Deciding factor on leaving early?

That is sad. I can't believe the midwife told them they could go home, she should have been telling them to stay there. I know it might not have been avoidable but it seems pretty shocking that a midwife would tell a first time mum with not much support that she could go home after 5 hours, with no clue how to breastfeed etc and that no doc had checked the baby. A poor show on her part and the hospital, is a complete cop out to say that they weren't told to go home.

So so sad. I would be so angry at the hospital and midwife if it was me.
I do wonder about them saying they did not know they could stay - we covered that at ante-natal classes and were told our options.

This is such a weird story. There must have been something already wrong for a baby to die within 24 hours of discharge from the hospital!?!?

Im sorry but I wont be making my mind up until i hear whaa the baby passed from...

auckland discharges within 12 hours...and you can go home, or to birthcare type places etc and noone follows up that night - i know someone who took newborn straight to a new years eve party!!! arrived at birthcare the next day!!!

as for feeding issues - my goodness this poor mum is being made to feel horrible....there are plenty of mums on here who arent coping with feeding, or have bubbas who dont latch on weeks after birth...

I think we will hear bubba had something wrong with it that wasnt clear....and i hope they lay off the mum and tell her there was nothing she could have done to change it....

Bombshell wrote: auckland discharges within 12 hours...

wrong... this is taken directly from the pamphlet i received from them ...

"If you have had a normal vaginal delivery you will transfer to birthcare within 3 hours after the birth of your baby. if you or your baby are unwell then you will stay at NW for your postnatal care."

Edited by GandT

It is really sad but I'm not going to make any judgements until we hear how the baby died.

I will say I don't think its particularly the midwife or hospitals fault, I mean there are only so many beds and midwifes so someone obviously is going to be missing out on a bed. What needs to happen is more midwifes get trained up, more jobs for them at the hospitals and more beds for the women. I feel like midwifes always get blamed when they are doing the best the can with a ridiculous case load and minimal pay.

what aload of bull the hospital are blaming the midwife the midwife is told to push people out after the brith and the pernets are left with a dead baby in the end these poor perents good on them for specking out is this the same hospital that was offering shopping vources if they left early argghhh relly. yes they baby may have died anyway even if they had stayed but at least they would of been in the best place to get help if they needed it. its not the fact what the baby deid off its the fact that they were pushed out not given the surport by the people in the know and are fogged off and blame is placed on the midwife/parents and not the hospital whos job it is to provide beds for the mums and bubs arrghhhhh ok relly angery

Regardless of what the baby died of, no first time mother should be given the OK to leave so soon after giving birth. She should have been transferred to another unit or made to stay. Unfortunately it's a really horrible situation but hopefully it means they will get extra funding to cope with the workload and lack of bed space.

In Chch you get kicked out within 3 hours too, but you are given the option of which primary care facility you wish to transfer to for the following 48 hours. The midwife should have arranged that for her early in the pregnancy and should have followed it up after the birth. So I do blame the midwife partly because it is her duty to look after both mother and baby throughout the pregnancy, birth, and 6 weeks after.

See here in New plymouth we don't get the option of any where else unless you are willing to go all the way out to Stratford. I would love to see more primary care unit's opened around the country that would take the pressure off the hospital's and mean the ladies that really need medical attention get's it. While other Mum's are still provided with the support all mum's need at the start.

Auckland has been really busy lately, when my friend was induced a few weeks ago her induction was postponed coz the delivery unit was full and the day she actually delivered it was full as well. They manage by postponing inductions, and where neccessary keeping labouring women in the assessment unit until they are ready to deliver, and then transferring to a ward/Birthcare as quickly as possible after delivery. You can transfer to a ward first and then to Birthcare later in some circumstances.