I believe also with others that Tim Nicholls the heath minister is heartless. I plead with him to consider what myself and other women endured. Not being listened too and trauma. I didn’t feel my experience was conducive to being comfortable making formal complaints to the hospital. I know myself I felt like there wasn’t any point and there was a problem at Toowoomba Base Maternity Unit from the top down. I had this belief because I had once during one of my births activated Ryan’s rule and the agreed rectification wasn’t followed. In respect to Ryan’s parents I am discussed with this. They are pioneers that experienced unbearable grief and wanted better, like myself through this endeavour.
I can’t write everything at once because I’m a busy mum and hard blue collar worker. What I have written is a prelude to my individual births and long history with negative experiences with Toowoomba base hospital.
Ok..so! There was my first experience with Toowoomba base hospital with my first born son which I will later go into detail about.
After this birth with my 1st pregnancy it set a president one where I was terrified that I would have to go there with no private health but desired more children.
I had always had a strong desire to have children. I love kids! I came from a small family. I only had 1 younger brother. I had found I had a strong and uncanny maternal instinct which overcome any previous trauma I’d had. I wanted a big family as a woman so much.
I have been pregnant 3 times after my first born. I can barely describe my joy after no. 1. Seeing 2 lines. Then I got further to 12 weeks on and was excited to tell others. I guess then the dread shadowed my joy. At that time in pregnancy is usually the first appointment with the Toowoomba Base Hospital. I would describe this experience after my experience with my first birth like facing the opening credits of underbelly razor ‘it’s a jungle out there’. I had concerns and no idea the outcome. After my first experience I didn’t know if bub or I would be OK.
My first pregnancy turned high risk. From then on they all were due to my conditions and likelihood of that being repeated.
I had unfortunately been assigned dr Kassarb with my first birth of my son. I had asked with the pregnancy of my daughter, 2nd, if I could possibly change obstetrician and was told ‘no’.
I have had a long history with Mr Kassarb since my first child and by my forth which I was constantly assigned him as a Dr. His bedside manner became absolutely atrocious in the end. When discussing a tubal ligation my husband and I were told something along the lines of from memory, ‘please don’t come back we don’t need complicated patients like you’.
I had appeared in a courier mail recently about my 4th borns experience. My experiences and what I have to say goes back many years from my 4th born this is the tip of the iceberg.
I am truly discussed that Toowoomba base hospital have tried to avoid the heat through saying the mums that come forward have mental health issues.
It’s 2026 and the general population believe that we live in a progressive society. What is to consider…….maybe we once had mental health issues but were medicated and made progress in life. We developed better coping mechanisms. Did mums become ill only after their experiences at Toowoomba base hospital maternity unit. These are the questions and in 2026 to pass off serious allegations as a mental health issues is outrageously barbaric.
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