Hi all, and hi Fruity! I went to St George's for my booking in appointment and had a bit of a shocker on all fronts. Whilst waiting for the appointment, a pregnant lady in front of me starts to chit chat, asking me if it's my first and all. I say yes, and she says that I'll like the hospital as it's not as bad as some others, and I tell her I am planning a home birth. At which point she replies "oh you are brave; my baby would have died if I wasn't in the hospital".
Hmmm, not much you can say in reply to that, now is there?
So I go in for my appointment and we get half an hour into the medical history and what not, and she gets onto a screen and clicks on something without asking me the question, and I say - hang on - go back one... and it's the question about where you want to have a baby. She had clicked on hospital and I said "actually, I'm having it at home" and her face drops and says "oh, in that case you can't do it through us - you have to go to Thommies because of your catchment area" (was also the Ivory team Fruity). So that was that - got my stuff and have come home to get another referral from the GP!
Not quite what I had been hoping for.
Ho hum -- guess I'll report back in a couple of weeks with my NEXT booking appointment.
x