Following on from HELLP Syndrome Part 1 (This is part 3 of The Gory Birth Story!) Whilst I’m not entirely sure what day I had the first blood transfusion (I think it was day three), I remember the panic surrounding it. Doctors, anaesthetists, consultants and numerous midwives kept coming in to ask me questions and […]
Childbirth
HELLP Syndrome – Part 1
Finally I’m ready to blog my ordeal, so following on from The Gory Birth Story…. Having just given birth to two beautiful and tiny, but healthy, baby girls, the natural motherly instinct is to cuddle them and cry with overwhelming happiness and relief. But as I look through my maternity notes I see the sickening […]
A Rant to a Ranter
To the lady who left me my first ever nasty blog comment a few weeks ago… I did not publish your comment, but I wish I had. So I am going to blog about it because I’m STILL feeling annoyed…. You had a rant at me for not appreciating the work of NHS doctors. You […]
Evacuation of Retained Products of Conception
It turned out that my body did NOT want to behave itself and on tuesday I got taken to theatre for a general anaesthetic and an “Evacuation of Retained Products of Conception” (ERPC). This operation is also performed in the instance of miscarriages, in which case the name of the procedure is particularly upsetting and quite heartbreaking. […]
Hospitalized AGAIN (a TMI post)
Now I know you were expecting my next post to be about HELLP Syndrome and a continuation from The gory birth story but I’m finding it quite traumatic to write and having to write it in stages as I burst into tears when I think about what I went through. However, as I now find […]