I was not prepared for what happened to me
March 9, 2020
By Monday, I was on that exam-room table at my doctor’s office and then at the ER awaiting…I wasn’t sure what. Possibly an ultrasound? And referral for follow-up care, I guessed? Hopefully a change of pants, as the pad I’d put on before leaving the house had long since stopped protecting my clothes from the blood that was oozing down my thighs and up my back. But sitting in a wheelchair in the emergency room, I had no idea why I’d experienced labour pains or what else might happen.
“The emergency departments are not set up or equipped to manage these types of experiences,” La Fontaine tells FLARE. “Even other health-care professionals will tell you that’s the last place you want to be, and yet that’s the only place you can go.” I was frozen, squatting in the stall, wanting to sit on the toilet but not wanting my baby to fall in. Instead, it fell to the floor. At some point someone handed me some cloths to clean myself up, and I gingerly folded the fetus into a J-cloth and held it in the palm of my right hand. I had no desire to study it, but I was distraught at the idea of it lying on the floor of a public bathroom, a surface so dirty I would have refused to put down my purse.
“It’s not something that they see often enough to warrant any kind of additional training,” says La Fontaine. “We have a long way to go in terms of educating health-care professionals.” There is hope ahead for better care, particularly for those in urban areas with bigger hospitals. Some provinces are looking at setting up early-pregnancy-loss clinics, to which women would be referred from the emergency room so they don’t have to wait in a place that isn’t set up to serve them.
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