ELCS Heartlands or Womens Hospital ?? Help please

[sagahani]

Hi all,

I am looking for any informations about ELCS in any of the above hospitals please. I am at Heartlands atm, already seen one consultant where the meeting took less than 5 min and basically I got a big fat no, and ob/gyn pulling faces at my reasons for requesting an elcs! She basically said they don't grant any elcs at this hospital :/

I will be meeting Mrs Katherine Barat next Tuesday and was wondering if anybody has any experience with her please? Or any other consultant when requesting an elcs at Heartlands. I am afraid I will have to change hospitals just to get the elcs granted. It is so unfair that we can't decide what we want to happen with our babies and our bodies!!

Thanks :]

[LadyKooKoo]

Why do you want one? An ELCS is really expensive so dependent on your reasoning, anywhere you go could say no.

[Molotov]

I had a maternal request ELCS at The Women's in 2012.

It was a hard fight to get it, but I got it.

I didn't want the ELCS 'just because': I had a very real reason. It just wasn't a medical reason according to my OBGYN.

[RedToothBrush]

LadyKooKoo Sat 25-Oct-14 12:20:20
Why do you want one? An ELCS is really expensive so dependent on your reasoning, anywhere you go could say no.

Sigh.

Not true. As detailed in the NICE guidance, cost between a planned vb and ELCS is negligible and they state it should not be used as a reason to refuse a request for an ELCS. Hospitals are deliberately using this widely reported fallacy to improve their CS rates.

Why is it you want an ELCS sagahani? Your reasoning might affect your experience wherever you go. How you present your reason can be as important as the hospital you are at.

[jerryfudd]

I've had two at heartlands. Twins first time and presenting one breach but they really didn't want to. Kept saying at each appointment "maybe they've turned so you don't have to have one" but scans showed they were going nowhere. When waters went few weeks before booked date they even got a portable scanner down to ward to scan one last time to see if they could get out of doing it!

Had to have second because of scar tissue issues from previous surgeries which were flagged following first section. They didn't really fight that one.

[LadyKooKoo]

That would depend on your definition of negligible I suppose. The cost is £2369 compared to £1665 (according to NICE guidelines) so a 42% increase. I would not consider this negligible.

[RedToothBrush]

That's the cost without considering down stream costs.... if you read the NICE guidelines properly and not selectively.