"The care after I’ve had my baby"

I had my baby boy back in September. At 30 weeks pregnant I felt a pop and my midwife had told me to get my waters checked in Antrim where I was having my baby, they told me it wasn’t. I had Incontinence before I fell pregnant so they had said it’s probably just that. I got my waters checked again about 2 weeks after as I was leaking a lot more, they were checked and I was told they hadn’t broke. In the meantime I had developed gestational diabetes and was getting scans every 2 weeks.

I got my waters checked another time and told again it wasn’t. I went to EOU in Antrim where I had been a few times with reduced fetal movement on a Tuesday at 39 weeks and was due to be induced the Monday, again they had checked my waters and said there not gone but also said seeing as I’d been there a few times with reduced movement they said they would do a scan. The scan showed little to no waters around my baby so the kept me in and said they will start inducing me.

The Friday came and they said they were taking me to the delivery suite where they had done a set of bloods which had came back that I had an infection in my womb and my baby’s heart rate was too high and wasn’t dropping so I had to have an emergency c section.

After my surgery the surgeon had asked if I had any questions. I had asked was my waters gone, they said yes and I had asked how long and they was saying 9 weeks they'd say and I said I’ve been getting my waters checked and kept saying there weren’t gone and they had said the test for water is not 100% accurate. I also asked why was it not detected in the scans as I’ve been getting them every 2 weeks and they said it could have come from the back which they can’t detect.

While recovering in the ward the nurses had asked me if I’d like to try get out of bed after my section, when I was getting out of bed a tube and monitor fell out. I had asked where’s that coming from and they then told me it was a special dressing which I wasn’t informed about. Also I had to wear special socks for the surgery and had to keep them on for a week. My feet and legs had swollen so much they were getting painful and very tight I had said to the nurses on the ward they kept saying it’s not etc. the socks were digging into my skin and I could see a bit of blood and the swelling from my feet and legs were going out the part of the sock that was digging into me. I said to the staff again and ask them to look and if I could get bigger socks, they wouldn’t look and just said it’s normal.

After I had my baby I was up and down to Antrim EOU about 6 times with an infection on my c section, they weren’t very nice to me and me and my partner felt they were only nice when you're pregnant. They had given me antibiotics, which later I was told wasn’t to treat a c section infection but to treat a breast feeding infection in a breast. I was up again after the and they had said were reluctant to give you another antibiotic. In the end my gp sorted it with no help from Antrim. I’ve also asked nurses etc if I hadn’t of went to Antrim the Tuesday before I was due to have my baby would he be here? Every one of them just keeps saying at least he’s here.