Loredana

In her cozy studio apartment we sipped tea and Loredana told me about her traumatic birth experience. She smiled but her voice betrayed her true feeling of frustration and sadness with her birth. “To summarize,” she said, “It was quite an awful experience.”
Loredana shared about how her doctor had been out of the country and how she then labored alone because no one had ‘orders’ to take care of her since her doctor was not present. Loredana expressed her anger at then being rushed into an ‘emergency’ cesarean section for a breech positioned baby that she was aware of since pregnancy. She had repeatedly told her care providers of the breech diagnosis since she had arrived seven hours before in labor but no one had listened.
Loredana also explained that she was forced to walk to the nursery, after having a cesarean section, three times a day and in the evening to nurse. Baby Marius, though healthy, was not allowed to stay with her in the room. The breastfeeding problems began almost immediately from lack of contact between mother and baby!I was impressed with Loredana’s perseverant spirit. She continued to pump and breastfeed through her difficult hospital stay and at home... as a result Baby Marius is a healthy and smiley baby!
These lactation visits, postpartum visits and simple conversations that I have been having with friends and clients continue to impress me with the need for current information to be taught, women to be empowered instead of degraded through their birth experiences, and the GREAT NEED for a birth center in Bucharest.