Qld mother speaks out after horror birth
A Queensland mother is demanding answers after doctors at Gold Coast University Hospital sent her home because they didn’t believe her water had broken.
Brittany Spriggs says she nearly died after giving birth to daughter Jasmine on January 13.
The first-time mother says she went to the hospital a week before the birth and told doctors she thought her water had broken.
'I woke up at 39 weeks to a pool of water in the bed,” she told the Daily Mail.
“I went to the hospital that morning but they told me to go home because it was just a watery discharge.”
Ms Spriggs said staff only realised their mistake as she was giving birth.
"They went in to break my waters but they’d already broken at 39 weeks,” she said.
“So there was infection there and issues around that.”
Doctors performed an emergency caesarean but Ms Spriggs began hemorrhaging after the surgery.
She said the last thing she remembers is telling doctors "please don't let me die," before she was rushed back into surgery.
The young mother was placed on life support and woke up three days later.
Ms Spriggs decided to speak out about her ordeal after hearing of other horror stories at the hospital.
“I didn't search for answers at first because I thought it had just happened to us,” she told the Daily Mail.
“Now I'm hearing more stories about (complications) there and now I'm thinking why is this happening so much.”
A hospital spokesperson said there were around 100 difficult and complicated childbirths at GCUH every year.
Doctors reportedly told Ms Sprigg’s they could not say what had happened to her and that it had never occurred in the years they had been practicing.
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