"Very stern staff!"

A review of Princess Royal Maternity Hospital by Michaela written on Friday 7th of May 2010

Hi there, I am the proud mother of my little girl called Nieve. She was born March 7th 2009.

I'm sorry to worry any mums to be out there that will be giving birth at this hospital, but my experience wasn't great at all.

For a start off, I was induced - I went into the hospital on the Friday morning. A very nice doctor looked over me and said to be honest I could break your waters just now but the midwives were very strong and said oh no we don't do that straight away. What we do is give a pessary. So that was fine, I agreed and was given that. About five hours later, I was in tremendous pain and no one seemed to want to help me. At 12 midnight, I was in really bad pain with this pessary despite not being in labour yet. Despite there being no one else in the ward, my partner was told to leave by a stern midwife. All night, no one came to see me whatsoever and I got absolutely no sleep. In the morning a very nice male doctor came in again and provided a better shoulder to cry on than any midwife at the hospital.

At 12 noon on the saturday, I was taken to be induced by being hooked up to a drip (this was after complaining about the night before - I was left all alone in the ward with 4 midwives at the reception!)

The birth was fantastic, it lasted 5 hours - to be honest, it was much less painful than the pessary!

The birth was great, but afterwards I hemorraged. when I went to the ward, I felt that the midwives couldn't really be bothered with you. They seemed to make more of the mothers that were older - they got the most help I found.

The food was also shocking! And it seemed to be that the more qualified the person, the nicer they were. Doctors were so nice and understanding midwives were really stern and the domestic assistants were so increadibly stern. For example, I am really small and found that my baby's cot was quite high to change her in so I thought it was easier to change her on the bed. The midwife gave me into trouble in front of everyone and that I should change her in the cot, I explained its not very comfortable for me. So i did it this way from then on. But just before I was about to leave the hospital, the physiotherapist came to see me. She seen that i was struggling and she said 'don't you know that there are lower cots for smaller people?' I was so angry that the midwife who embarrased me in front of people, forgot to mention this.

I feel that I was treated disgustingly and so were other people - the lady across from me was breastfeeding her wee boy in bed but the domestic said to her 'put the baby in his cot' and she said i'm feeding him, the domestic said 'oh I thought you were going to go to sleep.' I thought to myself it's rediculous telling people what to do.

I was so fed up with the place that I actually discharged myself from the hospital on the Monday - most people gave the midwives a wee gift, I did't bother as they did nothing for me when I was in the hospital.

I simply wanted home instead of constantly being undermined and told what and what not to do. Giving advice is totally different from being ordered by someone - I always thought midwives were supposed to be caring as its one of the most life changing experiences, but they had no warmth or empathy at all.

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