Hi LuckyD
Hard to find time to go on forums with a little baby, isn't it!
Thanks so much for the message. Sorry to hear you had additional challenges, I think I'd also have suspected the hospital! When I was in for the blood transfusions etc I spoke to one lady who'd picked up 2 infections during the time she'd been in, I think hospitals are similar everywhere unfortunately, although they do their best.
It sounds like we're both thinking in a similar way about our experiences. I've been pondering how I feel about it all. My midwife said a hemorrhage can happen to anyone anywhere, nobody has said to me that there is a bigger risk of it happening again if I had another baby, but I haven't had time to read up on it a lot. I think my labour was fairly long (10 1/2 hours) and I was pushing for a while at the end, which I think might have had something to do with it.
I loved our homebirth and think I'd still do something similar if I was pregnant again, all the advantages we considered about homebirths still ring true, and we were impressed by how quickly they had me in hospital when they needed to, even though we're very rural and the hospitals not nearby. Actually in the hospital our doula asked somebody whether I'd have been treated any quicker if I'd been giving birth there and they said no - as they had to assemble a team, a room, drips etc and that all takes some time - they just started getting everything ready as the ambulance was sent out instead.
If you have had any advice or know anything more about hemorrhages, please do share if you have time.
All going well here thanks, am exhausted with the fragmented sleep and have had some b/f latch problems we've just about worked through, but we're getting through each day. How are things going for you? xxx
