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I suggest tjhat you allow her to be angry and to vent her pain and
her anger towards those who caused it. Support her in
complaining to the hospital and insisting upon answers as lame as they
may be. If she were to ask why was the induction needed? Was
the baby in distress (at the time of the first insertion of gel - a
horrible substance called prostin made from Pig seamen.
Lovely!) Was her placenta failing? What was the indication
that at 10 days over she needed to be induced anyway?
Then once they have wormed out of that she should ask for
explanations as to why all of the intervention and what caused it and
why was it all needed.
Give her lots of love and support to do this as nothing will change
and it will keep happening unless women are encouraged to complain and
conplain and complain!
Even if she personally gets little satisfaction fron the complaint
it is just one more brick to add - eventually we will built a wall to
protect women from this - brick by brick.
You need to complain first to the registra at the hospital but at
the same time go directly to the medical practitioners board and make
sure it outlines that the initial induction was not called for and the
following intervention could have been avoided. Also any poor
bedside manner should be outlines clearly if they were rude to her which
it seems they were not supportive and gentle from your
description.
I wish her love and luck in her recovery - if she needs someone to
talk to you are welcome to give her my email.
The problem is this happens every day and it is not looked at as
torture or as something that needs to be changed. The only way it
will be seen as a problem is if they are inundated with complaints about
this sort of thing.
Luv
Rhonda.
I am so angry for her - it just shpuld not happen and make sure she
knows she is right to be upset because it is not a fault with her body
and it is not that it just happens - it should not have happened to
her. Make sure she knows why it was not necessary and why it
should not have happened.
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Date: Thursday,
November 07, 2002 14:44:32
Subject: Re:
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Whew, Rhonda.
I heard this morning from a friend about a friend of hers, aged 19,
whose baby was 10 days late; ob insisted on inducing with gel, nothing
much happening, into hosp., more drugs, foetal monitoring, on her back,
strapped down to bed, more drugs, epidural, more of same, enormous
episiotomy, cut artery, blood gushing in spurts, vacuum to head, two big
men hauling as though it was a tug-of-war, massive lump on baby's head
accompanied by ring of scars, she's stitched up, off her face, baby
won't wake up, won't feed, she's being pumped every six hours for milk
which they're somehow force feeding to baby. but hey, at least she's ok
and the baby's ok, they tell her, and she repeats as she recovers from
her torture. Yes, it's happening under our noses. In Adelaide, November,
2002.
...and I'm screaming inside for women and children...who are our
future.
Aviva
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Well Megan,
I guess the only way to really understand is this..
I can honestly and acceptingly say (as I cannot change what
has happened and I have dealt with it in my own way)
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