N.S. mom says she had to ‘beg’ for care while giving birth at IWK hospital
“If this could happen to someone like me — not that I’m any better than anybody else, but I feel like I was extremely resourceful and prepared — it could happen to anyone, and I’m pretty sure it probably does,” MacDonald told Global News.Leading up to her daughter’s birth, MacDonald said she had received “absolutely extraordinary” care from the IWK’s perinatal centre, so she expected the same level of care during the birth itself.
“I’m in labour and I’m a first-time mother and I don’t know what to expect,” MacDonald said. “No one even offers to help me go to the washroom or to show me where it is.” “All I kept being told was, there’s no space for you. And during this … I see women constantly being wheeled up to the next floor,” MacDonald said.She said her mother asked why others who arrived after them were able to go up to the next floor, and was told it was because they were scheduled for Cesarean sections.Story continues below advertisement
“Was it going to be painless? No. Is it manageable pain? Yes. Do we live in a first-world country where the expectation is that if we have pain, and we’re asking to be looked after, and for it to be managed? Yes, that was the expectation.”Alex Cooke/Global News “I did have some relief, thankfully, but at the time, you could have told me you were cutting my leg off, and I would have said: ‘Just give me the epidural!’” she said.The nurse in that room was “wonderful,” said MacDonald, and helped her to practise push. Her daughter arrived soon after.
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