Woman is wrongly told her baby has died in the womb

[TulipsInTheSunshine]

horrific

Makes you wonder how common a mistake it is which doesn't normally get picked up on

wasn't brave enough to click the link but how shocking

dear god

I was pregnant with ds1 and attending the same hospital as this woman at the same time

The same hospital told me I'd miscarried dd 18 months previously and only sent me for a scan to establish my need for a d&c... dd is 5 now. When i was pregnant with ds1 the obsterician was looking through my notes and said 'So you've had one pregnancy and one miscarriage'... turned out they'd filed it as a miscarriage never checked up on the scan results so never even knew they were wrong, to this day there's a miscarriage file in that hospital for my pregnancy with dd

Tulips you are lucky.

There are more and more women coming out now to say the same thing happened to them.
There were 2 women on Liveline today who were told by the Master of the Hospital not to cause a fuss as it would make things difficult for them (the women)

There are some people who will never know, sadly, who will be haunted by what-if's.

This is awful, I have two friends in totally different parts of the country who, when they were pregnant with their first children, were both told that their babies had died in the womb. I can't imagine just how distressing that must be. Both babies are now very healthy toddlers.

At 12 weeks, I was told I'd miscarried when I had experienced a bit of pain and spotting. A&E nurses took a urine test and said that if I had been pg I wasn't anymore and were ready to book me in for a D&C. I kicked up enough of a fuss to make them check again. I was very much pregnant. They had got my sample mixed up with someone else's - the nurse rather loudly realised she'd put the wrong label on the wrong bottle (apparently she thought the cubicle curtain was soundproofed or something when she told her colleague). She backtracked about that later, obviously.

How odd that they don't seem to have followed the normal procedure which would be to do a second scan more than a week later. Also is it normal practice to give someone the medication to take away. When I had my medically managed miscarriage they gave me the first pills on the premises and said they were not allowed to let me take them away to take at home.

When I had a missed miscarriage I had a scan, then another scan a week later, then a third scan just to make absolutely certain before they'd perform a D&C (and I think would have required the third scan before they prescribed me methotrexate too). It beggars belief that Cytotec can be handed out and a D&C scheduled on the basis of one cursory scan by someone who isn't even a specialist.

That's the Irish medical system for you... I've had to fight with more consultants, gp's and specialists for basic care than you can believe.

One consultant told me my son was fine, i was being neurotic and he wasn't tongue tied. I brought him to a different hospital and it's now very likely he's going to have surgery on his 'non existent' tongue tie

Doctors over here are extremely interventionist... one consultant dd is under wants to put her on medication for bed wetting... she's only 5. Another wanted to cauterise her nose for a third time despite the fact that she hadn't had a nose bleed since her second cauterisation 6 months previously

My heart breaks for all the women who accepted their doctors word they'd miscarried and must now be left wondering if they terminated a healthy pregnancy

That is just so awful but what a lovely babay and wonderful mum.

Something similar happened to me and my ds2 wouldn't be here now if some poor woman hadn't needed a caesarean and taken the doctor away from me.

I was given the drug to take home and come back for a ERPC 6 years ago in Dublin, after one scan in the emergency/triage part of the rotunda. No blood tests, nothing.
Being my 1st pregnancy I knew no better though and never asked for a second opinion.

runnybottom. I can't imagine what you must be feeling like right now. I hope you have someone who you can talk to and who'll give you a huge hug

I'm in the UK was told I'd had a mmc (a few years ago) but was never given a second scan just booked in for the D&C. I can't bare to think that foetus wasn't dead

Awful

I refused both medical and surgical management when I had MMC x 2 last year and opted for conservative management at home.

Main reason for refusing was I didnt want any more invasive treatments or examinations having gone through so much already, but it was also in the back of my mind "What if they are wrong?"

I think that will be at the back of the mind of every Irish woman who's told she's miscarried for the forseeable future due to the massive media coverage of these incidents.

As if losing a pregnancy isn't hard enough now those poor women are all going to have that hope that maybe they're one of the ones for whom the doctors are wrong. So many women are going to opt for natural management of miscarriage now and put themselves through even more pain, both physically and emotionally, in the hope that maybe the baby is still alive

I actually had nightmares last night. The chances are overwhelmingly that the diagnosis was correct, but the thought that you might have had a termination and not a m/c......