"Maternity Triage"

Due to having a few complications during my pregnancy leading to reduced movements I turned to Maternity Triage for help and reassurance. I ended up having to attend the unit twice and both times I felt I received no support or proper reassurance. The first time I was put in the room and told to hold the monitors on my stomach for the duration of the time I was there which was almost 2 hours because the staff member couldn’t find my babies heartbeat for long enough and I got the impression they couldn’t be bothered to try, and left it to me to find. When the shifts changed over the second staff member sat with me until they were happy with the pattern that was being picked up. My second visit I was put on the monitor for almost an hour and once taken off it, I was handed the paper and told to go. I had previously made it clear as to how much pain I was in and not being able to focus on my babies movements. No advice given barely even spoken to from the midwives. A concerned high risk pregnancy patient and I simply get told “ you can go now”. It’s understandable that units are busy and with Covid wards can be short, but that’s no excuse for poor conduct of care towards expecting mothers. Midwives/Nurses are busy, but they should at least be taking time to speak to the patients that attend not just put them in a room leave them to it then send them home. Personally would have felt more at ease if things were discussed/explained. Completely different to when I had my first child.