Birth Trauma

Ignored Gallstones

Thank you for allowing women and people affected by mistreatment to have a voice and share their stories here. It’s taken me a few days to collect my thoughts but I have a couple. Since 19 weeks I started suffering with severe upper abdominal pain to the point where I would pretty much pass out, …

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Ignored With Twins

I have an experience to share from my recent vaginal delivery of twins (babies number 3&4, previous two labours were vaginal, one of which was forceps and shoulder dystocia). I was admitted to the antenatal ward with ruptured membranes at 35 weeks with mcda twins, following a short stay my waters went naturally and I …

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Free Bikini Wax

I’ve been reading all the posts since I found your Facebook page and I feel so angry at what women are subjected to at one of the most vulnerable times of their life- bullying, coercion, gaslighting and downright, blatant abuse. I certainly experienced some of this during my traumatic failed inductions, resulting in an emergency …

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Made Fun Of

I was a student midwife at the end of my second year, I had delivered many babies and done many placement hours. It was my first baby and I laboured at home no problem for 10 hours. My waters broke and I started involuntary pushing at home, my husband called an ambulance because there was …

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Called My Husband

I was then sent straight to see a consultant and threatened that I had to have a GTT and when I politely declined, I was told that I was risking my baby being still born.

Clear Racism

With my first child (who is now 3) the community midwife measured me incorrectly for weeks in my final trimester, I had preclampsia and my blood pressure shot up. During week 37 they admitted me to the hospital and I had a doctor come in and look at me saying “OH MY GOD! For a …

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