The miscarriage at hospital making news...happened to me too!

This can be better managed by pregnant women - over 12 weeks - going to birth suite to be assessed and not Emergency. This should be the 'Gold' standard, certainly many of the hospitals I have worked in, this is the case. There are assessment rooms where that person would go and immediate procedures can take place. However some early miscarriages before 12 weeks are down to nature playing a part - and difficult as that is for the people concerned, usually a single miscarriage occurs for a reason - the baby would not have been able to grow for whatever reason. Pre conception care should be more widely avavilable. Investigations of repeated miscarriages can often lead to a better outcome and a live baby. See my pre conception information at http://www.babycoachonline.com.au

 I had a miscarriage too.  Waited for hours in the hospital - with my toddler with me.  But i guess it's not really an emergency as there is nothing they can do to prevent it.  I was offered a pad. But some pain relief would have been nice. 

Its really horrific to read stories about what some women have gone through. I started bleeding at 5 and a half weeks and was advised to go straight to my local early pregnancy clinic at the hospital which is only a mile away from my home. They see women every morning with any concerns, from pains to bleeding and provide an internal scan. I was seen first as I got there before 9am and luckily they saw my baby's tiny heartbeat. I feel so lucky knowing that I've got a service available to me that some women don't receive in the worst circumstances. Every woman deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.

i too had a simular problem .when i was pregnant with my 5th child before i found out at 3mths that the baby was dead and that the heart had stopped beating but like many women i did not want to belive it and decided to wait a week to see if  would stop bleeding  i thought the ultrasound machine was wrong  as i felt no pain or cramps .meanwhile 4-5 days later i sat up thinkning i had a full bladder and a big ball of blood exploaded as if my waters broke and it went all over my floor and clothes ,at first i told hubby i had just peed myself but opon touching my black pants my hands were covered in blood and we called and ambulance.i sat on my couch with my legs alivated and waited 15-20 minuts to get picked up i thought i was going to die.

then when it arrived they walked me to the ambulance and i was bleeding all over my steps and concrete outside and  wehn my kids got home they thought someone got killed cause there was blood on the carpet and couch ,by the time i got to the hospital  which was the royal hobart another 20 minuts later the bed i was laying in was covered in blood ,they then put me in a cubical in the emergency,adn i waited over 4 hours while i bleed they wiped the blood from my legs who were just govered with a blanket,they changed the sheets 2 times and even though i was in no pain they injected morphin into my vains ,i had 3 days prior to the incident had blood taken out and i had a bruise in my arm and they keeped asking if i took drugs and i told them NO WAY but they did not belive me cause of the bruise but i dont have veins as they are deep so i bruise easy,so the nurse guy told me iam going to give you something for the pain that many drug addicts would give an arm and a leg for and i told him i did not want drugs as i felt no pain and iam against pain even during labour ,he though i was joking or something cause the next thing i new i was off my face and paniking i lost control,i was scared and alone cause hubby had to stay at home with the kids ,then they finally moved me to another room where i wanting to get the curet done and they changed the sheets one more time ,adn one nurse put a mask over my face and one held my hand as i was in a panic cause i hate masks ,lucky it took 10 seconds as i was out cold ,when i woke up i was alone again,in a room where i could hear babys i was told i was to stay there for the night ,i got up 2 hours later and discharged myself and went home to hubby.that day left me scared ,i left with no baby,no body,its like she never existed .for over 6mths i couldent look at another baby or woman without hating them ..scott (hubby) got copies of the ultrasound i cut a piece of a blanket i had for her and a letter i wrote for her ,got a urn that i engraved a name for the baby and we burnt the ultrasound copies and put it all in the urn which stands in my mantle piece,which helped me move on .lucky i got pregnant not long after and had abi.but that day will hant me for the rest of my life .

Thats so wrong it shouldnt take you that long expecially if your bleeding everywhere you should have been in there straight away expecially if your pregnant and are bleeding yeah pauline27 is right you should have been a priority patient and its god to hear yourve had a baby girl

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Its frightening to read how many people this has happened to.  My heart goes out to all of you!!

What an awful ordeal for you and to think you were in a hospital.You should have been a priority patient so pleased that you have alittle girl now

That is so horrible to loose a child in does circumstances is just something unhuman, but society today has no kind of charity for the suffering of others. why do they call it the ER, if you can die siting in the waiting room......it doesn't make any sence.......but I will pray for that young lady so that she can have comfort in the loss of her baby, I to had a miscarriage a long time ago and even though it was my 3rd pregnancy it still hurt me.......

Yes I'm also horrified it still happens a very close friend from years back had the same thing happen to her and there was this person in front of her that couldn't get in so this person went home and called an ambulance to come and they came and took her to the hospital and she was seen strate away how I know that was when she went in she asked this person how she got seen straight aaway so quick then she proceeded to tell get an ambulance. We need something to help this for not to happen for the future. Thankyou for your bravery of your story.

It's so touching that you have shared you story and shed light on the problem of Australia's health care system.  I couldn't agree more that something needs to be done and slowly but surely I think it is and has already slowly gotten better.  I have had 2 children and one miscarriage and guess what I work within the Dept of Health, I know that there are a lot of plans to better the health system, but as with anything this takes time.  We as Australian citizens need to continually voice our opinions and get people to listen...don't give up hope!!  I come from an Asian background and trust me when I say...Australia is very lucky, but improvements can always be continuing. 

I'm sorry you had to go through that. I will never go to clayton hospital, i have had too many bad experiences with them, their waiting times are completely redicilous.

that is terrible great article

Thanks for sharing

Emz xx

Thank-you for sharing your story with us. How awfully heartbreaking for you lose your precious baby, my heart goes out to you.

It absolutely disgusts me how they treated you during this time. Having to wait all that time and not being seen by someone when you were in that much pain... Surely they have to realise what's going on and treat you with the care you need. Yes hospitals to get it right a lot of the time, but they can also get it so horribly wrong.

I found out I'd miscarried last week... I'm still grieving, its an awful thing to go through. I've been crying every day... Its helped me talking about it though. I also was disappointed in the care the hospitals gave me. Ridiculous that "we don't do ultrasounds after 4pm", and they couldn't even check my baby's heartbeat! Unfortunately our Baby Angel had already gone to heaven weeks earlier... If only we'd known. But still the process from beginning to end took five days, due to lack of equipment available at my Dr's surgery and at the hospital. And I fasted for over 16hours, waited in hospital for 6 of those hours to have the D&C, only to be told "we can't fit you in, go home, fast again til tomorrow morning". It was horrible.

So thank-you once again for sharing this, unfortunately this type of thing doesn't seem to be uncommon at all. Its heartbreaking.

Sending you an invite to my group now, catch up with you again, Kylie xo

That's really scary stuff. I found t realy bizzare that they didn't send her straight to maternity ward of the hospital. I must say, although I had an award winning shitty birthing experience, I witnessed some great stuff too. At the hospital where I had grub they had a clinic where you could go without an appointment or on direction of your doctor if you were having any probs. Me a week overdue and out of this world blood presuure. But a lady came in who was 32 weeks gest and said she was feeling unwell. So they gave her a bed and a cuppa, then put the monitor on her tummy and told her they were just going to give her and examination as they thought she may be in early labour. So from behind the curtain we hear "darling, you're 6cm dialated, you are in labour." She didn't want to believe them because it was early, but they had a doctor there in 5 mins, called her hubby and they wheeled straight to theatre for a c-sect to save her little bubba.

While there's always going to be horror stories within hospitals, there are also amazingly good ones too.

I feel sorry for the wonderful (and sometimes very cranky) people who attend our hospitals...they (and the patients as wel) are victims of politcal bickering and coin counters.

it just sucks that lives have to be lost that never got a chance to shine.

thank you so much for sharing your story with us and i am so sorry that you also had to go through that, as you know i too have had 2 miscarriages, but i didn't go through what you did, 

there is no way any female in Australia should have to experience this it is totally wrong! and i also agree with what Kellz and Lui are saying if you think you might be having one act crazy for sure as it might just get you the help you need

hugs and kisses

It's angering that anyone in Australia suffers in such an inhumane way.  We have the resources, money and the facilities to look after our people so much better but it's so hard to get the funds in the right place.  Thankyou for sharing your advice and your sad experience.  I'm sorry that you and anyone else could have suffered such a loss in this way.  Best wishes.  Sal

when i was losing my baby at 12 weeks gestation last year i was told she was dead and i was in a bad state of mind and carried her for a futher 5 days after being told but after all that time i started to bleed really bad and was taken to the hopsital by ambulance and i bleed all over my couch ,the concrete outside my house ,3 beds ,and it looked like a horror movie ,yet i waited 5 hours before i had the curet and was seen to properlly i wasent in pain yet they forced some kind of pain killer and they saw a bruise from a blood test i took 4 days prior casue my vains are invisible and they thought i was on drugs .

i was out of control and more scared after that and once they took the baby out they were really cold hearted like it did not matter .

this was at hobart hopital

i am so sorry that you had that awful experience...it is when thing like this happen that make us to NOT WANT TO  GO TO emergency departments...you have given excellent advice.....and i am so happy for you that you had your baby girl...CONGRATULATIONS...

Take care  jenny