It took fainting in hospital for NHS staff to help me after I gave birth - but I don't blame them ✍️ graceholliday
“trusts must immediately enable partners’ presence at in-hospital postnatal care so that mothers are never left without food and water, emotional support, access to a bathroom and help to lift and feed their baby.”
That night, without my partner, those things weren’t accessible, but I did what so many new mothers do- struggle, make do and put on a brave face. But I don’t resent the staff for being so absent, because I understood that I had stopped being a priority. I was no longer a high-risk pregnant woman, but a recovering new mum. And as McConville adds, theis “not all the impact of the Covid pandemic, but is directly associated with long-term underinvestment in the staffing of maternity services.
Once everyone was reassured they didn’t have a dead woman on their hands, the cubicle cleared out just as quickly as they’d arrived – except for a student midwife called Emily. My brave face fell away, I was shaken up, worried about my baby, worried that I’d damaged the wound that I’d been trying to heal quicker. “It’s ok to feel as tearful as you do,” she told me “close your eyes for a few minutes; I’ll watch your daughter.
The gentleness and compassion I received from my surgeon, anaesthetist, midwives and student midwives – especially Emily – will stay with me forever. Seventy one per cent of those surveyed by the CQC said they were always treated with kindness and understanding after the birth of their baby in hospital. Nobody was absent after my birth out of intentional neglect, but because another woman needed them more. I don’t feel like they failed me; I feel like the Government fails them, time and again.
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