OMG!!! This is terrible!!!! How dare they! I so hope your sister has the strength when things settle down to follow this up and take action against these idiots.
Regards Jayne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Abby and Toby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 10:33 PM Subject: Abuse of power!! Re: [ozmidwifery] URGENT INFO NEEDED > > The phototherapy equipment is often on wheels - the baby can be given > > phototherapy but be in the same room as mum. In fact, in most places the > > equipment is available for hire and mum can give at home. > > Good luck. > > Nikki Macfarlane > > Director, Childbirth International > > www.childbirthinternational.com > > > I wish we had known all that Nikki................. > > I know this sounds unbelieveable but it is all true. I don't know exact > times. > > After a very tiring day, my sis finally decided to leave Jamies side at > about 9:30pm when BIL took Aiden(other son) home. Sis was giving Jamie a > feed before she went to bed. During the feed along came a nurse who told her > to stop because a "doctor" wanted to speak with her. She said she wouldn't > stop feeding him but would talk to the doctor when she had finished. > > She went out of the nursery and to the room where her bed was set up. She > wasn't admitted as a patient, but they provided her with a bed. Outside her > room were two men and a wheel chair and inside were the doctor, a midwife > and the head of the nursing unit. > > The doc started asking questions about psychosis, without even telling her > who he was, and when she asked he said he was a psychiatrist. She grabbed > the phone and rang my mum while he was telling her not to call anyone. By > this stage it was past 10pm. He got on the phone to my mum saying that he > was going to admit Sis to the psych ward as an involuntary and unwilling > patient. My mum told him if he did he would end up there! LOL! My mum is > good value! They told Sis that if she put up a fight they would sedate her. > It seemed like they had waited till everyone had left before they approached > Sis. > > My mum arrived in 5 mins and then BIL arrived in 20mins. BIL tried to get > some info from the doc as this had all happened completely out of the blue. > No warning, no sign of concern from the midwives and nurses in contact with > Sis except some of them didn't like her asking questions. Sis, BIL and mum > were given no answers. We are all so aware of the signs and symptoms of PNP > and PND and sis was definitley not showing any, just tired and stressed > because of her very long day. > > They kept asking her questions, the doc and head nurse, till 1:30am and > proceeded to tell her that she seemed "flighty"!!!! I would too at 1:30am, > with a son in hospital being told I couldn't feed him on demand because he > might die of brain damage! > > Anyway....to cut a very long story short, a midwife stayed outside Sis room, > BIL slept on the floor, my mum stayed till 2:30am and Sis tried to sleep. > > I got a call at 7:00am, completely oblivious to the goings on of last night > and raced down there. > > A different psychiatrist came along and met with Sis, BIL, my dad and I. He > said he didn't understand what or why all this had happened. He asked Sis > some questions and spoke to all of us and said he was sooo sorry, he thought > it was some kind of beaurocratic thing!!! Like they couldn't figure out how > to book her into maternity??!! > > So today we spent the day in hospital and I watched my sister go from, > yesterday, stressed and tired but doing a wonderful job mothering, to today, > an emotional, sleep deprived wreck, who was now questioning herself as a > mum! I don't know how this could've happened, it seems so sureal! > > The head nurse that was on this afternoon was so apologetic and couldn't > believe what had happened either. She said that there had been things > written in Sis files that were not true, like the Mental Health Emergency > Team had come to speak to Sis and that they had called the psychiatrist, > they never came. All the nurses today and midwives were saying to Sis that > they couldn't understand any of it either. > > This evening I rang an independent midwife and she came to visit Sis and > just tried to talk with her and stuff, she was really lovely. > > The worst part of this, is not how or why this happened, but what effect it > has had on Sis. I am really feeling for her, it has started the ball rolling > in her head and she doesn't see how she can stop her negative feelings and > thoughts about herself. > > I don't understand how any of this could happen. > > Love Abby > > > > > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. > -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.