Pregnant women's vaccinated partners not allowed to stay with them in hospitals.

ceadaoin.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117702372#Comment_117702372

The second link is about Switzerland but ok.

Here is a piece specifically about Ireland. It's very helpful for women in labour, not only to have the support but to have someone to advocate for them

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/forcing-women-to-give-birth-within-a-specified-timeframe-is-abuse-1.3282848

Mrs OBumble

If the situations described here are true, then this is an appalling indictment of the nursing staff, who are totally failing to do their jobs.

You'd really have to question how Irish trained midwives are allowed to practice in other countries.

Lumen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117703071#Comment_117703071

Sure, write off all 10,000 midwives in Ireland because of a couple of bad experiences. That's totally reasonable.

Deeec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117703071#Comment_117703071

You obviously havent given birth yourself in the last 10 years! I can tell you the stories are 100% true unfortunately.

There also is nothing wrong with Irish midwives - its not their fault - its the HSE where the problem lies - staffing levels etc. Maybe a solution could be is to have more carer type people working in hospitals to help out the nurses and midwives with helping to care for new babies. Its ridiculous that women are expected to care for their babies straight away after a section or difficult birth ( often weak and drowsy with painkillers ) with no help from staff.

celt262

What is the status at the moment are husbands/partners allowed in during hospital visiting hours?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117692125#Comment_117692125

My wife has a very slow early labour but spikes to 10cm and delivery within minutes.

Medics were caught unawares during 1st birth, delayed epidural, causing her to be overly numb at delivery, which caused large issues during the birth with her not able to time pushes or communicate how she felt.

Warned midwives for next about it, was dismissed, saw it start to play out same way, went back to midwives and became insistent. To shut me up they came in and insoected her, immediately started walking her to delivery suite, had to put her on trolley half way up, entered delivery suite and baby born within minutes.

Hmmm, wonder what would have happened this year...?

Squatman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117686047#Comment_117686047

yes, and many people died in the famine too. whilst both statements are obnoxiously obvious, neither are favourable. as ignorant as your first statement is, your concluding paragraph is also just terrible. PS. i dont agree that the staffing levels are too low. my experiences x2 have been that there are ample midwives, however, they are too busy sitting around eating biscuits to help, and have the graduates support. for one of my visits, 2 mws were seated infront of the telly watching the galway v clare hurling game 3 years ago, which went to extra time.

Squatman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117692125#Comment_117692125

yea, i think this is particularly true in the case of small children. who would know better about the childs personality and form (knowing what's normal or not normal) than these magical nurses that have never met the child before. you are looking at this from a very blinkered perspective

Billgirlylegs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117704533#Comment_117704533

Worthy of quoting your reasoned reply to a completely ignorant post. There are a few others of similar opinions. Comments about people "wandering" about are also crass and ignorant.

The general HSE/Department of Health/NPHET handling of the Covid issue is an unending sequence of illogical incompetence. These are maternity hospitals, outcome scenario intended to be a bit different to standard hospital.

"They" set them up so they really need to have adapted to the new circumstances by now and be able to welcome both parents or mother and "friend" as applies. There are ways and means of arranging for people to accompany prospective mothers safely, and if "medical professionals" haven't figured it out you wonder at their capacity for actually being able to carry out their job properly.

There is no reason for this rubbish and it really is typical of the whole health industry incompetence.

political analyst

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117702829#Comment_117702829

It's possible that there are sound medical reasons for inducing births in Ireland. Maybe the obstetricians are concerned about the likelihood of overcrowding in maternity wards.

mohawk

It’s very clear some of the posters on this thread have neither given birth in Ireland or have heard birth stories from Irish hospitals.

A common theme is that they don’t even tell you that you are getting an episiotomy, or other interventions. The decision is made for you. Now you may argue that it’s best for the baby, but you should at least be given the dignity of been told what the medical team are doing.

A woman needs to recover after giving birth. Many women will of had c-sections, a tear or an episiotomy so they have wounds that required stitches. They are sore and in some cases weak from blood loss and of course exhausted. Many will need help to get out of bed to go to the loo no mind trying to pick up their newborn baby. Do people in this thread really think midwives are running around helping new mothers care for their babies. Because that in all honesty is not the experience that any mother I know has experienced.

We all know Ireland has a good record when it comes to maternal mortality, however I think there is room for improvement when it comes to the amount of women with birth injuries.

I personally hope when I give birth in a couple months that my partner can be there for the whole labour and allowed in for more then a couple minutes afterwards. We have paid for private scans for this pregnancy before the hospital scans so that I wouldn’t be in a position of receiving bad news on my own and having to tell him. Thankfully things are looking good so far with our baby. We are lucky that we could afford to pay for those scans. Not every couple can.

Deeec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117710703#Comment_117710703

Very well said. I wish you all the best for your new arrival. Hopefully your partner will be allowed in by then.