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I labored for 24 hours with a broken membrane, no doctor for most of it, and horrible nurses. We suffered a night of mistreatment and neglect. My fluids kept running out, my babies heart rate had several periods where it was dropping, and my blood pressure cuff was hurting me. When all of that was happening, no one came in to refill my fluids, check on us, or shed concern for my pain. There was loud beeping coming from my room and no one would come check it until I hit the call button. They told me that they were monitoring everything outside the room, but they were not. My mom occasionally went to get help when things got more concerning/scary/my babies heart rate was dropping and when she did the nurses were just standing in the hallway laughing and looking at her like she was a burden. Everytime I hit the call button They were very rude. I called and told them about my blood pressure cuff causing me too much pain and asked if it could be adjusted or taken off and the lady told me in such a nasty attitude "No, No you cannot!" Eventually I suffered enough pain and neglect that I took it off and still for several minutes, no one cared or even came in to check on us anyway.During my labor, long story short, 2 nurses were flipping me back and forth like a bed sheet as I had a catheter and other tubes sticking out of me. Initially they told me what side they were going to help me turn to and ended up talking amongst each other, confused, while flipping me back and forth. They hit one of the tubes and caused me to go into more pain then I had suffered before my epidural. When I was literally screaming in pain, they didn't even acknowledge it at all or try to help me. This night was so traumatizing I was also incorrectly stuck with an epidural needle 6 times and the nurse that was supposed to help me just let me go. I feel like if my mom wasn't there and if I didn't advocate enough for me and my baby, that one of us could have died due to neglect and mistreatment.

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