Catching up again with this thread - LadyThompson, I'd be glad to answer any questions you have about Lindo. And well done, Kaboju, for booking. I agree with slinkiemalikni that you need to get on with your doctor: that should be of upmost importance. When I first went into the Lindo i was a bit startled: it certainly wasn't spanking shiny new. Cantankerous old lifts, pretty ancient-looking carpets on ground floor, plain painted walls etc.
But the staff - they were brilliant. Well worth every penny of however many thousands we put on our mortgage! I too had Mr Miskry, who was calm, lovely, non-pompous. Dry sense of humour, young enough not to be an old buffer but old enough to make you feel you were in v experienced hands.
My room - well i gather it wasn't as lovely as Princess Di's - she had a pish-posh corner one, apparently. Mine didn't have a great view but did have a/c - tbh, was so happy lying in bed with my new baby being waited on hand-and-foot that i didn't much go in forstaring out of window.
The room wasn't amazingly big but it was spotlessly clean and comfortable. It had its own shiny white shower-room with spiffy little Lindo sponge bag and bubble bathy things. Enough space for a nice-enough camp bed to be put up for my dh and still to be able to open the wardrobes! Enough space that two days after my CS I had seven guests in at once and that was OK by the hospital (I was on morphine that day, so was somewhere happily in orbit and didn't really notice how many people were there ).
What it did have, which was what really mattered, was a constant stream of experienced, gentle, encouraging, fantastic midwives (I still remember a particularly terrific one called Agnes...) coming in and out with painkillers, jugs of water, topping up my epidural, sorting out my bf latch, spiriting my dd awayfor 40 mins to the nursery when I needed a bit of sleep, showing me how to give her a bath (yes, am first-time mum), coming to ask if I needed anything rather than waiting for me to ring the bell. Oh, it really was heaven. Lovely woman anaesthetist[gets all nostalgic again]. I'd almost go there for a mini-break.
Only downside I'd say were the traffic wardens outside. Theywere complete buggers. They lurk and pounce. There are quite a few pay and display bays thereabouts so just start hoarding pound coins from now until you give birth and then you should be OK! It's just outside the congestion zone, by the way, if you make sure you approach from the west,north or east.