So what hospital did you give birth in?

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Following on from the epidural thread and seeign that sometimes your level of care can depend upon the area you live in, I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread on which hospital you have given birth in, or are going to give birth in and any comments ie - good, bad, excellent, etc

I often wonder if women get a rougher deal if they live say for instance, in a bigger City. I remember looking after a woman a few years ago who was having a ELCS after a really traumatic delivery in London and her after care on the wards made me so sad for her. She moved to the country and her next baby was born here, and she said it couldnt have been more different.

So fire away

indeed but just realised I posted about my experience and the whole maternity unit has been knocked down and rebuit since my post therefore comments about it being old and run down aren't relevant.

(No it doesn't matter that it's a zombie thread.)
Homerton Hospital last week. Had CS, surgical team amazing. Post natal care absolutely horrendous. Had to leave my bed in agonizing pain every time I needed pain relief only to be fobbed off with para f*ing cetamol. After breaking down in floods of tears with pain and my blood pressure going up was finally given some morphine. In the meantime having total nightmare trying to get BF going. Had to hand express colostrum and ended up topping up with formula by syringe. Slept two hours in three days while I was there and on final day was kept waiting 9 hrs after discharge for paperwork and prescription only to discover I was being sent home with... Yes PARACETAMOL!!!! GP has now given me proper pain relief but the damage is already done... I am completely traumatised from the whole experience, v worried now that it has wrecked my chances of BF. Sorry for rant but I have been up all night with baby and am at the end of my tether and furious with this hospital.

1st: east surrey - induction at 36eeeks - went fine, postnatal care fine :)

2nd: antenatal care at east surrey then transferred to royal
Surrey for delivery at 34 weeks due to feeling unsafe about the care I was getting at east surrey - royal
Surrey was amazing, only issue was midwife disbelieving I was in labor and stating I was 0.5cm dilated and baby born 7mins later! Delay getting scbu to the delivery room due to this error but all was ok. Scbu for 2weeks - excellent x

3rd: royal surrey for antenatal care till 24weeks when after a horrific scare we transferred back to east surrey - delivered at 35weeks via EMCS and was excellent care! Home just under 24hrs after surgery only issue was discharged with only paracetamol :/

Countess of Chester x2

First in 2011 care during labour ok, aftercare in the hospital not the best but I was on a quieter ward with only two others so MW's didn't need to come into the ward often.

Earlier this year care during labour fab, I had quite a few problems once dd2 was (nearly) here, shoulder dysticia which mw nearly broke her finger dislodging then a retained placenta so emergency theatre trip then I had what looked to be an infection brewing all staff were great. Anethnatist came to the ward the following day to chat to me, as did others I felt very well looked after. After care in the hospital was great too. I had a private room but still was able to access bf support etc easily.

Mw care during both pregnancies was great same MW for every appointment - except when I had a worry then I saw another mw at the same childrens centre that day. Only problem was my commumity mw was on holiday when dc was born each time (diff mw's) so my aftercare after leaving the hospital was rather patchy as I had a different mw each time who didn't know me but that was really unavoidable.

Bf support excellent, with dd1 I was very worried about one of my nipples bleeding so rang the hospital who sent out a bf councellor the next morning, who then went on to send out another and another came after that until I was happier with how things were going and so were they. They would have been happy to continue to do home visits however I said I would rather visit the bf cafe - which was also excellent.

Stepping hill in Stockport.

Elcs first time and emcs second time. Great care both times, especially the second time as I had spd and couldn't decide on vbac or not.

2 births at hillingdon hospital

labour/delivery ward care was fairly good

postnatal ward awful hence why i went for a home birth with my 3rd last month

My second child was born in the Chelsea and Westminster and I was delivered by Mr Richard Smith. It was the early 90's, the MW didn't spot my ruptured uterus and bladder and he and his registrar saved both our lives.

The MW with my first child was incompetent too so unless I was just unlucky I'd never have a MW led birth again. I don't think things are better now. They are worse.

Ha Ha, both hospitals have gone now but were

DS1 and Ds2 Norfolk and Norwich - Norwich City Centre
DD Billinge/Wigan

All 3 DCs at Queen's Hospital, Burton-on-Trent.

Despite a 14 year age gap DC1 & 3 were delivered by the exact same midwife!

They saved my life twice. I have no complaints.

Darent Valley, Dartford.

Almost killed me and left me with severe PTSD. Never setting foot in there again.

Barnsley Hospital x 2 emcs (1 crash) also in and out several times in each pg with hyperemisis.

Superb, I cannot fault them on anything. I think Barnsley was the second hospital in the OP's example. If it is not, then someone else has written an article comparing birth experiences at Whipps Cross and Barnsley.

Two births at St George's, London.

Antenatal care fine (no classes at all for first time mothers though), in fact excellent in 2011-12 when I ended up visiting MWs or consultants every other day for a few months.
Delivery care - good to excellent. Lovely anaesthetists and theatre/recovery staff in particular, and all very careful with my SPD.

Postnatal - had to stay in 3 days in 2008. Day care good/excellent, night care appalling (formal complaint made, nightmares for months).
In 2011 I was apologised to finally, and reassured that since then instead of night care being 90% agency staff, it was now 90% regular salaried staff and one heck of a lot better - honest midwife said she wouldn't like to guarantee that it would be 100% good but if it wasn't it would be because of an individual or unexpected workload rather than being a totally shit system. And we agreed nowhere else was likely to be better.

I did have to stay in when I gave birth in 2012, and the care was totally faultless from everyone on the ward, down to the cleaners who had clearly been trained to assist women with food trays etc if needed. So not just down to MrNC who admitted after, that when he left me he had gone to every staff on the ward to tell them they had better treat me right this time or else! Other women I knew who gave birth in 2012 had variable but none to bad experiences.

Odstock hospital in Salisbury. Maternity unit in old part, feels fairly dated.

I can't fault the midwives during labour but did at times feel they were overstretched. Had to wait ages for anaesthetist for epidural as only 2 on duty in whole hospital. The consultant I had was awful and if it hadn't been for a change of shift and new consultant able to tell that Ds clearly wasn't coming naturally, after being allowed to go for hours and hours, I think outcome could have been scary.

Postnatal ward was great, lots of help, loads of support with breastfeeding and generally felt well looked after. The HCA'S were amazing, probably underpaid.