My first birth was a horror story. I planned a peacefull home water birth. My waters broke no labour progressed. I presented at my local hospital for fear of infection to my baby. I was give 2 peccaries to induce my labour. There was no fluid around my baby. I endured an exruciating 8 hour labour before receiving the Epidural I had begged for many times. The contractions were on top of each other and i felt like i was being ripped up inside. I was fobbed off with many excuses untill my husband got heavy about the Epidural. It was administered incorrectly, my leg involuntery shot up in the air. The Anestatist shouted at me and left the room. I spent 4 hours in agony telling all staff that entered the room that the Epidural was in wrong. I was ingnored. My husband tracked down the Anestatist having a joke and a laugh with a nurse and had string words. He immediately came and corrected the Epidural. The pain went. After another 2 hours i was fully diallated, but my daughter was not decending. Ti was then that i signed for an emergency C-section. It was proved on the operating table that my pelvis was too small to deliver. My daughter's heartbeat had dropped dramitacally and I beleived that she nearly died. As my feet are size 5 it was assumed that my pelvis was fine! My daughter was ok when she was born, but I started to experience increasing pain whilst open on the operating table. I could not have any more drugs, so finished off on gas and air when I was being put back together and stitched up. My uterous was on the side when I was experiencing this pain, I was told this by staff as i had lost so much blood. My husband and I became very scared and my husband was tricked out of the operating theatre. After that the aftercare by midwives was horrendous. I was insulted, bullied and manhandled. I also had another C-section 2 years after with my son, planned this time. The spinal and epidural aggrevated my condition of sciatica that I had been left with after the first incorrectly inserted epidural. I ahd back spasms and could not handle my baby safely. Dispite this I was again treated badly. i was treated as if i was lazy. Manhandled out of bed when i was not ready, this is assult. I was left in my own mess for 24 hours, as my catheter was not emptied dispite me telling staff that it was full. It overflowed onto the bed twice. My pad was also left. i was lying in blood and urine for 24 hours as nobody had time to change the bed. I will not have any more children. i have been traumatised by all of this and cannot forget it.