I had a good delivery of our baby number 2, a few complications (episiotomy etc) in theatre lead to baby and I being transferred to the High Dependancy Unit, whilst hubby was sent home at 2am in the morning. This is where my nightmare began, I asked for pain relief and a midwife (M1) gave me an epiduaral top up, I was also at this time aneamic, dizzy with low blood pressure and shaking with sleep deprivation (5 days slow labour).
she then about an hour later told me I was leaving and told me to get up and walk to a wheelchair and could I suck up my sanitary towel too as she did not want to clean up a red mess behind me. My senses were numb but I did as I was told as I trusted her judgement as my carer in this vulnerable state. My legs were jelly, I had no feeling (due to the epidural top up) and I fell onto the floor near the wheelchair(she was laughing at me when this happened)...I was then made to carry my baby and nearly dropped him too....thereafter followed a catalogue of abuse and errors to follow from 3 seperate midwifes resulting in no care for baby and my being left in a soiled bed of blood and urine for 4 hours.
It has taken me many months to come to terms with the trauma of what they did to us, i have finally summoned the courage to make a formal complaint and they (supervisors) have offered me a meeting, however M1 failed to take adequate notes and the hospital are denying that she gave me an epidural top up in HDU unit (according to the notes she completed) what do i do, it is my word against M1's and I feel this denial is adding insult to injury...why did she deliberatley numb my legs and want to watch me fall ??!! my worry is that this woman will continue to be let loose on other vulnerable mothers and may result in harm or even a fatality. Advice please?