I never knew you could get records from the hospital!!
My daughters birth was so traumatic, and I heamorraged all over the floor etc (the nurses then saw fit to let my family in who were waiting in the waiting room, including my father in law before they cleaned me up), but in the carbon copy i got for my blue book (only a very breif description), the midwives stated i had only lost about 350 mls,,,,,yet bloods taken before i left hospital about 6 hours after the birth stated i was so low inblood, i should have had transfusions. My gp was utterly disgusted when he saw the results. I was also coralled into trying to get of the bed after only having an epidural only about 40 minutes earlier to shower by one of the male midwives, as a result, I collapsed going up the stairs into the tub because my legs were still mumb, and nearly broke my leg. I had people rushing all over me to pack my leg with ice, and about 5 minutes later, an official looking lady shoved some kind of waver under my face, and they insisted i sign it. I was so out of it at that time (after the blood loss, and considering i had laboured all night long to birth a stillborn little girl) that i think i would have signed anything just so they would leave me alone.

I feel so cheated even 9 years later, but we had decided to not sue the hospital, even though the lawyers we spoke to were positive we would win, and let it go. I dont think that my birth details would be correct though, considering that they stuffed up with the blood loss report etc. I just wish I had known about getting records earlier