This is where it starts getting difficult for me, the sickness is horrendous, I felt so weak and I was having heart palpitations, it was taking me 3 times as long to do the school run as I kept having to stop for fear is pass out. Back and forth to the doctors, every time the same thing, OBS are good, go home – try to rest and come back if things don’t improve. Eventually they sent me in to hospital, again my OBS were good, they took a wee sample and that came back with “a lot of sugar in it” this lead them to believe it might be gestational diabetes but no-one really explained it to me, they said I was a little dehydrated and should try to drink more. They kept me in over night and put a heart monitor on me and a line in my arm incase I needed fluids or antibiotics. They sent me for a chest x-ray (this made me nervous but they assured me it was safe and wouldn’t affect the baby!) They took bloods. Everything came back ok. The next morning they said I needed to be tested for gestational diabetes and I could book that through my GP. They told me my chest was clear of blood clots but I was still dehydrated so I should go home and drink more. I asked them why they hadn’t given me fluid overnight to help with this, they answered “we don’t like to put a line in as it heightens the risk of infection and that’s bad especially in pregnancy” so I pointed out that they had put a line in this taking the risk without doing anything with it! She looked embarrassed and said “oh, I don’t know why they didn’t give you fluids, they should have done that. I’ll get someone to take that out for you so you can go home” I asked why they couldn’t put me on fluids now, just to give me a headstart on rehydrating myself and she said……..”no it’s ok, just go home and drink more and rest”…………………… I couldn’t believe my ears, I got angry. “If it was that simple then I wouldn’t be here would I!? I don’t understand why you won’t help me? There is something wrong and I’m pregnant why won’t you do anything?” She said that they couldn’t find a reason for me feeling the way I did and that they we’re not worried about the baby, her exact words ” we wouldn’t do anything at this gestation anyway, you need to rest and go for you scan on Monday, they will be able to tell you if the baby is ok” at this point my blood is boiling, how can they not care!? I looked her in the eye and said “that’s great, thanks for nothing!, You best hope nothing happens to my baby or I’ll make sure you get struck off!”
I went home, I tried to drink more, I cried a lot. Why wouldn’t anyone listen to me? I kept telling them there was something wrong, they just said I was panicking because I’ve lost babies before and I suffer with my mental health!
I’ll never know if fluids could have made a difference but I’ll always wonder…………..
Nayely Adelpha Foundation 