I need some advice from all you lovely mummys out there. I'm pregnant for the first time (still early days, got my dating scan in just under 2 weeks) but all the info i've read has suggested thinking about the birth already which seems perfectly sensible to me.
The problem being i've been set on a hospital birth seeing as its my first time; but i was watching the local news the other evening and within the past year there have been several (avaoidable) deaths in my local maternity ward; i know about another death that wasnt included in the report as it happened to a relative of a women i work with, and the hosptial admitted they caused the problem. Measures that have been implemented to try and fix the problems within the unit havn't worked and there are talks of closing the maternity unit down.
I dont have all the details at the moment, myself and DP are going to talk to our midwife asap, but my problem is i dont think i'd feel comfortable going to that unit even if it doesnt get closed down, but i'm not sure what my other options are.
Any thoughts?
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Potential problems with the hospital, what would you do?
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Emilou87 · 22/03/2010 11:19
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