I just read in tears the story of a nairalander, how he lost his dad in LASUTH and decided to write my own story to enlighten people out there. I was made to believe that government hospitals aren't trustworthy when it comes to lives and hubby and I decided to register in a private hospital when I took in. After 4months of ante natal we had to relocate and the need for a change of hospital came up, although before that the hospital mis diagnosed my blood group. I am B- and I knew I was to take Rhogam injection after delivery. The hospital carried out the test twice and told me I am B+ but I never accepted it.
When we changed to the new private hospital at Okota, that was the first test they ran and my blood group was confirmed to be B- and when we looked around, they had all the facilities so we decided to settle for them
Fast forward to 3months later, I was 7months gone and I started showing signs of infection, I asked to be treated and the Dr who said he had 17 years medical experience asked me to buy Skineal and apply. I asked if he could give m drug he said it wasn't necessary. A month later the infection became worse and hubby had to go with me to request for treatment and that was when he gave me anti biotics and am insertion tablet and he asked me to come the next day for swab test. I got prepared and went, unknown to me, the nurse wanted to use am unsterilized instrument on me, it was the Dr who came and stopped the procedure and asked me to go home and the swab was cancelled saying they weren't ready. This was in my 36weeks, then we thought of changing hospital but to us we felt it was too late as they were the only ones with my medical history.
Well with all that happened I ended up losing my daughter at 39weeks during delivery. She was active before birth, the main Dr had travelled and his assistant was left to take the delivery. Him and the two nurses left me during labour after checking me and realised I had dilated to 4cm. After 5hours of labour my daughter came out weak and the Dr told us she had cord around her neck which caused her death of which we didn't believe till date. She was our first issue and above all the stitching wasn't properly done, I had to go to another hospital for that. Am glad i took the Rhogam and hopefully another will come.Till date the Dr never visited to show he cares ,kept giving excuses for not coming and I asked him not to bother coming after 6weeks. Its almost two months now and we have moved on. I wrote this to help others especially women please no matter how much it will cost u look for the best,although people ask why we didn't register in a government hospital, we still know its cos of the bad stories we hear daily. May the Lord deliver us from bad Drs that will cost us our lives.

Amen

Everyone seems to have a story to tell and eventually, the doctors and nurses get the blame.

Only one question. Were you advised to do a CS at any time during the labour?

Babies don't just die like that. The labour must have been prolonged and someone must have suggested a CS to you.

For How long had you been in labour before you were told yiur cervix was 4cm dilated?
For normal labour, dilatation should be about 1cm per hour in active phase. So fetal exhaustion 5hours after doesn't exactly add up. These things are on Google.

Again, a chronic vaginal discharge is a relative contraindication to spontaneous vaginal delivery.

The doctor definitely has questions to answer but it's only fair we hear his part of the story.

Sorry about the loss

[quote author=twoondei post=46578483]Everyone seems to have a story to tell and eventually, the doctors and nurses get the blame.

Only one question. Were you advised to do a CS at any time during the labour?

Babies don't just die like that. The labour must have been prolonged and someone must have suggested a CS to you.

For How long had you been in labour before you were told yiur cervix was 4cm dilated?
For normal labour, dilatation should be about 1cm per hour in active phase. So fetal exhaustion 5hours after doesn't exactly add up. These things are on Google.

Again, a chronic vaginal discharge is a relative contraindication to spontaneous vaginal delivery.

The doctor definitely has questions to answer but it's only fair we hear his part of the story.

Sorry about the loss
I won't come here and rant over something I experienced. I was NEVER for once advised to do a CS never ever. I delivered a week to my due date. I went into labour around 11pm and got to the hospital by 12:30am , he checked me and said I was 4cm then checked me into the labour room and went to sleep including his nurses.My hubby was there when delivery was taken, he saw all that happened. I didnt even look like one in labour. I wanted to push by 4am but when Dr was called he came in around 4:45 am I was very much alert while all these was going on. I pushed for only 20mins of which I started at exactly 5:00am and she came out. He burst my water himself then went on to start preparing the things for delivery.
As for the infection when I got worse I began leaking as water would constantly drip frm my body, including discharge nd I had to mind how I went out to avoid embarrassment.
Everything happened so fast that morning

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Madam, I'm sorry about the whole incident.
What probably happened when you thought water was leaking from your body was consequent upon the prolonged infection.

The infection probably ascended and precipitated premature contractions. That explains it.

Everything that happened is traceable to the poorly treated vaginal infection you had. And that's a problem primarily with the antenatal care rather than the delivery care.

You know what to do in your next pregnancy, fly to the US.
Nigerian doctors are grossly incompetent and the competent ones have left.

Your child will be a citizen of the US and that's probably one of the best legacies you can leave for a child right now.

twoondei:


Madam, I'm sorry about the whole incident.
What probably happened when you thought water was leaking from your body was consequent upon the prolonged infection.

The infection probably ascended and precipitated premature contractions. That explains it.

Everything that happened is traceable to the poorly treated vaginal infection you had. And that's a problem primarily with the antenatal care rather than the delivery care.

You know what to do in your next pregnancy, fly to the US.
Nigerian doctors are grossly incompetent and the competent ones have left.

Your child will be a citizen of the US and that's probably one of the best legacies you can leave for a child right now.

Not all can afford to travel out to deliver. I can only afford that in Nigeria.

tell us d hospital in okota and we wld neva near der again