If you keep the title of the entry you will think that the mother was a brave and that the hospital professionals heroes. She because he had a caesarean section without anesthesia and they because they saved their baby's life.
The fact is that the story is not so beautiful (if it can be defined that way), but much harder and cruel, and all because the treatment this mother received was unfortunate. In fact, he says, that's what hurt him most about the process.
It all happened a month ago, when Maria Mercedes Alcocer, 37, went to give birth to a long-awaited baby. So much so that they were about to request a fertilization treatment when they learned, she and her partner, that she was pregnant.
Already nine months, specifically 41 weeks and 4 days, it broke waters. This was on February 13 at night, Thursday. At that same moment they went to the Central University Hospital of Asturias, where he stayed in maternity waiting for it to be dilating.
The minutes passed, the hours passed, they tried to cause him to be delivered with prostaglandins and oxytocin but not with those. Thus came Friday night, 24 hours after breaking waters, and began to feel bad. He commented that it felt hot, as if he had a fever, and it was confirmed, since the thermometer was 39.7 ° C.
Inexplicably, at the plant they didn't think it was anything important and, as the mother explains:
On the floor they paid no attention to me. They said I was nervous because I was first time.
Her husband, Cristian, requested on more than one occasion the attention of hospital staff, since she saw that she was suffering, suffering from fever, and what she got was that they would give him a painkiller to calm down, because everything was, as they said, fruit of the nerves.
About three o'clock in the morning they took her down to the paruary to put her epidural. However, there they saw that he had not dilated enough and brought it back to the ground.
At eight o'clock on Saturday morning it was confirmed that Mary suffered an infection. At that moment everyone started running. They took her to the operating room and told the anesthetist, but it was too late. The doctor waiting for him in the ward said: "Either short or your son dies". So it was. Cut without anesthesia. Mary lost consciousness the moment I noticed how the baby was taken out.
Now the parents will submit a claim, since they fear for the health of their child, who suffered fetal distress, and because they believe that the treatment was not adequate.
The baby had to be two weeks in the incubatorMaria has had nightmares during the first few weeks, dreaming that she was being attacked and cut and, worse, neither the hospital nor the Ministry of Health have explained to her what happened those two days that Mary entered to give birth.
In the words of the mother, which I think sums it up perfectly:
It was a horrible pain. I clenched my teeth so much that one broke ... what hurt me the most was not so much the cut without anesthesia, but also, the misunderstanding. So much suffering is inhuman. You can't play like that with people's lives.
We need to know what the hospital version is, so that they explain what really happened and how it is possible that a woman who has broken waters and has a fever 24 hours later was treated as if she were nervous. If at that time they had heard and attended as someone who is almost 40 fever deserves Today I would not have written this.
