“I suffered, my newborn suffered, and because I couldn't breastfeed properly after this experience I suffered mentally for months over the guilt of what happened to my baby and my inability to breastfeed. If we were just given the chance to offer him a formula feed at the hospital to see if that satisfied him it would have made a world of a difference and it would have saved me from all the anxiety and sleep that I lost trying to feed my baby constantly. But because this hospital promoted breastfeeding they are against supplementing, breastfed is not what's always best, a baby should be fed and they should have helped ensure that even if that means offering formula.”
“At one point I asked her if I could go in shower but she said no because the monitors weren’t waterproof. The nurse that came in later said I could because they were waterproof... I was surprised again by this misinformation. I didn’t use the shower because by that point I was nearing pushing and had had an epidural. The OB team switched over and so did my midwife team. My midwife checked my cervix once and the OB did so the times after that. The OB was exceptionally rough with my cervix to the point where I asked her to take it easy because she was hurting me. Nothing changed and hours later during one of her last checks she said, “I was going to open your cervix and inch or two but didn’t because I didn’t think you’d like it”. Damn straight I wouldn’t have liked it! What happened to consent?”
