“Det var et barn, jeg ikke fik, som jeg skulle have haft”

Reference: J
”Det var et barn, jeg ikke fik, som jeg skulle have haft”.
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She chose to take morphine not realising that her baby was about to be born and she regretted
it because the morphine made her sick and sleepy.
Reference: K
He felt helpless as there was nothing he could do to help his wife as she gave birth.
A few women had gone through labour and delivery with little or no pain relief - one woman who
had given birth to 4 children said she 'just got on with it' - another woman had gas and air.
Reference: L
She found that gas and air provided enough pain relief for her on this occasion so that she was
able to deliver her baby quite easily.
A few women had asked for an epidural and found that staff were reluctant to give them.
Several people didn't understand why it was difficult to get an epidural - some wondered if they
cost too much. One woman thought that health professionals might be reluctant to provide
epidurals because they felt that women were experiencing 'emotional' rather than genuine
physical pain.
Occasionally women wanted to have - or thought they could have - a caesarean section to
avoid going through any kind of labour pain, but caesarean sections are not usually performed
in these circumstances.
Women who felt they should have been treated with greater sensitivity during this difficult time,
or who sensed that midwives disapproved of what they were doing or who wanted to avoid
caring for them, felt disappointed and let down with their care.
Reference: M
Describes her labour and epidural neither of which went as well as she had hoped.
Women were very sensitive about how the baby was handled during and after labour; they
wanted the baby to be protected and cared for after s/he was delivered and not left alone or
taken away from them for too long. (See also 'Deciding whether to see, hold and name the
baby'.)
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