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[quote=Anonymous]I delivered via scheduled c-section my first baby at VHC in June 2017.  The maternity ward at VHC while I was there was teeming with patients, and they were very short staffed.  I fell behind on pain management due to one particularly overwhelmed night-shift nurse who kept promising to bring by pain meds and ultimately gave them to me hours after they were due.  I got behind and was in significant pain for a lot of my recovery, and my doctor was annoyed that I was behind the 8 ball due to a lack of attentiveness by the staff.

I had my c-section at 12:30pm, so I hit the magical 12 hour window (when they consider pulling your iv, your catheter, and making you walk to the bathroom to demonstrate you can pee) around 12:30am.  Although my nurse was unable to see to me because of the massive number of deliveries happening, she sent one of the supply resource managers to pull my catheter and ask me to get out of bed.  I had yet to have any additional painkiller and I was in serious pain.  The supply nurse did not know what she was doing and refused to even hold my arm as i hobbled silently crying from the pain to the bathroom.  Shockingly because of the pain, I could not pee.  She then called the busy nurse who screamed at me that she would give me one more shot to pee in an hour and i better start drinking everything in sight because she would put the catheter back in.  I asked if I could please have more pain meds as I was in tremendous pain.  I drank everything in sight and was able to pee, so I avoided the reinsertion of a catheter.  However, when my doctor rounded around 5am-- I was gray, sweaty, and legit close to collapse from the pain.  (I still had not received any pain meds.)  The cherry on the cake was that my newborn got kicked out of the nursery because she was waking the other babies up.  So, I was in tremendous pain and dealing with a screaming baby all night long.  My husband also contracted a horrible virus from the VHC cafeteria on our third day there -- so I would also avoid the food.

I will not be returning to VHC when I deliver my next baby in a few days.  I am praying that the experience at Sibley is better.  I hate that I had such a horrendous experience at VHC-- I was really excited to deliver there as so many of my friends have had positive experiences there.  However, I must be the exception to the rule. As I prepare for the next c-section, it feels like I have PTSD from the nursing care at VHC from the first time around.  I am really hoping to have a more positive experience.  I also hope that VHC has figured out its staffing better now for the sake of its patients (and particularly its c-section patients) than it had in late June 2017. [/quote]

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