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Monday 9th Jun 2008 21:20:23
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Upon waking, I got A****** dressed and we had our breakfast. Then Pop came around and, whilst A****** and Pop were playing with A******'s new Bob the Builder 5-vehicle playset, I had to leave - back to Ward 17 to pick up M**** and R******. Not surprisingly, the promised (i.e. promised the previous day) early morning visitation of the paediatrician had not occurred. We were advised to wait for the paediatrician to check over R****** before leaving. By about midday, we were like, "Well, we're going anyway; we're sick of waiting," and I started moving bags to the car. R****** was obviously fine, was feeding fine and had filled his nappy several times with both urine and grey goo. Oddly, a few minutes later, the paediatrician mysteriously turned up, having finished with all those emergency cases and high priority things that had prevented a five minute check of R******. That's how long it took - five minutes. Not surprisingly, the paediatrician gave R****** the all-clear (I forgot to mention this yesterday: APGAR score of 10! Blimey. A****** was something like 2 or 3). So, we figured that was it. But no . . . then some midwife was like, "Erm, yeah . . . but you gotta wait for us to write all this stuff up now, 'cos like you need his red book thing and all his notes. You can't leave until we've done that." So I was like, "Can't I just come back later, pick it up then?" but I don't think this conversation was with a midwife, because the response was, "Well, paperwork doesn't take priority over babies and mothers. I'll have to get the midwife to speak to you. Give me a moment." Some midwife, Liz, then came over to see M**** (I don't think we, erm, had the chance to warm to Liz) and was like, "Yep. Okey dokey. Pick the notes up later then. Give us a ring before you set off," and away we went. Sad, really, given the fantastic job done by the staff throughout the labour/delivery. Their priorities seemed a bit out of kilter: we didn't need the paperwork done immediately - we just needed the paediatrician's all-clear (and, oddly, the woman opposite M**** got this very thing long, long before M****, this despite the woman explaining that she couldn't go anywhere until later on that night, when her partner had finished work).
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Comments received:
- Name: Rosie
- IP address: 91.107.206.3
- Date/time: Tuesday 10th June 2008 08:38:14
- Comment: sounds just like my experience; marvellous labour midwives, postnatal midwives/organisation sadly lacking. we did the whole "can we come back later" thing only for stuff to arrive just as we tried to leave etc!!
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