This may be a stupid question but can you have a c-section on the nhs but

[TREBUCHET]

pay for private after care? I thought the staff were amazing when i had ds but I felt so unhappy with the care afterwards. Is this possible, anyone? I know in some hospitals you can pay for a private room but its not poss to book at ours. Thanks

I did that, I had to wait on the main HDU for 24 hours after the c section because of complications, then got a private room for the rest of my stay. I couldnt book it beforehand, and its a case of if there is a free room you can have it.

Was well worth it, espesh for visitors and your own phone and privacy.

They like to keep an eye on you for 24 hours or so after c section and threfore prefer you on the main ward rather than popping along to private rooms, but i think you should be fine doing that.

In our hospital you could pay for a private room if there was one free. I had one when in for suspected DVT but I didn't have to pay for it. The midwife took pity on me after seeing who was in the next bed.

do you mean a private (ie single) room or private care?

Most hospitals wil do the private room thing (for a fee ) - but it's normally the same staff that would have cared for you on the main ward anyway, so you get more privacy, but no extra help/care if that makes sense.

trebuchet - at our hospital, they like you to be on bay of four for 24 hours after cs before they try to find you a 'private' room (for free). MW explained it was so that there were three other mums around in case you croaked it/needed help and couldn't reach your buzzer alarm thingy - and so the most 'demanding' mums were all close to the nurses station.

I just meant the room.

We did book a private midwife for number 3 but it was a bad decision.

At my hospital you can book a private room for after the CS and you have a higher ratio of staff/patient your hospitals website will probably have some info on it.
It varies at about £100-£150 per night from what I can remember at my last hospital and this one.

Notabanana can i ask why private midwife was a bad idea? Im looking into this and only had good stories so far was interested in your experience?

We didn't book her until 31 weeks and she came round one morning. She turned my baby without asking if she could or telling me she was going too and with my history it could have been a very dangerous thing to do. Also, for the 9 weeks I had left, she was going to be away for 5 weeks so I could quite easily have had someone tend to me who I had never met. Defeats the point of an independant midwife imo.

Thank you :-) i'll check mine's availabilty and contingency for holiday etc i never thought of that.