Post-natal experience at Kings College Hosp?

[froglegs]

By froglegs Fri 11-Dec-09 16:43:19
Hello
I was just wondering what people's post-natal experience at Kings College Hosp was like?
I had my baby a few weeks ago and feel quiet upset by my experience there. I wanted to know if it was just by bad luck or a common thing?

I wont go into much detail here as it would be a very long post! but to sum up I come out ( after pretty much begging to be discharged) feeling bullied, fightened, helpless, degraded - not to mention having a nasty infection.

Weeks on I can't stop thinking about it and I am sure it has contributed to my PND. I have been advised to write to the person in charge to try and help me get over it and to maybe stop it happening again.

I should add that my labour and antenatal care was fairly good and i saw some lovely midwives during my post-natal home visits.

Has anyone get any stories to share?

(ps i don't want to scare anyone who is due to have a baby there, i am hoping my experience was a one off!)

Hi Froglegs,

I think a lot of us will prob have upsetting stories to tell about being in hosp during labour etc.

It does seem that the before part is good in most places then after you've had babe you're just left to get on with it basically (as I was in King's).

I've had three at King's (the first two were very quick (within 2 hour) births and I said never again because of the aftercare (was out within a couple of days but looking back was probably suffering a bit of PND).

My third child was born at King's (she will be 12 in October) and I ended up being discharged the next day (although complaining with pain in my thigh, which turned out to be a blood clot, which went to my lung) and i had to spend the next 7 days in a mixed ward while my mum had my baby.

Thankfully, it was just one of those one in a 100,000 things we get in pregnancy but at the time I was quite down.

Looking back, I remember asking to see my notes etc. to try to make sense of things but now 12 years down the line I do try to forget about it!

Hi Froglegs,

I think a lot of us will prob have upsetting stories to tell about being in hosp during labour etc.

It does seem that the before part is good in most places then after you've had babe you're just left to get on with it basically (as I was in King's).

I've had three at King's (the first two were very quick (within 2 hour) births and I said never again because of the aftercare (was out within a couple of days but looking back was probably suffering a bit of PND).

My third child was born at King's (she will be 12 in October) and I ended up being discharged the next day (although complaining with pain in my thigh, which turned out to be a blood clot, which went to my lung) and i had to spend the next 7 days in a mixed ward while my mum had my baby.

Thankfully, it was just one of those one in a 100,000 things we get in pregnancy but at the time I was quite down.

Looking back, I remember asking to see my notes etc. to try to make sense of things but now 12 years down the line I do try to forget about it!