Due to have elective C-Section at HOMERTON. Asked to book a private room, was told this isn’t possible for the first 24 hours as they prefer to care for me on the delivery suite, unless I stay for longer than that.

[BoyMumToBe34]

Has anyone recently booked a private room at Homerton Hospital
Only if I’m kept over 24 hours will I be offered a private room to book “if available”

Delivery suite is all private rooms anyway so hopefully it won't be an issue for you.

Private rooms are in demand unfortunately, for mums of multiples, mums with contagious infections or mums who have a baby in the NICU.

Hopefully if you do need to stay longer than 24 hours there will be a private room available. Depending on the reason for ELCS, most women are discharged by 24 hours if everything is straightforward and no concerns with baby's feeding etc.

Oh so the delivery suite is private rooms? So what’s the difference between that and a bookable private room? My partner will be staying with me but he’s just had eye surgery and needs me to administer drops every 2 hours. Would he be confined to just a chair to rest on during those 24 hours?

At Homerton you will have your c-section in theatres, possibly move to recovery for a hr or so and then move to post-natal ward on the high-dependency bay where you will be sharing with (usually 1) other woman. These bays are for women they need to keep a close eye on, mostly post c-section, so after a few hrs they may then move you to a less high-dependency bay where you will share with up to 5 women and babies (and partners). After that you may well be able to go home, most women leave about 24hrs after a c-section if everything goes ok.

Side rooms in Homerton are few and far between and often full with women and babies who need them for infection, bereavement etc.

Yes, your partner will be sitting on a chair if he wants to stay overnight. That would presumably be the case in a side room too though I’ve no direct experience of that. The eye drops part is .

Hang on, so having just had major abdominal surgery and with a newborn baby to care for, you’re expecting to be hopping out of bed every 2 hours to put in eye drops??
Of course he’ll just get a chair. He’s not the patient.

Is your husband disabled? Normally people administer own eye drops. If he is visually impaired then you can get eye drop dispensers from Amazon to help.

Sounds like she's been told she will remain on DS which happens when people have certain risk factors.

What? You won't be able to get out of bed after your C section to put your partner's eye drops in. You'll have a catheter as well. This is mad.

My DH was on a chair even after we got a private room. We have twins. He must have slept on a chair for 3 nights.

He really needs to learn to do his own eyedrops. It will be too much to do that on top of looking after your baby and yourself post c-section.

Have a husband who has had multiple eye surgeries- he puts his own drops in. He doesn't need a private space to put the drops in. Neither did he need to set an alarm to do them 24/7, it's when you are awake.

You will have had a C section and a new baby. Your DH will need to step up and look after you.

Why can’t he put his own eye drops in????

What did you expect him to have? A bed aswell? Most of the time there isn’t enough beds for women let alone their partners, if he wants to lay down he can go home and come back in the morning 🙃