"We found out before her first birthday that she has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and also has a unilateral hearing loss that has progressed to profound (meaning that her ear doesn't work at all, even with a hearing aid) I cant help but think that this was caused by her delivery. No one is willing to say that though."
Read MoreTara's Story - McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton
"It shouldn’t matter a person's background whether married or not and no doctor should say so openly they think someone had a stillborn. That moment alone devastated me. My baby didn’t die and for the most part was healthy. A persons age doesn’t determine if they are good or bad parents either."
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Read MoreA's Story - North Bay Regional Health Centre, North Bay
"My mom asked the nurse to check the next day before we were discharged but they never did and said I was fine. I was only home for a day before I had to go back to the ER. I ended up having an infection in my uterus and was admitted with my newborn to the paediatric ward for a week."
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Read MoreTasha's Story - Mackenzie Health, Richmond Hill
"At this point, I had no energy to push. They were going to give me a C-section, but then insisted on vaginal birth. I could not even push properly, I had nurses complaining to me that I didn't know how to push properly and my baby ended up getting stuck. They needed to do an episiotomy and use the forceps to get him out."
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Read MoreJ's Story - Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, Oakville
"I re-played the situation several times, wondering if I should have said something differently or not had the epidural. I've never had a situation in which I felt so out of control and it was hard to overcome."
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Read MoreK's Story - Stratford General Hospital, Stratford
"I personally feel like my emotions and concerns during one of the most life changing experiences I will ever have were completely disregarded and not taken seriously. I was petrified and confused because of conflicting things that were said and feel like I was a burden on that doctor. I feel like I wasn't taken seriously because of my age, the fact that I'm a young single mom who was having her first baby, and that I was alone without a partner while I was in labour."
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