Baby stillborn at the hospital of le Havre : the mom confides to Why a Doctor of his despair

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Published the 04.01.2018 at 22h04
Update the 05.01.2018 at 08h17

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The drama dates back to 3 October. A pregnant 29-year-old learns, from an ultrasound, that her baby is stillborn. The young woman is admitted to the hospital Jacques Monod, 3 days later, on 6 October, at le Havre to induce labour.

The midwife pulled the flush

Under the effect of the treatments in use, it loses suddenly the waters and, without supervision and without experience (this is a 1st pregnancy), she rushes to the toilet. It loses a lot of blood and called the midwife… that just flush it !
Following 3 days of stimulation repeated at the hospital, no more results that increase bleeding. On 10 October, one of the doctors decides to do a curettage, only to find that there are residues of placenta but that there is more to the baby. Then the occurrence of an infection in a premium… We do not think in the twenty-first century or in France.

The law is badly made

The story does not stop there. Far from being supported in the “perinatal grief program” of the hospital, she must find their own way to declare the death of her child.
But the administration is very strict : no certificate of birth, therefore no death certificate. But why is there no certificate of birth ? Because motherhood, after all his mistakes, refuses to issue a as it has not made a delivery…
Yet, the young woman who was normally monitored, with all the ultrasounds needed proof of pregnancy, will learn 10 days later that the analyses curettage (d & c final revealed that she was pregnant of a little girl. It was unfortunately suffering from a genetic abnormality, trisomy of chromosome 18, the origin of death in utero. Again, she has learned that verbally. Still no paper and no opportunity to register his baby was born dead on the family book… and grieve.

Simply recognize pregnancy

The chief of the maternity ward has never seen such a collection of errors and, by his own admission, ” don’t know what to say “.
The young mother just wanted to see his child but it was refused to him. She suspected the wise-woman who was shot in the hunting of water have, in some way, laid her baby.
It does not seek damages. By his courageous testimony and poignant, when we called, she only asked 2 things.
First, that the inhuman treatment that was inflicted on the maternity ward of the Haven could not be inflicted on another young mother. Secondly, that the certificate of birth to be written in the most short time, or that the administration of the state-civil is going to put on record the death and to register, finally, the child in the family.
In order to make progress in this delicate matter, the mother bereaved has appealed to the Minister of health, as well as the First Lady, to require the hospital to recognize his mistakes and make his grief. Writing Why Doctor, as a whole, is révulsée by this treatment monstrous inflicted on a young mother, abused and grieving.

We don’t know who of the hospital, the administration or the Department of Health will be the first one to repair these errors cascade, but we support this young woman in her approach and we call on our colleagues to do the same.