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I thought I'd share some stories that my wife has told me over the years regarding her experiences working on one of the wards at the local midwifery hospital.
I'll give a little background about the ward first to put things in perspective. This particular ward is were terminations are carried out for both personal and medical reasons, there are also two bereavement suites were parents who have lost their children whilst in the hospital can spend time with them.
My wife has always said that the ward has a very oppressive atmosphere especially when empty of clients, which is not surprising when you consider all the traumatic experiences that have occured there.
The first experience happened to one of my wifes colleagues. The person in question had gone outside onto a small roof garden attached to the ward for a cigarette, whilst out there this person saw a baby crawling towards them, they then ran terrified back onto the ward and refused to go anywhere else that day by herself.
On another occasion the day shift were handing over to the night shift and everyone was in the ward office when a buzzer in one of the rooms sounded, which can only be turned off in the room that they were activated. The room in question was one of the bereavement suites were a family had recently finished spending time with their recently deceased child whose body was in a basket in the room. When the staff got to the room they found it bereft of anyone living and were at a loss to explain who had activated the buzzer.
Other events include sightings of a toddler running around, the sounds of chanting coming from the bathroom of a room someone was resting in as well as a pair of old ladies sat in the day room.
My wife trained as a psychologist before turning to her current career and is not prone to making up fanciful stories and she assures me that the people who reported the stories to her are of impecable character and seemed genuinly terrified by their experiences.
I'll give a little background about the ward first to put things in perspective. This particular ward is were terminations are carried out for both personal and medical reasons, there are also two bereavement suites were parents who have lost their children whilst in the hospital can spend time with them.
My wife has always said that the ward has a very oppressive atmosphere especially when empty of clients, which is not surprising when you consider all the traumatic experiences that have occured there.
The first experience happened to one of my wifes colleagues. The person in question had gone outside onto a small roof garden attached to the ward for a cigarette, whilst out there this person saw a baby crawling towards them, they then ran terrified back onto the ward and refused to go anywhere else that day by herself.
On another occasion the day shift were handing over to the night shift and everyone was in the ward office when a buzzer in one of the rooms sounded, which can only be turned off in the room that they were activated. The room in question was one of the bereavement suites were a family had recently finished spending time with their recently deceased child whose body was in a basket in the room. When the staff got to the room they found it bereft of anyone living and were at a loss to explain who had activated the buzzer.
Other events include sightings of a toddler running around, the sounds of chanting coming from the bathroom of a room someone was resting in as well as a pair of old ladies sat in the day room.
My wife trained as a psychologist before turning to her current career and is not prone to making up fanciful stories and she assures me that the people who reported the stories to her are of impecable character and seemed genuinly terrified by their experiences.