"The maternity assessment unit let me down"

The maternity assessment unit let me down and I believe their mistakes caused my still birth at 41 weeks of a healthy pregnancy.

They failed to bring me in despite me telling them my temperature was low, they should have recognised this as a sign of sepsis. I later went in to septic shock and am lucky to be alive. I’m told the midwife team are trained on recognising low temperature as a sign of sepsis, however have also been told that the two midwives I spoke to clearly made a mistake.

There were also other failures in my care, too many to list here unfortunately. The hospital has admitted this through the investigation. I'm promised that improvements will be made however we will have to see. My consultant was brilliant, but I have to be honest and write this post.

It would be hard for me to rely on the midwives here after my experience, at least not when calling the maternity assessment unit. The phone line seems to not be managed or monitored very well and in my experience it seems too easy for mistakes to be made and incorrect advice to be given, then the hospital to apologise later for something as huge as a stillbirth, and events that could have been life-threatening.