Hi my names Jemima and this is part of my story today I’m having a really bad day I don’t want to see anyone my chest is tight and I just want to sleep but here goes * The death of hunter was so unexpected we’ve experienced shock, confusion disbelief, overwhelming sadness where we find it hard even just to do the simplest of tasks like getting out of bed seem impossible, we had planned our journey ahead with our twin boys buying everything matching and stocking up on everything times two, we mentally prepared ourselves for bringing our sons home together, I feel like more could of been done, especially as having identical twins is very low, and all the other factors that weren’t considered when the doctors made decisions and following the notes many mistakes have been made things that may of prevented the death of our son hunter, we don’t feel he got the correct care and was treated like a full term baby not as a identical twin or even look at my history and hunter was so much smaller not even precautionary measures were taken to prevent his death. We feel we’ve been let down by under-resourced and inconsistent NHS maternity units lacking specialist support and facilities. Our lives have been shattered by hunters death in deeply saddened to learn and read the days before our son passed away we are not happy with some of the care and lack of care and no attention to what was being put into the daily notes, looking after our boys especially hunter.
- Doctors or nurses Not listening to our concerns when hunter became very unsettled and upset we both knew as parents that he was unwell but the doctors chose to overlook our concerns and tell us he was fine saying he had colic I have had 5 children before and they have had colic and they never showed signs like hunters, his tummy looked webbed and off Colour when the doctor examined him but still she overlooked the fact I was highly concerned, my partner requested a blood test but was told she was doing her job neither nurse or doctor was interested in our concerns for our son being very out of character and crying with his tongue reaching the top of his mouth I knew he was in pain - what happened to mums no best I was completely dismissed. The nurse also fed hunter a hour early because he was crying he hardly took the bottle so she gave him ng and filled his belly up probably causing the perforations of continued feeding. We had to keep asking the nurse for the doctor to come as we were getting quite upset knowing that our son was becoming poorly. Things were defiantly overlooked and rushed even a day before I remember the ph strip was over 6 and the nurse said that it might be due to placement and commenced with the feeding and I’m sure this didn’t help hunter.
- I suffer with bad anxiety now, I struggle to go out anywhere, I have panic attacks and have bad depression too, I take sertraline and beta blockers to help with the severity of my panic attacks, I also have bad ptsd after everything that has happened we’re broke. Hearted on the loss of our son hunter. Doctors failed my son who failed there duty to take care of our son I have chrones disease and whilst pregnant I had to take steroids due to my illness getting bad during pregnancy
thank you for taking time to read this x
