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| - It's taken me 7 months to feel like I was emotionally strong enough to talk about my experience at Chandler Regional, that should tell you something about the care I got. I was in the hospital back in February to give birth to my daughter. I had taken the tour and asked all the questions that were important to me. I was assured that they were a baby friendly hospital and that my, very reasonable, requests would be able to be met. I wanted to be able to walk around during labor and do immediate skin to skin with my baby after birth, and not have an IV (a saline block fine, but no IV). None of those things actually happened.
I went in because my water broke but I wasn't having any contractions. I told them that I wanted to walk around, try and kickstart labor, they insisted that I stay in bed with a fetal monitor so they could monitor for contractions. No big shock, labor never started, probably because I was forced to LAY DOWN and not move. Then they wanted to induce, which I didn't want but was scared into it by the resident doctor who told me that I needed to have this baby in 24 hours or they'd be doing a c-section. So, that scared me and I consented to the induction. Which meant an IV.
Then my blood pressure shot up, even though it had never been a problem before. I believe this was also because I was being asked to lay down and not move, instead of being allowed to walk like I had wanted to. So then I had 2 IV meds and fluids and the blood pressure med made me feel so crappy that when I finally tried to get up to walk around I almost passed out.
I spent my labor confined to a bed, IVs sticking out of my arms, and my blood pressure being taken every 15 minutes....for 36 hours. The doctor then pressured me into an epidural that I didn't want, threatening me that they'd just give me general anesthesia for my c-section if I didn't. I felt like a sick person, not a person in labor. Most of my labor was spent sobbing and feeling miserable, and it had nothing to do with the pain. At one point I even asked if they could do something about the blood pressure cuff because my arm was red, raw and bruised and they did nothing. And I didn't get to hold my daughter until almost an hour after she was born.
I had one nurse who was amazing. If not for her I think I would have been bullied into a c-section that wasn't necessary. I was severely traumatized by giving birth at this "baby friendly" hospital. I felt like a passenger in my own care, I was just the incubator whose feelings and wants didn't matter. It was a horrible experience. I will never go back to this hospital. All of my problems were avoidable if I had been listened to instead of bullied.
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