns directly.

Kindest Regards,

Laura Flynn

Lead Midwife Clyde

laura.flynn@nhs.scot

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