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Nicki V

1 reviews | Active since Jul 2020

17 Jul 2020, 16:27

Early induction and normal ******l birth after all.

I'm very upset. Last year i found out I'm preganant, I'm not on medical aid and i refused to give birth at one of the state's hospitals. So i started my appointment at about 4/5 at Lakeview Hospital in Benoni, so i moved to my dad in order to save every month to pay my birth of R20 000, at about 35 weeks i had to go book my bed and found out that the total cost is going to be R39 000, and i could not afford that. My grand parent's then recommended Kathleen's mother and baby clinic. So after all the birthing cost apart from the appointments and R1000 discount was R15 500. Gladly i paid that off every month because it's not bad and the service is far more better. So in the beginning i signed some form to confirm that in the case something happens and i can't go forward with normal birth and they need to send me to a hospital that there won't be any refunds or so .. so i signed i was very positive that nothing would go wrong because they only do normal ******l birth. So long story short, last week Tuesday i had a check up appointment and my blood pressure was high, after the 3rd time she prescribed blood pressure pills which cost me R422 and she said to come back the Wednesday to check my blood pressure again. Again it was high, so I'm not quite sure how blood pressure works what is fine and what not, then she did a internal investigation down there .. after she was done she asked me if i was ready to have baby .. she said that i need to go home get our things and come back .. keep in mind that my due date is only the 20th of July, we'll was. I did so and came back with our things and my partner, they put me on a drip, induction and kept checking my blood pressure which was still high maybe one or two time fine. At around 5 o'clock one of the ladies broke my water and soon after contractions began. So later on we would notice they take my blood pressure everytime after a contraction. She told me about preeclampsia and stuff and a possible fit and that i could maybe not give normal birth .. at around 01:00 the Thursday morning she told me there is nothing they could do for me anymore and that I'd have to go the the hospital so she phoned an ambulance, once the ambulance came, while still at the mother clinic the guy checked my blood pressure twice and it was fine, nothing wrong. We got to the hospital, now that's another story !! They did exactly the same as the lady at the mother clinic, checked my baby and took my blood pressure regularly and again, nothing wrong. At 04:35 i gave normal ******l birth to our baby boy. So at the end nothing went wrong and i feel it's a bit unfair that we can't even get some of our money back. I could gave given birth with them after all .. i was willing to save for my birth just because i did not want to go to a state's hospital, it was terrible .. and we don't get anything back and how many have gone through the same experience as me?!

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