ok what sort of poeple wer e on your ward if you were in hospital

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We are still friends now, 6 years later!

I come from a more suburban area and obviously some of the patients were from other less wll off areas (link to the snob thread).

Obviously, was a ward for at risk mothers like Oldies (like me) and others where the children were probably deemed at risk. My fellow patients had no teeth/gold teeth/fag breaks every 10 minutes/ and girls who had a posse of about 20 visting every evening. I was on the ward for 6 days after a delicious forceps delivery.

Can't be that booked though as I am going back in Jan/Feb to have dd2. Actually is a fab hospital and the midwives and staff are great - just hope to have a private room this time around.

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When I had ds2, I felt like an older mother!
I was 30 at the time & was surrounded by teenage mothers, other than 1 of them & she was on baby #5!
I then went to a birthing center, where the girl opposite me, explained how she had left the bloke she was with for 9 years, for some bloke who was doing their roof tiles & after being with him for 2 weeks, planned a baby together, because it felt right!!!

pmsl cod

road and five are the worst things as blady saverners dont understand it

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When I went on my Parentcraft visit to the maternity ward and saw all the other "inmates", I decided immediately to have the private "amenity room", which was £50 per night, even my normally tightarsed DH agreed straight away. We're not normally snobby at all, but these people were scary.........

Oh dear I must have been the freak of the postnatal ward when I had dd1 as I was a teenager (but not chav or local and was married). It was in the 70's and there were at least a dozen women on a huge ward. We were made to stay in for a week even if there were no complications. The Matron came after lunch every day and made us do postnatal tummy exercises. When the doctor came round 24 hours after I'd had dd to check me, my stomach was completely flat with no stretch marks (there are some advantages to being a young mother) and he looked really shocked and asked me if I'd really just had a baby. I remember a woman opposite whose baby would not sleep at all and she shouted at him constantly until the Matron came and took him off to the nursery so we could all get some sleep. They showed us how to put nappies (terry ones)on and how to bathe the babies as well. I think I was the only mother to breastfeed on that ward.
When I had dd2 I was also the freak because I was then 40 and already had a grandchild but luckily times had changed bigtime and I left the delivery suite with dd aged 8 hrs old and didn't even see the postnatal ward.

when i was having dd, i was kept on the assesment unit until i was in established labour (never got to the labour ward but thats another story!!) there was a very young girl of maybe 15 or 16, who I presumed was actually giving birth due to the noises she was making, she was being told to take deep breaths, to relax, her boyfriend was saying you are doing so well, it turned out she was having an injection!! god knows what she was like when she was really in labour. when i was on the ward with my baby there was an annoying woman that used to leave her baby to scream while she went out for a fag, and, a cleaner tried to mop under my bed, and used the buttons to raise the bed up, she hadnt noticed that the babys cot was caught on the bed and when it raised, it tipped the cot up, just about managed to stop dd falling out, she didnt apologise. this was in the homerton. i will be having a home birth next time.

I'm obviously luckier than I even knew!
I was in a 4 bedded room for 5 days with 2 other women and we had all got on brilliantly (in a "Tenko" - we're all going through this together way).
We all have little girls whose births were within hours of each other, meet up every week and are giving our dd's a joint 3rd birthday party.
The 4th bed in the room was occupied by about 3 different women during our stay and those were mostly quite strange people! One was a 16 year old girl (bless) and a memorable incident involved the father of her baby turning up and getting into a fist fight with the girl's mother out in the corridor...
Just your luck, I suppose.
I'm bricking it about ever going back to have another baby 'cos I know I won't be that lucky twice....

cam i would never ever think of you as being a freak fgs

ok this is really not a nice story.

a woman came in that looked really ill had no bump but was 1 wk over. she was induced and baby was born and put next to her. when she went for a fag she took baby with her. she came back pushed the buzzer and said baby wasnt breathing. the baby died. tuns out when she went for a fag she was also injecting herself with heroine and gave the baby some 2. she said it was cos he was crying

OMG, that is so terrible...I am definitely getting one of those amenity rooms this time round as well....

fuck

she didnt even seem bothered just said well at least i dont have to change shi**y nappies

Thank you Fio dahling

But I did do the double freak whammy

Why couldn't I have had children in my 20's and 30's like everyone else

Did she get arrested for murder Starshaker?

well if it makes you feel better Cam, i had one at 22 and one at 23 in a an area where it was 35 onwards and everyone EVERYONE asked me if i was married or had a partner

maybe i was the freak too