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'Mum, Help - I've Given Birth!' September 21 2006 Woman 'abandoned' by midwives after baby is born
This appalling incident, which took place at St James's Hospital in Leeds, was apparently the result of staff shortages. 'I feel let down by St James's, or the NHS generally, but I don't feel let down by the individual midwives,' Miriam told reporters. 'There were two midwives during the day and two during the night. It was chaos. One of the midwives was nearly in tears she was so distraught. They said they wanted to provide the care they were trained to provide but just didn't have the time to do it. If I was a first time mother I would have panicked.' A spokesperson for the hospital said; ' On this day there was pressure on the delivery suite and only two midwives with support staff on the post-natal ward to support 15 mothers and their babies…Staffing in midwifery is a national problem.'
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The period immediately following childbirth is supposed to be a golden hour, giving mother and
baby the time to bond. Unfortunately for Miriam Grice, the hours following the birth to her
second child are a time she'll do her best to forget. Exhausted, and sitting in a pool of blood,
Miriam was left in the delivery suite on her own for more than three hours. Eventually she was
forced to call her mother to come and help clean her up.
