Baby 2, waters broke at home, turned up and was told to take a seat in triage as there was a shortage of staff. After 2 minutes my second waters broke and were green (meconium) so taken in and strapped up to monitor. Was observed for 5 minutes then told there was a room ready upstairs. Arrived there to see it was dirty and like it hadn’t been cleaned since the last patient. After 5 minutes my contractions intensified so I asked my husband to get someone- he was told to wait. 10mins later I was ready to push so my mum ran out screaming for help as no one had still been in to see me or observe me. A midwife came running in and shoved her hand in during a contraction to check if I was dilated, 2 minutes later baby arrived. I bled massively and passed lots of clots and had 3 infections following the birth. I still have one now 7 weeks later. I had no pain relief and the midwife was extremely rough and non sympathetic (she seemed stressed) No one asked to see my birth plan, I didn’t get any pain relief and it was a traumatic labour because the hospital was short staffed. I was made to walk to recovery with blood dripping down my legs. I was then kept in for 3 nights as there were discrepancies in my notes. Because staff hadn’t kept good notes during my pregnancy there was lots of questions meaning Doctors wouldn’t discharge me. As a result my baby was given a blood test and anti biotics (which I refused to give him) unnecessarily as a later scan showed everything was fine. I also had shingles at the time of birth but when showing the Doctors they said it was a bite, luckily my newborn didn’t get chickenpox from it! Overall a really poor experience from north mid, they are clearly overstretched and understaffed and some undertrained and unable to be consistent. Such a shame as my first experience was amazing. Won’t be recommending.
"Maternity disaster"
About: North Middlesex Hospital / Maternity care North Middlesex Hospital Maternity care N18 1QX
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