Samantha

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Samantha was being monitored for high blood pressure, but also developed headaches and...

Samantha was being monitored for high blood pressure, but also developed headaches and...
Samantha had an emergency caesarean because she had developed pre-eclampsia and very high blood...

Samantha had an emergency caesarean because she had developed pre-eclampsia and very high blood...
Samantha and her husband appreciated meeting with paediatricians who explained what would happen...

Samantha and her husband appreciated meeting with paediatricians who explained what would happen...
Samantha was keen to see her daughter as soon as possible, but had to wait several hours because...

Samantha was keen to see her daughter as soon as possible, but had to wait several hours because...
Samantha felt her 6-week check with the GP was a bit brief given what she had been through, but...

Samantha felt her 6-week check with the GP was a bit brief given what she had been through, but...
Samantha had pre-eclampsia and her daughter was delivered early and in neo-natal intensive care...

Samantha had pre-eclampsia and her daughter was delivered early and in neo-natal intensive care...
I think in hindsight I wish that I’d gone back to talk to someone about what had happened. Not necessarily the issues of our daughter being in special care, but what happened to me. And I think it would have been good if there’d been some sort of group that I could have gone to of other mothers that had been through something similar. There seems to be lots of help for sort of parents who have got children who are poorly. But there doesn’t seem to be that much discussion about if you’ve been through a difficult birth experience, and whilst I had my NCT post natal group that I spoke with, that was just one, one week out of sort of eight, and then we sort of went on and we were talking about parenting stuff and things like that. And I think yes, in hindsight I would have liked to have been able to talk more about what had happened. Not necessarily to get any real resolution on it, because I understood exactly what had happened, but just to talk about it. And to know that there were other people out there who’d been through difficult experiences.
Samantha was reassured that her consultant asked her to come back if she was thinking about a...
