Bad experience with Leicester Royal moved to Leicester General..... :( Am i over reacting??

[SavannahRose]

Hi

Well basically last Thursday morning (currently 27+5) i got up out of bed and a MASSIVE gush of water come out...followed by trickling so got my pj's on and rushed into the LRI.
I went straight on to delivery as i was experiencing pains and was put in a room at 7.30 am and left until 2.30 with no one coming to see me at all!!!!

I was then admitted and put onto a ward where i was placed in a bed and left untio 10pm thursday night when all they did was check my blood pressure....
Friday - No one came to see me ALL DAY. Saturday - Doc came round in the morning said they couldnt do anything until they scanned me and they dont scan at the weekend due to no sonographers being in and discharged me!!!! I was VERY shocked to be going home, all i was thinking was how is my baby is it ok? Was told they would call me 8am Monday to arrange for me to go back in. Well, to this exact minute......heard nothing. So being a Bupa member arranged for a private scan to check Fluid level and baby and scan showed some fluid loss but not a huge amount. Been to the mid wife this morning baby's head is 1/5 down but have been told not to worry as could stay that way until labour starts doesnt mean she will come early or anything. I then asked my mid-wife if after my brilliant experience at the Royal if i could move to the general. Now i'm thinking am i over reacting? Are they going to think i'm moaning over nothing???

Was going insane not knowing if my baby was ok. Been told i have a irritable utarus....?? which is causing the pain plus the baby's head being so low down isnt helping

that is SHOCKING and not only would I insist on going to the Royal, I would be putting a complaint in. If nothing was serious, then someone should have come and TOLD you nothing was serious. Kick of, create a stink, I would!

I had my babies at the General, and although very very busy, the care is there.

So at no time did they hook you up to a ctg? Or even listen in with a hand held doppler/sonicaid? That would seem very shoddy indeed.

I would have thought they would want to establish if your water has indeed gone due to the risk of infection. I know the water can replenish, but ultimately if the sterile 'seal' around the baby has gone it needs monitoring.

Are you still losing fluid?

Still loosing some fluid but seen my midwife today and she confirmed baby was so low down that it could be pressing pushing fluid out as fluid levels increase in pregnancy.
No - nothing at the royal :( there was a woman in active labour opposite me on a ward not delivery and she came in at 4.30am and by 3pm the next day NO ONE had been to see her!!!! I was mortified!!!

Did they not listen in to baby's FH or do a speculum to see if it was your waters that had gone?

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Thats very bad.

Have they confirmed that your waters have gone?

If you're losing fluid and its definetly amniotic fluid then that means your membranes have ruptured regardless of what the fluid levels are. Are you on antibiotics?

no waters havent gone thank god!! just been told to take it easy from now

My experience at the Royal was similar. Nightmare birth with DS1 and then when I had bleeding at 28 weeks with DS2, I was stuck in a side room on the labour ward all day...hardly seen at all during that time. It was ages before they even sent a midwife to me, only for her to say that the doctors were all busy so I would have to keep waiting. Not very reassuring.

I have heard better things about the general (not practical for me to get there though so I didn't switch). If you want to switch then do. It's not for the HCPs to judge whether or not you are overreacting - you're not BTW - it is is your right to do it.

How are they sure that your waters haven't gone? Did you give them a pad with the fluid you were leaking on so they could test it?

Of course, it's perfectly possible you're leaking urine but they'd need to do a quick, simple (and cheap!) test with litmus strips to know

OP, you are not overreacting. I would be wild with anger and not only would I change hospitals as you have done, I'd be putting in a formal complaint and possibly writing to my MP and whoever else I could think of. Maybe I would be overreacting doing all that, but I can tell you I would do it anyway. I am HORRIFIED at your story.

had all tests done at bupa did a internal :)

Ok so if your waters haven't gone you're not losing fluid but have increased discharge?

Had they confirmed that it wasn't your waters before they left you for 7 hours. If so I can understand that more.

nope wasnt told anything until saturday morning

Well firstly I'd be complaining and wanting to know why you were left so long without being checked. If they couldn't convince me it was a total one off/terrible mistake I'd be moving hospital.