I have written a story down today, more like a timeline of my experiences at Toowoomba Base Hospital. In reading it I ponder if I had a different experience that wasn’t traumatic or unproductive would I be more successful. What has trauma done? I read it back and I thought what did this trauma do to me? How has it had a influence on my life that I don’t even realise. I look back and I know if procedures were followed, being listened to by staff, adhereation to guidelines maybe there would have been a better outcome in the end. With my first I was so traumatised I wouldn’t even go near my baby in special care. They told me he might have a disability. It scared the $hit out of me as a first time mum. I almost lost my life from blood loss that I felt according to guidelines it was unavoidable and overlooked. Vitamin K is important as a supplement to avoid blood loss when you are taking ursodeoxycholic acid for obstetriccholestasis a rare liver condition in pregnancy.
They had to send a specialist attachment nurse out to my home to ‘help me with attachment’. That’s really not me. I’m a loving mum with a strong maternal instinct. I felt like a stunned mullet.
Toowoomba Base Hospital Meternity Unit 