women are their own worse enemies on the maternity ward

[katz]

ok a mail article but it is interesting here

dizzy

Six whole weeks of research.
Whilst being a patient herself.
She must know absolutely everything about the system then.

And how very entrepreneurial of her.
I wonder if her fellow patients knew she was spying on them and using their experiences in order to earn cash?

lol boco!

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bloody...
eastern europeans
middle class women
smokers
selfish newborns
woman forgetting her nightgown (i wonder how much the journo can remember after having her ds)

was there anyone she didn't insult?

quite boco. all women apart from her obviously.

Funnily enough, for a card-carrying facile journalism hater, I think there is a kernel of something worth saying here. But what's worth saying is - a maternity ward is a high-pressure, one-off- (or few-off) experience situation, and completely logically people aren't going to know how to behave, are they? And superiorly expecting them to know that is just silly.

SO what you need is enough staffing and support for that situation to be managed, with common sense and anticipation. What I am saying, and I am very surprised this article didn't say it, is Bring Back Matrons.

thank goodness she was there - how would the midwives have coped without her valuable input

its NOT perfect, we're all fully aware but I don't think its as simple as black and white

now someone phone her and get the names of those problematic woman so we can have them sterilised and not allow them to RUIN the NHS again, damn cheek of them

in her opinion - not mine

although... those fucking television sets. i had dd when the strictly come dancing/x factor finals were on and wanted to kill myself. WHY wouldn't people use the headphones? seriously. one woman kept her telly on ALL THE TIME, even during visiting. really loud and she wasn't watching it. stupid inconsiderate mare.
you know the hospital doesn't get the revenue from those blooming things? nor the phones.

The article is actually a common saying in disguise:

Work would be so much easier if it weren't for the bloody customers.
And hospitals so much more pleasant without the flipping patients.

a well known saying disguised as 'fking women and foreigners ruin it for everyone!'

my best birth/labour was the one where I stuck to my guns and got what I wanted. (completely against medical "advice").

lol @ DaddyJ and Boco

although when I was in having dd2 staff had to phone the police for girl in bay next to mine as a huge barney errupted - I was horrified obviously, sitting there with my surgical stockings on/bag of pee hanging next to bed looking like had been hit by train - it was MY shift and all the cops I knew came running past - I nearly died

lets blame the mums then for not enough cleaners. Would be better if everyone had their own rooms.

After delivering DS1 with forceps and having an episiotomy and stiches, I really didn't want pain relief in the form of a pessary up my bottom, which they were offering.

So instead I asked to take paracetamol orally. The nurse actually tutted at me. I really must be my own worse enemy

god meemar at least you got asked! mine was just thrown up there without any prior knowledge from me!! then again I wouldn't have cared a jot by that point

My friend had a bath, immediately after delivery, and was given stuff by the midwives to clean it after herself!! She'd just had a traumatic birth, and there she was scrubbing the bath!

Jooly, you are kidding, right?? I had a shower the day after my emergency c-section, and was mortified at the mess in the bathroom. The midwife came to see if I was alright, and I apologised for not being able to bend down to clean up. She was so lovely, and just laughed and said 'No, I do that for you!'

So it was my terrible diet that caused my pre-eclampsia in my last 2 pregnancies.....right....what is this woman on?

I kid you not!! I was gobsmacked when she told me!! Mind you, I did bring my flash wipes into hospital with me!

what a vile hateful article

Oh God, I was going to draft a carefully enraged "she is talking crap here, here, and here" response, but it's really not worth dignifying with one, is it?!

I got a cs scar infection and I didn't have a single takeaway. What a swizz

I discharged myself (too) early 36 hours after a cs due to inadequate post-natal care and strict visiting hours that barred me from drafting dh in to make up the shortfall. I deserve a medal for saving other mothers from my bilious presence.