Private v NHS after stillbirth

[shajna]

Hi Ladies,

I am looking for some advice here, I recently gave stillbirth to my beautiful daughter Khadija after a healthy 41 weeks of pregnancy. I was a low risk pregnancy so was under the care of NHS - community led midwifery.

Unfortunately, on the day of my contractions the local hospital I was booked in with mismanaged my labour and failed to admit me in hospital on time which possibly led to the death of my daughter.

We are seriously considering going for private pregnancy care now with my second pregnancy and wanted to know if anyone else had opted for the private care after receiving substandard care with NHS?

I am aware most hospitals that offer private pregnancy care are based in south (London) but I have been told to follow recommendations of mothers/parents rather than how glossy the hospital leaflet is.

I would appreciate if anyone can suggest any hospital or consultant they think has been brilliant during their pregnancy, private or NHS.

Many thanks

Shajna

Really sorry to hear about your daughter, it's a very difficult time but good to be looking forward. Our first daughter died at 40 weeks we stayed with the same hospital but were very lucky to have very good consultant led care next time. Have you had a follow up meeting with anyone yet , notwithstanding your concerns about mismanagement it might be good to ask how any future pregnancy would be handled. Do follow up the mismanagement if you want to. Have you visited the sands website it's a vey good resource for info and advice. Sorry you are having to go through this.