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When I joined the maternity services 11 years ago I started on postnatal ward as a Maternity Support Worker with dreams of becoming a midwife. An MSW is similar to a healthcare assistant, but on the maternity unit. Having never worked in a medical setting before, and given that there is very little training for MSWs, I set about gleaning as much as I could from the Doctors and Midwives around me.
If a labour stalls, or contractions stop, the patient is told they have ‘failed to progress’. If an induction does not end with a patient being in labour, they have had a ‘failed induction’. Not only is giving birth a huge physical undertaking it is also hugely emotional. Meeting your baby for the first time should be one of the most magical experiences in a persons life - and absolutely not the time that anyone should be labelled a failure.
I was a ‘poor responder’ to IVF treatment, when I did not grow an appropriate number of follicles. I had a ‘late miscarriage’ - implying that I was not even able to miscarry within a normal timeframe - despite the birth of my sons in no way resembling the heavy period notion we are told is a miscarriage. I had ‘incompetent cervix’ when it was discovered that my cervix was the reason that I went into very premature labour.
Language, both written and spoken is unique to the humans, and yet medicine seems to forget that language has the power to build up and empower, and at the same time to tear down.
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