article_snippet: A tribunal hearing has found a midwife failed in a midwife duty of care to a teenage mother who a midwife told to 'keep a midwife legs together' after the young mum suffered a vaginal tear while giving birth.
article_snippet: A New Zealand Human Rights Review Tribunal found a midwife did not give appropriate care to a teenage mother after a teenage mother suffered a vaginal tear while giving birth .
article_snippet: After examining Ms B's perineum - the area between vagina and anus community nurse Natasha Thomson told the womon's mother there was a tear.
article_snippet: the midwife said a tear was not a bad one, referring to a tear as only a 'tiny tear'.
article_snippet: community nurse Natasha Thomson looked at the midwife patient's perineum again and then advised Ms B to be 'ladylike', and to keep the midwife legs together and change the midwife pads on a regular basis.
article_snippet: the midwife also had not told the new parents how to properly care for the wound, which was at risk of infection.
article_snippet: Ms B was found to have experienced a second degree vaginal tear that Ms B was successfully treated for at Wairau Hospital .
article_snippet: the defendant checked a second degree vaginal tear that she was successfully treated for at Wairau Hospital and told Ms B that a second degree vaginal tear that she was successfully treated for at Wairau Hospital was 'healing fine'.
article_snippet: At no stage did the defendant refer Ms B to a medical practitioner to assess a second degree vaginal tear that she was successfully treated for at Wairau Hospital.
article_snippet: It was then Ms B also asked the doctor to check Ms B perineum.
article_snippet: the doctor called an obstetrician to assess an obstetrician and an obstetrician was found to have experienced a second degree tear that an obstetrician was successfully treated for at Wairau Hospital.
highlights_snippet: After examining Ms B's perineum the mother said there was a 'tiny tear'
  the mother told Ms B to be 'ladylike', and to keep the mother legs together .
  