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AIBU to think this car park should ONLY be for mothers?

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HuwsLineIsItAnyway · 28/07/2023 11:59

Our local big hospital has a maternity unit.

There is one small car park in immediate proximity to the maternity unit. No other departments have an entrance from this car park.

There are three large car parks on site but all are either on the other side of the hospital or the next closest to the maternity unit means climbing a massive hill to the Mat unit.
Every single time I've been here - both in this pregnancy and my previous ones - the small car park is chock full of visiting relatives, leaving a number of heavily pregnant and postpartum mums to either have to navigate the entire hospital or tackle the hill.

I view it the same way I view dads sitting in the waiting rooms and leaving pregnant women to stand.

It would be so easy to adapt the existing barriers to scan a pass (they scan staff badges) given to expectant mums.
I'm just being grumpy and sore and refluxy but AIBU to think it?

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Sometimeswinning · 28/07/2023 19:30

JenniferBarkley · 28/07/2023 19:24

But that's my point - if you park elsewhere at the hospital you're blocking someone else. If you don't park at the hospital (I usually parked at Asda or took a taxi after nearly missing an appointment in the carpark queue) then fair enough.

No one is parking at a hospital for shits and giggles.

It's hyperthetical. Let's agree to disagree. I'll get the bus when visiting and you park where you want.

Spottypineapple · 29/07/2023 08:18

It's not Watford is it?

Because having had to walk from the bottom of that bloody car park to the maternity unit at 41 weeks pregnant I'm inclined to agree 😂

Flisss · 29/07/2023 08:20

I still get what you're saying, but saying people don't need visitors is a bit ridiculous isn't it.

Turtlegurl888 · 29/07/2023 08:22

I have always thought parking spaces at hospitals should be prioritised for people who have medical need to be at the hospital rather than visitors. No idea how they'd police that but it used to really rag me off when I had SPD in pregnancy and had to park half a mile away and walk. I also missed half of my 20 week scan and had to come back because I couldn't park, despite arriving an hour before it was scheduled. Not sure if it should be JUST for mothers but definitely just for hospital patients. Visitors can walk imo. Or be dropped off, there's no urgency for them.

HuwsLineIsItAnyway · 29/07/2023 17:03

Fair enough correct title to patents only. The reason I said mothers only is because the only entrance on the same side of the building as this car park is the maternity unit.

All other patents are easier going in the main entrance, a&E entrance.of the "side" entrance, all of which are on the other side of the building- along with the other car parks.

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PowPurry · 29/07/2023 20:07

YANBU!!
our ‘local’ hospitals (one of two choices both over 40 mins away) car park is always so full they are queuing on the main road and police have to get involved on a regular basis.

I am back and forth with my job and regularly say “imagine being in labour now” but equally “imagine having a seriously ill child —insert other relative—“, it’s a complete no go.

My DC very conveniently decided to come in the early hours so we could park, luckily.

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