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MAMA-KANGAROO 313
What year did you give birth? In 2005. In which town and hospital? In Sombor’s Maternity hospital. Did anything unpleasant happen to you in the hospital? What? Did anybody insult you? How? I have to admit that nothing unpleasant or insulting happened to me, but I am not of Roma nationality (these women do get insulted). How were you addressed in the hospital? By your name and last name, or some nicknames? Which ones? Mostly by my first name and my surname, seldom as ‘mother’. Were there any problems with the accommodation or with the medical equipment? What sort of problems? Bed sheets are changed once a week – so if you give birth in the middle of the week and leave the hospital by the end of it (that was my case, admitted on Wednesday, discharged on Sunday), you don’t get clean, or at least washed bed sheets. Another thing is that the temperature in the rooms is too high, so the women sweat on those nylon sheets and end up with a cold (when they open the window to air the room). When did you see your child for the first time after giving birth? How often did you see him/her? Could you see him/her whenever you wanted? I gave birth at 7.30 pm, and got the child in the morning, a little before the doctors’ rounds. I came out of the bathroom and found a small wrapped package on my bed, with soiled diapers for who knows how long – his poop all dried up on his bottom, and no nurse to be found. My child could have fallen off that high bed, with me passed out in the bathroom. From then on they didn’t take away my baby. When did you breastfeed your baby for the first time? Were there any problems with breastfeeding? What sort of problems? I didn’t know how to breastfeed my child and there was nobody to ask – what was I supposed to do with the arm next to the child? Did you ever happen to doubt the expertise of the doctors and other medical staff? When and why? No, never. Did you ever doubt whether some of the hospital protocols and rules were justified? Which ones? Why? How would you change them? Why are panties forbidden? Isn’t it easier to hold the hygiene pads between your legs? At least they don’t move around that way. Did you have to bribe anyone? If yes, whom (you can state just his/her title, without a name)? What for? How much? Yes, but I don’t want to talk (write) about it – Sombor is a small town and I want more children. Do you have any other impressions or comments that you consider important? No, except that I think it would be better to discharge the babies (with their mothers , of course) when their umbilical stump falls off. After all it is a very delicate thing for new mothers to deal with on their own (who knows when or if the health visitor will come).
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