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I am a student midwife
honeymaple · 16/11/2022 19:05
ElephantGrey101 · 16/11/2022 19:29
Can you explain what the criteria are for reduced movements and what it means if they are not met? This happened to me today. Fortunately they were met the second time round and I was allowed to go home but I don’t understand how bad it is and how would should be. She is moving now but hadn’t moved for 24 hours when I started to be monitored.
honeymaple · 16/11/2022 19:36
What happens when you can't provide 1-1 care?
I laboured in triage for 7 hours, most of which was back to back contractions, with zero pain relief, because they couldn't admit me because there was no midwife available to staff the room. I was admitted 6 minutes before my baby was born, was howling that I needed to push as they wheeled me down the corridor.
There was one midwife staffing the 6bed triage ward, alone, for 7+ hours. Every bed was full. She was an absolute superhero but it is a miracle nothing tragic happened.
I'm sorry that was your experience, it must've been absolutely awful.
You should have been offered pain relief, regardless of whether there was someone there to be 1-1 with you.
At our trust, midwives will be taken from other departments to go up and be with a labourer. If there aren't any to take, then it will be escalated to the community and an on call midwife will be asked to come in.
We have a midwife led birth centre, which often gets closed when there aren't enough midwives.
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