"Maternity Services"

Despite the Covid pandemic my care throughout my pregnancy was great until the day after I had my daughter. Despite my request to stay another night due to losing a lot of blood during my caesarean and feeling exhausted (I was not given a transfusion as my iron levels where good) I was told that my bed was needed as the Labour ward was busy and they had no where for the new mums to go so I had to leave. I had no choice in the matter. Patient choice went out of the window. Most of the staff on the ward where invaluable to me during my stay especially the midwife assistant, who was excellent and I was very grateful to have their assistance being a first time mum and needing guidance. Another staff member was clearly having a bad day... was snippy and impatient! When I was discharged I was not given a note of times I’d had my painkillers. This would have been very helpful. I requested co-codamol and ibuprofen as my discharge meds but was told I was to have Dihydrocodeine paracetamol and ibuprofen...again patient choice gone. The codeine caused me to be very constipated and pained and this could have been avoided.