Libranaster
03-05-2007, 02:54 AM
Ok I know that some women just love mid wives but where I am I have some issues. I had both my kids at the Calvary Hospital in Tasmania and I thought my experience with my daughter would be one off till I went in there with my son. I have never met such a lazy useless lot in all my life. The mid wives there need treatment there has to be something wrong with them. For starters the mid wives are lazy they don't want to go out of their own way. My first child was very jaundice and had to go under the uv lights well one night the nurse shoves the uv thingy with my daughter in it in my room with me now I can't sleep if there is light in the room, my room has to be pitch black so needless to say I got no sleep. When the baby blues set in I was so upset and crying and just wanted to go home because the nurse wouldn't take her back to the nursery because quote "they were bogged down looking after women who had cesaereans. I can appreciate these women need care but them leaving me with my daughter caused me to suffer with post natal depression and its not like she was a bad baby that didn't sleep. Also they never consulted me about whether I wanted to breast feed they gave her formula straight away and due to that my breast milk could not fulfill her so I missed out on that experience with her. These were few of but a number of issues they caused when I had my daughter. Now with my son I bled out half my blood supply which made me feel very sick not only that I was very bruised and sore. On the second night I was in hospital it really hit me and I was exhausted and my son wouldn't stop crying he had been fed and changed and burped and cuddled but he wouldn't settle. All I wanted was a chance to get a little sleep as I was very sore and tired but no. I asked the nurse to take him to the nursery and once again the excuse was they were bogged down with women who had cesaereans. Well needless to say that pissed me off. I was very sick and extreamly sore and just wanted some rest and I can't sleep during the day due to the whole light thing. I wish I could have gotten up I would have killed her. Due to being trapped in a room for three days with a screaming baby this time my post natal depression was 10 times worse than with my daughter. My partner lost his job because he had to stay home and take care of me, I missed out on the most important time of my children's lives I will never get a chance to enjoy having a baby. That isn't fair on me. So if any one here lives in Tasmania I suggest you don't go to the Calvary hospital to have a baby because if you have a natural birth they wont have time for you.