Hm, silly me, I thought it was my labor that generally hurt, not the SIX ATTEMPTS TO SHOVE A NEEDLE INTO MY ARM!!!

This is why I am SERIOUSLY looking into becoming a midwife. I want women to receive more compassionate care. I feel I can provide that.

So the nurse doesn’t know how to insert an IV, and it’s somehow the mother’s fault? Defensive much?

yeah, and notice she’s not complaining about the labor?

“I do not consent to any more attempts at an IV. You are dismissed.”

No, I’m sorry, I had no idea you were too incompetent to start a line. Please find me someone who knows how to do their job. Thanks.

And before some defensive nurse/friend of nurses comes along (and I have nurse friends, too) I say that as someone who is hard to find a vein on–six attempts is ridiculous. I’ve been stuck repeatedly throughout both arms and it was incompetence that caused it, because as soon as someone WITH the competence to do it came along, lo and behold, two sticks and I was done. If it takes you six painful tries, you should have stopped earlier and got some help.

Wow. That’s so rude.

I felt kind of bad for the male nurse who was inserting an IV during late labor with my second baby. I didn’t know I was hitting transition, which is why my contractions were so close with almost no break.

He was so sweet, and didn’t want to be poking me during one, and I’d say “Ok it stopped” and he’d walk over, and I’d start going “Here it comes!” Transition is probably to blame for why I don’t remember exactly getting the IV, just the comedy of that poor guy, trying to do his job, but not at the expense of hurting me during a contraction.

Thankfully, he was compassionate enough not to blame me for being in labor!

Call a COMPETENT phlebotomist. In the meantime, Nurse Ratchet, here’s an orange for you to practice your jabbing technique.

It seems like the worst cases of insensitive comments, tactlessness, and sheer callousness quoted on this site come from nurses. What is it about the nursing field that seems to bring out the verbal abusers, anyway? I have friends who are nurses, and they’re all very compassionate, but it seems like with a nurse, you either get an “angel with a lamp” or you get a nightmare, and your odds of receiving either are about 50/50. My experiences in the ER when I’ve been hauled in with a migraine that won’t respond to any of my rescue medication (this happens once or twice a year; if I vomit more than six times, I figure it’s worth the misery and expense) bear this out.

There’s little in between the two extremes. Weird.

OMG. Whatever. Like this is even necessary at this point!

I was 10cm with a footling breech baby when they tried this many times to start an IV on me. after about the third stick, I was starting to get worried and wondered WTF was going on. Finally the anesthesiologist did it. Of course, this was before a c-section so a little more emergent, but at this point it was a little late for this mom to get an IV! Good Lord.

Wow… this nurse needs bedside manner lessons!
When I was in labor the corpsman that stuck me six or seven times trying to get an IV in me at least had the decency to be embarassed and apologize for the problems.

Jeeze this is something that I could have posted (though I didn’t) because the nurse said the exact same thing to me. It didn’t take multiple tries, but I am incredibly phobic of needles. She was starting a pitocin drip and was jamming a needle in a vein near my wrist. She looked annoyed that I didn’t like what was going on (and I was too intimidated to say anything) and made the same comment “Didn’t you know childbirth was going to hurt?” Yep, I knew CHILDBIRTH would hurt, but didn’t exactly plan on an unfeeling nurse cramming a needle in my arm hurting.

Competent nurse to room 15 please.

I hope they just gave up on the IV for the poor lady who posted this.

I’m thankful for the law in FL. If a person fails to start an IV after two sticks, if requested they are required BY LAW to get another person to do the IV. When I was getting prepped for my second unneccesarian, the nurse tried twice and said, “I need to go get my trainer.” I said, “Uh, yeah you do because you’re not sticking me again.”

I was in recovery after giving birth by c-section I had really bad shakes and they held my arms down to put a canular in them as the doctor didn’t put it in properly in the first place and I was screaming as my arm burned. I was screaming that my muscles are tense and wait till the shakes are gone. They did not listen, they forced one in my hand and it didn’t work and then put one in my elbow. It gave me hell the first night with my daughter as everytime i bent my arm to care for her the alarm went off, made it hard to nurse her. The next day I cried and begged them to take it out.

This happened to me. They called in 3 different nurses and screwed up the IV I didn’t even want 5 times before they finally stuck it right into the vein on my wrist. I told her I was going to puke if she put it there, she basically said “Well there’s no where else it can go” and stuck it in. I barfed on myself as she told my husband to “grab a bag for me.” I continued to labor in bed because I was so out of it from the needles, my labor stalled and they did everything I didn’t want, they broke my water and gave me pitocin..never again am I going to a hospital to give birth.

I have an ongoing terrifying fear of needles that i have been dealing with ever since I was 11 because of this exact thing. I was going to get my appendix out and the damn nurse took six tries to get it in. I understand one or two times for a noob. But if its more than that i will be demanding a new nurse to put it in. My fear of needles is bad enough i will cry at the thought. And in response to the stupid nurse “yeah i thought the pain would be in my hoo ha, not my arm. Learn how to do your damn job!”

Thanks for intodcruing a little rationality into this debate.

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