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adelc23
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What is the name of your state? minnesota
i delivered my son at 22 weeks and he didnt make it. i feel it was due to lack of communication between doctors and due to not receiving the care i should have as being single, young, pregnant woman. i am seeking advice legally and personally from who ever will take the time to read about my experience. THANK YOU!
Basiclly in Febuary 2002 i became pregnant, which i expected to be a good thing cause i already had a 4yr old daughter with no problems. i started having problems around 12 wks, i started to bleed, i went to the local hospital (which was the hospital i chose to deliver the baby when i was term) emergency room for care, they told me i could not see any doctors or nurses in labor & delivery until i was 20 weeks. my 1st visit to the ER the couldn't tell me anything only that i could be in the early stages of misscarrying, but the ultrasound and baby heart monitor showed the baby seemed to be okay. about 5 wks passed and i started to bleed again, still had to go to the ER for care, same result baby seemed fine and nothing abnormal for me other than the bleeding, my 3rd visit to the ER was 1 week later, same thing again no answer way i was bleeding. my 4th visit to the hospital was when i was 21 wks. in that 2wks that passed i seen the ob/gyn specialists, 3rd utrasound done and saw my midwife, i was finally told i had a complete placenta previa, where my placenta was covering my cervix, which is not normal it usually attaches to the side of the uterus, but they acted like not anything to worry about until i was term and would have to have a c-section, which was fine as long as the baby was healthy, i was told to avoid any heavy lifting or sex, which i did. on my 4th visit i was sent home by labor & delivery after being monitored for a few hours no special instructions just no lifting or sex. i was back 3 days later for the 5th time of having very abnormal bleeding, i was gonna get sent home by a doctor once again but a nurse from the time befor that saw me and said no way your staying, so i did. i was put on strictly bedrest but this time the bleeding didnt stop. basicly i was monitored every hour or so, but not the baby's heartbeat they didnt take the time to put it on correctly to be recorded on paper, but i still felt him moving around. late evening i started contracting and bleeding even worse, i had asked the nurse if they were going to check me to see if i was dialating, she says no not at this time (?). i was given a shot to stop the contractions and a shot for pain, it helped for a few hours then started to get bad again, i was then given a second set of shots, those didnt help as well as the first set but i was given some pills to help me sleep too. i was wakend by contractions, i called the nurse in to tell her they were getting worse, i had her check the fetal tones, my baby still had a strong heartbeat. about an hour later i called he nurse in again to assist me with the bed pan, i felt like i had to have bowel, i pushed once and told her i think i passed another large bloodclot, cause i was passing bloodclots all evning, she checked and it wasnt a bloodclot, it was my little 14oz. son that i delivered into a bed pan, there were no doctors in my room when it happened, and they nurse told me he was dead. all the doctors could tell me that they were sorry and didnt expect me to deliver him. my son was very much alive no more than an hour befor he came out. i was never vaginally checked for dialation. there was nothing done to my son to see if he could be revived and have a chance to make it. they said he was to little to make it. i beg to differ, many women i know, know someone whose baby's have made it at that early stage but my son wasnt even given the chance. the unfit care i recieved during the 8wks of on and off bleeding could have been done well different and my son might be here now.
am i in the wrong to feel this way, or was i really not given the amount of professional care my child and i needed? can i do anything legally? not only have i lost my child but i am really having a hard time recovering from it mentally.
i delivered my son at 22 weeks and he didnt make it. i feel it was due to lack of communication between doctors and due to not receiving the care i should have as being single, young, pregnant woman. i am seeking advice legally and personally from who ever will take the time to read about my experience. THANK YOU!
Basiclly in Febuary 2002 i became pregnant, which i expected to be a good thing cause i already had a 4yr old daughter with no problems. i started having problems around 12 wks, i started to bleed, i went to the local hospital (which was the hospital i chose to deliver the baby when i was term) emergency room for care, they told me i could not see any doctors or nurses in labor & delivery until i was 20 weeks. my 1st visit to the ER the couldn't tell me anything only that i could be in the early stages of misscarrying, but the ultrasound and baby heart monitor showed the baby seemed to be okay. about 5 wks passed and i started to bleed again, still had to go to the ER for care, same result baby seemed fine and nothing abnormal for me other than the bleeding, my 3rd visit to the ER was 1 week later, same thing again no answer way i was bleeding. my 4th visit to the hospital was when i was 21 wks. in that 2wks that passed i seen the ob/gyn specialists, 3rd utrasound done and saw my midwife, i was finally told i had a complete placenta previa, where my placenta was covering my cervix, which is not normal it usually attaches to the side of the uterus, but they acted like not anything to worry about until i was term and would have to have a c-section, which was fine as long as the baby was healthy, i was told to avoid any heavy lifting or sex, which i did. on my 4th visit i was sent home by labor & delivery after being monitored for a few hours no special instructions just no lifting or sex. i was back 3 days later for the 5th time of having very abnormal bleeding, i was gonna get sent home by a doctor once again but a nurse from the time befor that saw me and said no way your staying, so i did. i was put on strictly bedrest but this time the bleeding didnt stop. basicly i was monitored every hour or so, but not the baby's heartbeat they didnt take the time to put it on correctly to be recorded on paper, but i still felt him moving around. late evening i started contracting and bleeding even worse, i had asked the nurse if they were going to check me to see if i was dialating, she says no not at this time (?). i was given a shot to stop the contractions and a shot for pain, it helped for a few hours then started to get bad again, i was then given a second set of shots, those didnt help as well as the first set but i was given some pills to help me sleep too. i was wakend by contractions, i called the nurse in to tell her they were getting worse, i had her check the fetal tones, my baby still had a strong heartbeat. about an hour later i called he nurse in again to assist me with the bed pan, i felt like i had to have bowel, i pushed once and told her i think i passed another large bloodclot, cause i was passing bloodclots all evning, she checked and it wasnt a bloodclot, it was my little 14oz. son that i delivered into a bed pan, there were no doctors in my room when it happened, and they nurse told me he was dead. all the doctors could tell me that they were sorry and didnt expect me to deliver him. my son was very much alive no more than an hour befor he came out. i was never vaginally checked for dialation. there was nothing done to my son to see if he could be revived and have a chance to make it. they said he was to little to make it. i beg to differ, many women i know, know someone whose baby's have made it at that early stage but my son wasnt even given the chance. the unfit care i recieved during the 8wks of on and off bleeding could have been done well different and my son might be here now.
am i in the wrong to feel this way, or was i really not given the amount of professional care my child and i needed? can i do anything legally? not only have i lost my child but i am really having a hard time recovering from it mentally.
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