Wythenshawe hospital for birth/antenatal care/ anyone been here to hsve bsby?

[Peacenquiet2]

Im going to be asking to transfer my care to another hospital at my 28 week appointment as im dis satisfied with my current hospital. Im stuck between st marys in manchester or wythenshawe but am leaning more toward wythenshawe.
Im wondering (and hoping) some of you northern ladies have had experience of giving birth here or are recieving you antenatal care there, and how you found it, feedback would be so helpful.
Im going to be having a c section so imparticular any advice about this would be great.
Thanks in advance.

As someone said earlier up the thread Trafford General has closed for maternity services now so Wythenshawe covers a huge area now, not just the immediate locality. St Marys is still much bigger / busier I think though.

I was born at Wythenshawe. My DM had a bad experience there and so she had my younger DSis at Stepping Hill. But this was in the early 1970s.

OP I had a fantastic time there.

Started off in the birthing pool, it was lovely, was watching come dine with me all dine while puffing on G & A midwife stayed at the back of the room out of the way.

Then I had failure to progress so had to go over to the clinical side and the and have epidural. The midwife ran to get a doctor just before he was about to go to surgery so I could have it ASAP as I was in so much pain. They were great. ( although my DH shouted at at the Dr to tell him to fucking hurry up and not discuss weekend plans! )

I ended up having an ECS as I wasn't progressing and babys heart beat was dropping so they took me down.

The surgical team were lovely
the recovery team were lovely
and the ward midwives were great. I couldn't fault them

Thanks for the reples ladies.

Peacenquiet2 Sorry, only now had a chance to return to this thread.

I've not got private care, I'm with One to One Midwives which is free, they provide the service on behalf of the NHS, but feels like private care. I'm very happy with it.

I gave birth here and it's a fantastic hospital. Great care. Great staff. Good experience all round.