Angry At NSW Health After Ectopic

I was amazed when I was placed in the maternity ward of our local public hospital to recover after surgery for an ectopic pregnancy.

I found my treatment in this ward to be sub-standard both physically and emotionally and have heard similar stories from other grieving families.

My surgical wound was left unchecked and I was given no advice on wound care resulting in me being readmitted a week after discharge with an oozing infection.

The manner of the specialist towards me was cool at best, being told that I was scheduled for emergency surgery then laying in the operating suite for well over half an hour while the specialist was in a meeting was frightening at the time and infuriating in hindsight. My little one was never referred to gently or as a human being, my bubby was "the mass" and "it".

I'm not nurse bashing, I think that they do wonderful work, are under paid and under resourced but I feel that if hospitals are going to place women who have just lost babies into maternity wards to RECOVER then they need a member of staff trained in the needs and concerns of these women in attendance. Don't they realise that the sound of crying babies is heartbreaking torture to a woman who will never meet hers.

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