Hi i would like to share my birth experience at st George public hospital and hope with this will prevent of what has happened to me happen to you! After the birth, my placenta did not come out complete, gynaecologist Ludmilla Collin came to do a manual removal at the birth bed but it didn't go well and I was in a lot of pain as there was only gas given as the painkiller, later on that afternoon I was sent to the theatre for the second round of manual placenta removal by the same doctor with epidural. After 2days stay I was then dismissed from the hospital, only a day later I experienced massive on going bleeding, maternity pads filled full with bright blood every 20-30 min so I went straight to the emergency that evening. Much later on I got checked by a very young Indian gynaecologist she said it wasn't active bleeding just retained old blood and disappeared for the night. That night I was frequently catching baseball size coagulated blood and kept on filling up pads with blood and i spent the night with my new born on the emergency bed. By the third day I was finally sent to have a D&C (placenta removal with guided ultrasound...I wonder why it didn't happen in the last two times!) where I waited a further 4hrs at the surgery door. Because I choose to sleep during my operation, the anaesthetist need to put in an arterial needle. The anaesthetist is Christopher Yong he accidentally pricked himself with the same needle used on me he then demanded to take more blood from me just to find out if I am diseased so that he aren't effected but those results would have been recorded in my blood tests during my pregnancy and can be easily accessed (results for HIV, hepatitis etc.) and of course I agreed to give the blood to him, he seemed agitated. When he finally tried his best to put the needle in my artery vein on my wrist, somehow after the needle was put in i felt something warm on my hand and flowing and it was my blood pumping furiously out through the uncapped end! I really thought I was not going to make it alive in that theatre! The operation left me with a very painful throat lasted 5weeks and two loose front teeth! 8weeks on I had two ultrasounds for the post operation checkup and confirmed there is something left in my uterus and need further investigation possibly another operation guided with hysteroscope. According to the top gynaecology professor in St George I was just the unlucky 1% to have these happened to me, but I would like to say that unlucky 1% happened to me for 3 times at St George public hospital! I really think "unlucky" should not be the word to use to cover up their incompetency and handball the responsibilities! Furthermore overall there should have been two cannula needles (once during birth, once when I admitted at ED) but a total 11 tried was made on both my hands, arms and even on one foot! At RPA for my first birth was just once and got in! Should I say I get lucky there? read more