AIBU to imagine the comparisons between Kate's labour experience and my own? (Lighthearted)

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I was taken to the hospital in my DP's white van, my room in delivery had a cardboard window and blood on the wall..

Oh how the other half live...

Well we already know she didn't have to walk to the hospital as the car was broken down, and taxi was too expensive.

But I bet Wills won't have a nap on the floor, then spend the next 9years telling everyone how tired he was that day.

I also bet the midwife won't call her a silly girl

However,.I wouldn't.wanna be her for anything!

I think Camilla might be quite good at being a mil tbh. She's already an experienced grandmother so should be some help and anyway Carole looks competent enough.

Yes there is something creepy about the gynae thing. I kind of hope they are secretly leaving her to the midwives and are sitting outside the delivery room talking about cricket ready to dash in if a c-section is needed but otherwise keeping tehir noses out. That said Marcus Setchell did manage to get both Sophie and Louise through the placental abruption so he must be pretty competent.

She'll not have to call dp to come immediately from work as baby in distress
He'll not do the shop run for mags,drinks,chocolate

I've thought of another one - she won't be sent for a walk outside to try and speed things up as "it's a lovely day".

Her epidural will hopefully work, and she won't be stabbed with a needle (to the point where it bled heavily) to "prove" that it had worked. no it fucking hadn't worked and they realised that when they had to peel me off the ceiling

She probably won't have to bring three cardboard trays of piss to the nurses station before she can be discharged.

Why is the gynae delivering creepy? I never had a midwife deliver any of my babies

The midwife won't forget to give her toast after she gives birth to DC3, I'm still irrationally bitter about not getting my toast, although thanks to a lovely auxilary nurse I did get some lunch.

Are you forgetting what Carole does for a living? She'll have the whole palace decked out with streamers and pinyatas.

It's not the gynae delivering the baby. That's entirely rational. It's the grandmother's gynae specially putting off retirement that just seems a bit over involved to me.

I'm sure he's very competent I just think I'd take a recommendation from a friend than my aged grandmother in law.

she will not have to wait 3 hours for a parectomal ( i packed them with my 2nd child)

Or not pushed to having an epidural as soon as the synton drip went it (induced). It was my 1st baby and i wanted to see if i could go without it. ( which i did manage thanks to the pentadine)

But I do have something in common with the D of C!

Marcus Setchell was my consultant with all three of mine, one at Barts and the other two at Homerton Hospital.

He's a lovely man ( mUst be getting on a bit now tho) :)

I actually have my fingers crossed that she gets to labour like me

4 midwives between 2 delivery rooms

Labored in the dark and quite was encouraged to labour on all fours, walk, move, etc no continuous monitor dispite mencomium in waters and waters being broken for me

Gynocologist came for the pushing stage (pop his head in a couple of times earlier but knocked on the door first) and used a skate board and torch (probably best you don't ask) midwife advocated for me when gynocologist did something I didn't like in 3rd stage (i only pulled a face and she was telly gyno to stop) and he listen to her (I love her each day for that)

Had fruit juice and cake waiting for us in our room beds for both me bathroom og our own, me and dp feed 3 huge meals, snaks every 30mins or so ring bell if you wanted anything

When complications set in post birth dp yelled for help 4 midwives, 2 gynocologists, an aneastist, and a cleaner all arrived in seconds, midwives had to feed dc over night but did so by sitting me up and physically holding dc to me so they where bf ( which is what we wanted) the gynocologist and midwives came in every 15mins all night to check on me (nb they told dp there was a good chance I wouldn't see the morning) I could not have asked for better care, I felt protected, advocated for and generally felt charished

Yes this was private care

I hope Kate has a similar experience (minus the complications obviously)

Inneedofrain where did you have your babies? It's amazing that you had such a positive experience despite your serious com

**complications. I had a fairly rough birth with my dd and I think I could only face a second birth if we went privately.

She will probably have a lovely bowl of lovely creamy porridge in the morning. I hadn't eaten anything for 24 hours (just couldn't face the haribo labour snacks) and was ravenous, dh having eaten my toast as I still couldn't face food. So I was really looking forward to a lovely hot bowl of creamy porridge. Then when it came it was cold, lumpy, far too salty and almost exactly like wallpaper paste.

I might have cried

I bet she won't be snapped at by a vile midwife after I mistakenly asked if 'a nurse could take me back to my bed please' after being abandoned in the toilet (down the corridor) by another member of staff. She hissed at me 'there are no nurses here, we're all midwives' and begrudgingly escorted me back to my bed. I was post-epidural, very hazy, could barely walk and had just vomited all over said bed. In the meantime DS1 had been whisked off to SCUBU with DH as he had been half-strangled by the cord and had to be revived by crash team. All this after 23 hours of back-to-back labour. I was very, very worried about DS1 and a little kindness at that point would have gone a long way. Nasty woman. (DS1 was fine by the way).

It's a boy

I got rice pudding yummity tum.

I wonder I she, like me turned up at specified parking area to find closed
Then be driven round in blind panic by dh trying to find a space
Then end up parking in nearby supermarket and walk across whilst having contractions every 3mins,,

I don't expect someone will put one finger on her belly and say "no you're not in labour go away" only for you to go home and be in utter agony. Or for you to split in three ways and various people say "ooh what do we sew to what?". I sincerely hope she gets better treatment than I did.

They won't forget her tea and toast and leave her to starve until the next day, she didn't have a section but two hours after said crash section they wouldn't have shouted very loudly you'll have to do this yourself you know in reference to getting up feeding baby or comforting him, this was 10 minutes after another midwife telling me I wasn't allowed out of bed for 24 hours due to having a general anaesthetic

What so Kate doesn't get a midwife? Just 2 'eminent' obstetricians

Well it wasn't really about Kate, was it ? She was delivering the heir to the throne ! They could hardly take any risks could they.