Posted on 02/06/2010 7:50:37 PM PST by myknowledge
A Welsh mother has been jailed after she bit a midwife who was helping to deliver her baby.
Leanne Pennington, 26, was sentenced to 20 weeks in jail after sinking her teeth into the arm of 41-year-old midwife Carolyn Burden during the final stages of labour at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil last May, news website southwales.co.uk reports.
Mrs Burden, herself a mother of four, went back to help deliver the baby after receiving first aid treatment.
Pennington, classified a "high risk patient", admitted to the assault which left Mrs Burden with a swollen and bruised arm.
"It was completely out of the blue," Mrs Burden told southwales.co.uk.
"I was taking care of the woman in labour and she bit me.
Mrs Burden was forced to undergo six months of HIV and hepatitis tests, which turned out negative.
The midwife has since returned to work, but is still troubled by the incident, saying it made her feel "very vulnerable".
Yes.
Now go take your pills.
Uh-oh... I’d better not let my husband read this. I bit his shoulder during labor with our first...
I have yet to read the article, but I think labor and delivery should be basically an automatic temporary insanity defense. Even the nicest animal in the world will bite when they are stressed and in pain — and that includes humans.
Then again, if it was the same nurse I had for most of the labor with my 3rd child, I’d say good for the pregnant lady cause that witch deserves to be worse than bitten!
Tell your hubby he’s lucky - I did bite mine!
Thank you so much — at least I’m not the only one who has done that to her husband. We were sitting on the bed and he was holding me - the contraction came and next thing I knew my teeth were on his shoulder, and he was yelling instead of me.
That is so sad.
My first experience was a nightmare with nasty nurses.
After that I switched hospitals after I got good word/of/mouth recommendations.
It was a longer drive, but worth it.
So births 2-6 were “natural” -they gave me shots of staydol, but no epi.
The babies were getting bigger so 7&8 required inducement and epidurals.
I learned you have to whine for the epi long before you actually need it. From the time you start whining and they make the call to order up the medicine and find the anasthesiologist, it’s an hour before they actually walk into your room.
I tell all first time moms - start whining at 4 centimeters! And be really annoying about it!
I had my 3 in different hospitals in 2 different cities. And states. The natural birth was good but the dishonesty of my doctor was awful. And with the last one, once the nurses realized what had happened, it got better. Now I’m past all that, no more babies. Grandkids are nice. All the fun and none of the work. :-)
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