Community Services - Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust 2018-11-26 Person 2 5 0

My care during my second pregnancy felt very disjointed. The 12 week scan revealed a cyst thought to be on my ovary. The sonographers observed it again at my 20 week scan. On neither occasion following my scans did the midwives bother to look through the notes to find out this and I had to tell them. During several appointments, I commented upon the pain in my lower left belly but this was quickly dismissed each time because I could feel baby moving. There were no checks to see if was the cyst growing that was causing the pain and I was given textbook answers like, "baby is getting bigger" and "they usually just burst by themselves". At 38 weeks I had a growth scan and asked the sonographer to see if the cyst was still there. They noted the size in my notes but again no follow up. The next day I took myself to ADU in another bout of incredible pain where the usual protocol was followed and the doctor listened to my concerns about the pain - a mere 26 weeks after the cyst was diagnosed was I speaking to a doctor about it - she was sympathetic, examined me and prescribed cocodamol. Three days later I ended up having a stressful emergency C-section where the surgeon discovered that the benign cyst had twisted three times around my fallopian tube, slowing killing it. Thanks to her skill, she first and foremost delivered my baby safely and saved my ovary. Because I had seen the same pair of doctors the day before, they could observe how my pain had increased even more than before. I feel like I should have been examined by a doctor as soon as the cyst was still visible at 20 weeks so that I wasn't so stressed and suffering so much pain with it during the second half of my pregnancy. An emergency c section and multiple visits to ADU and Maple Ward could have also been avoided if my pain had been acknowledged by the midwives and managed. Hospital staff amazing. Community midwife care poor.