HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEWS!!!
Oh my god have you seen the news, about hospitals turning women in labour away because theres not enough room!! Thats just disgusting, especially if they turn first time mums away at least mum swho already have kids know what is going on.
When i was in labour with my son, i got a mw who basically told me that she didnt really know what she was doing as she had qualified 10 years before and had worked on the baby ward since. She said she would check how far dilated i was but added that she was unsure if she was right.
It ended up that she was wrong (she said i was 2 cm, when i was actually 5cm) then she had to keep leaving me because she had 2 other women to look after. She was a lovely women, who was obviously very over worked and she did try her best but theres only so much you can do. My hospital is one of the top maternity hospitals in the contry as well so makes you wonder what the others are like.
Its definately scary
When i was in labour with my son, i got a mw who basically told me that she didnt really know what she was doing as she had qualified 10 years before and had worked on the baby ward since. She said she would check how far dilated i was but added that she was unsure if she was right.
It ended up that she was wrong (she said i was 2 cm, when i was actually 5cm) then she had to keep leaving me because she had 2 other women to look after. She was a lovely women, who was obviously very over worked and she did try her best but theres only so much you can do. My hospital is one of the top maternity hospitals in the contry as well so makes you wonder what the others are like.
Its definately scary
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My local maternity unit closed down not long after I had my son so now I have a half hour drive to east surrey hospital.
Not one of the best places by all accounts. The other places close would be Haywards heath which is always closing because of not enough midwives or brighton (40 mins away)
Home birth is looking better each day.
Sarah xx
And the hospital I'm at are so crap that making an appointment is useless. I know that the ward was hardly full when we walked through there. There were so many empty rooms. But I was surprised to find that there were so little delivery rooms
Tash+Bump
Good luck to all you ladies & hope you all have good experiences
Hilary x
Tammi xxx
27+5
I had Ollie by elective c/section 6 1/2 yrs ago! I was meant to go down in the morning (having starved etc) but was kept waiting til the afternoon (still on nil by mouth). Then after I had had him there was no room on the ward so they started "making me a little ward" on delivery suite! My dad and best mate actually visited me on delivery suite but then about 4ish I was taken down to the ward because a bed had become free!
Whilst in hospital there were cases of mothers being turned away because the nearest local hospital had had their maternity ward shut down (or it was on the verge of closing).
I thought "things were meant to get better?"