The title says it all.
The night before coming home I was up all night in hospital crying with pain after having taken pain relief. This was noted by the midwives.
Yet the next day I was discharged from hospital without as much as a single paracetamol. I asked several times about it, and was eventually told that as its so cheap to buy over the counter, the hospital is cutting costs.
This is St Mary's in Manchester. Otherwise, I had fantastic, round the clock care and support and the teams were excellent.
But sending a woman home, who has just given birth via major abdominal surgery, without any pain relief (at 6pm evening), with a newborn to look after is just criminal.
The community midwife that came to see me today said it has started happening only in the past few weeks, and they initially thought the hospital/staff were forgetting - but it was becoming more apparent now that it's just cost cutting. She suggested I tell the local press, which I will be doing.
I also wanted to raise awareness of this on mumsnet and ask other women to add similar experiences about such incidents.
I spent the night in pain of course - I think I must have overdosed myself with ibuprofen and a bad mixture of other odds and sods of pain killers I had in my kitchen drawer
This has to fit into an MN campaign somewhere, surely? It's just not right.
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Sent home from hospital after c-section without ANY analgesia
TeaJunky · 04/12/2012 13:54
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