My birthing experience at Bunbury hospital is far from a good one. To say both me and my husband left feeling traumatised would be the understatement of the century. Not to mention the physical harm my child endured during the use of forceps done by a student dr, whilst the head dr observed instead of intervening after they attempted to lock the forceps onto my child’s head 4 times before success, causing them a permanent scar on their nose that they will have for life and bruising and cuts that were with them for their first weeks of life. After birth my baby struggled to open their eye.
It’s a dire shame on this hospital. Frankly I’d love to take further action but I am simply not equipped to give any of my time to this as it will bring up so much pain for our family and my child doesn’t deserve to have that mental capacity taken from his parents.
2 years on we are still saddened to think back on our treatment. The way we felt we were treated like cattle, dismissed, ignored, rushed, watched, and violated.
I was a victim of the dreaded shift change birth. However, there is light in our story thanks to ONE nurse/midwife, and that is none other than Emma. She was our midwife during my induction and labour up until an hour before my baby's birth. She is our saving grace. She held me, physically and mentally during my labour. She was loving, kind, and supportive. She listened. And she made me feel heard. There is not one thing I’d change about those hours I’d spent with her during labour. In fact, I’d urge every other staff member that is a midwife or alike and even the Drs!, that works on this ward to take notes on her professionalism, and character, as frankly, she is the only thing good about Bunbury maternity ward in my opinion.
I was unlucky in that Emma’s shift has finished and she wasn’t there for when things got messy when my child’s birth was prominent. When she left (at no fault of her own) the whole trajectory of our experience took a sad turn. We went from feeling all things rainbows and sunshine in turns of treatment, from Emma, feeling like we were cattle in the slaughter house, being pressured, watched, poked and prodded and rushed. It was utterly inhumane how other staff treated us in those last hours of birth once Emma left in my opinion.
The treatment I received from Emma is what saved me mentally, whilst other members of staff made me feel violated, dismissed, and minimised in my experience to the greatest degree.
For that, I will never ever forgive Bunbury Hospital for their failure, however I will always be grateful to Emma, and hope with all my being that she is recognised for her work in holding up the fort, and setting a incredible example of how it should be done. I believe Bunbury hospital better count their darn blessings to have her as an employee.
"Birthing experience in Maternity Ward."
About: Bunbury Hospital / Maternity Bunbury Hospital Maternity Bunbury 6230
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