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To: HSE Midwest, Maternity services
Provide care for those experiencing a miscarriage off site from Limerick maternity hospital
Women and their partners experiencing a miscarriage should not recieve care surrounded by those receiving antenatal care. Miscarrying women and pregnant women should not share waiting areas, assessment units or any hospital area. For the pregnant woman the stress, anxiety and empathy for the miscarrying woman should not enter their body, and the miscarrying woman should not experience the trauma of sitting beside a pregnant woman or be separated from the sound of a babies heartbeat by a paper curtain.
Please provide kind and compassionate care for those miscarrying off site from Limerick maternity hospital.
Please provide kind and compassionate care for those miscarrying off site from Limerick maternity hospital.
Why is this important?
The model of providing care off site from the maternity hospital exists already in other areas, within the gynaecology department in the main hospital. It is acknowledged how overburdened UHL is, but women's healthcare should not be neglected again. Providing a care pathway for those miscarrying in a site within Ennis and Nenagh for those with a confirmed miscarriage would allow the specific care needed for those patients and alleviate the need to go to UHL.
This would reduce the trauma caused to the woman and partner and allow them to focus on recovery and processing the miscarriage without the extra burden of emotional trauma by mixing miscarriage care and antenatal care.
This would reduce the trauma caused to the woman and partner and allow them to focus on recovery and processing the miscarriage without the extra burden of emotional trauma by mixing miscarriage care and antenatal care.