Wow, they’re even condescending to each other!

Maybe they practice on each other!

Hmm. A postpartum hemorrhage is defined as a blood loss greater than 2 cups. A 2 cup measuring cup next to a 2 liter bottle of Coke is a BIG difference, as I’m sure it was to the mom.

This doesn’t surprise me. Most people tend to talk to colleagues at work in a way that would be viewed negatively by outsiders. What does surprise me is that they were heard!! Can I ask who heard them make the comment and whether it was overheard or did the OB appear not to care that they might be heard?

Maybe the one OB was the mother and the other was attending her birth?

Not that it matters, it’s a nasty thing to say that a dangerous postpartum hemorrhage is “just a little bit.”

They were arguing over my bed in C/S recovery after nurses called an OB higher up the food chain. The nurses were not happy with the resident OB in charge. By this stage I was going into hemorrhagic shock and required numerous units of blood.

I lost 750 ml and was told that I bled “a little more than usual.” Didn’t realize for a really long time afterwards that it was officially a postpartum hemorrhage.

Nah, 2 liters is nothing (sarcasm). Its only enough to kill a person.

I lost two litres on the table after my third caesarean – I didn’t ‘need’ a transfusion and was put on iron tablets for 3 months. My son needed a transfusion as the placenta was cut. I felt dizzy and a bit out of it, but they still made me walk to the next ward after 22 hours and sent me home after 2 nights in hospital. I disn’t realize losing that much blood was a problem, as I haven’t been told or treated as if I nearly wasn’t here any more. This was 11 months ago,and I don’t think I have processed it yet. But it truly sucks that the ‘professionals’ would be so dismissive in earshot – my theatre nurses were nothing but efficient and responsible.I have had no follow up treatment, me and my son are ok – he is a gorgeous healthy (nearly) toddler and his big brother and sister love him to bits!