I have requested my birth notes to fully understand what happened during my labour and birth.
While giving birth to my son I had a qualified midwife looking after me but also a student midwife shadowing her who I later found out had only delivered 4 babies under supervision.
2 incidents happens while giving birth and I feel it was due to lack of supervision of the student midwife that these occurred.
Firstly, I was left with a 2nd degree tear which has left me in some pain. This happened when the qualified midwife left the room to get equipment after Informing me I needed an episiotomy.
While she was away the student midwife told me to continue to push during my contraction and as I had an epidural I was unaware that I was tearing.
When the senior midwife returned she said I had torn badly. She looked very annoyed with the student but didn't say anything in my presence.
As a result of the tear, I lost a lot of blood and my heart rate was sky high. I had to remain in hospital longer than expected while they tried to stabilise my heart rate.
Secondly, as I had an epidural, I also had a catheter. After birth, still numb from the epidural, the student midwife was asked to remove my catheter and did so with the balloon still inflated and intact, hence pulling it through my urethra and I believe causing damage and trauma.
Again the midwife didn't say anything in my presence but looked very shocked.
How do I go about asking more about these incident to be explained and I investigated and why it was allowed to happen?
Has anyone else experience anything like this?