Apols for the re-post, this is also over on 'Pregnancy'.
I've just been round the post-natal and labour wards at RLH - they're the only ones I've ever seen, so have nothing to compare with. But, initial impressions were:
- very clean and inviting
- calm and quiet! (I was expecting something much more ER-like and noisy, maybe it was just timing =)
- super-friendly midwife who took us round (they've all been, in my experience around the E3 area)
- super-hot (DP won't like it), but with air con in the rooms
- nine OK-sized rooms (one room with a pool, only one room with en-suite)
- average of 15 babies born there each day
- two theatres - felt a reassuring ratio for the nine rooms
- epidurals - 2 anaesthetists in daylight hours, 1 during the night
- apparently the average labouring woman will see 1-4 midwives, depending on length of labour, which seems fairly logical given they do 8 hour shifts
So, I'm feeling pretty OK about my choice to deliver there (DC1).
Anyone have any recent (say, 2009/10) experiences?
Thanks so much in advance - happy to hear both good and bad of course!