I'm pregnant with my second and hoping to have this baby in a small midwife-led unit.
It's what I wanted last time but I ended up having to be induced. My labour and birth worked out fine considering but I attribute this to the wonderful midwife I got. During the course of my induction and time in the labour room, I encountered 3 midwives. One administered the second dose of prostaglandin. She was lovely.
The next one I saw broke my waters. I immeditaely disliked her. I didn't like her manner and I didn't like the way she handled me. I had two doses of prostaglandin administered by two other midwives without much pain but this horrible midwife really hurt me when she checked me internally. She was quite flippant in her manner and acted as though it was a full gone conclusion that I wouldn't continue in labour on my own and I'd need the syntocin (sp?)
Oh yes, and to top it off, she sent me back to the antenatal ward and forget to tell them I'd had AROM. I was in labour and didn't actually know it - and neither did anyone else until a nurse found me in excrutiating pain trying to be quiet behind my curtain on the shared antenatal ward!
I went back to the delivery room and that's probably when I got the painful internal. And then something wonderful happened. There was a shift change and I got the most fantastic midwife. A midwife who read my birthplan and made every effort to follow it.
Anyway - I digress. What I want to know is, if I end up having to have this baby in the hospital and I get assigned a horrible midwife, am I allowed to ask for a different one?
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If you don't like the midwife you're assigned at hospital can you request a change?
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Beatie · 19/02/2005 14:16
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