Berkhamsted baby

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Hi all, I'm moving to Berkhamsted (house purchase allowing) in a few weeks and need to find a new hospital and doctors pretty quick. Baby's due on July 21. I don't know the area at all so any help/advice much appreciated. Thanks!

Personally I can highly recommend Luton & Dunstable had a brilliant experience (elective CS) with them last year and hoping for the same later this year. I'm classed as out of area for them but it wasn't a problem to be assigned to L&D. They also have the NICU for the area, I had twins so incase of problems this was a major factor for me. All the staff were very welcoming.

This seems a minor point but on the wards each bay of four beds had it's own bathroom after being somewhere where there were two shower rooms for the whole ward this was lovely.

I'm going back for my first appointment next week for this pregnancy and I'm quite excited to go back. Oh and I've just remembered as i didn't see it but there is a new (about 3 years old) midwife led unit as well as the normal delivery suite. If you look online they do video tours of the facilities.

I had a not so great time at Watford a few years ago, that could have just been bad timing, but I really didn't want to go back.

Hello, thanks for the advice. Once I move to the area and find a doc I'll mention Luton. I had heard Watford was a bit hit and miss. Someone had mentioned stoke mandeville as an option too.