Any Scottish people on here......

[LieselVonTrapp]

Where did you have your baby(s) and how did you rate the hospital?

I've been around

Had DD1 in Ninewells, Dundee. OK experience. Nice facilities. Good Bf support.

DD2 Vale of Leven (when it was a CLU - now MLU). Bad. Only glad I'd done it before and could stand up for myself for I'd have ended up on my back with Pethidine whether I'd liked it or not. Bf support non existent. Again, glad I knew what I was doing.

DS QM. OK, stayed less than 24 hours so don't have much to comment on. The "low intervention" unit (think they call it the "tower" suite) was good and midwife lovely - I only had one for the delivery.

Have heard good things about the SG and my community midwife for DD2 and DS is there now.

Simpsons in Edinburgh for no.1 but only months before it closed. The staff were lovely but the place was run down and manky beyond belief. My Mum's eyes were out on stalks when she came to visit cause I had been born there during the days when 'matron' ruled and boy was it different.

Second time ERI - pretty good care on the whole but short staffed and out in the middle of nowhere and a nightmare for vistors without a car.

Aye, zippy, DH spent a total of £80 parking there when I was in after DD1.

One baby born in Thurso, that's long since closed!

Two born in Perth Royal Infirmary. Labour care was excellent, postnatal not so good. It was a CLU back then, now a MLU and I suspect much quieter because so many mums get shipped to Ninewells.

I had dd1 in the Vale of Leven - terrible birth but wonderful post-natal care, but that was 19 years ago so it's possibly completely different now.
Dd2 and ds were born at the (now closed) Eastern General in Edinburgh, which lots of people I knew raved about but I found absolutely appalling. Well, the births were fine but the post-natal care was the pits. Midwives totally useless and uncaring to the point that I seriously considered making a formal complaint after ds.
Dd3 (2 years ago) at St. Johns in Livingston and I was quite happy with everything there. Good birth experience (used their water pool) and good post-natal care too. Would recommend it. Also parking is only £1 regardless of how long you use it and free in the car park for the maternity unit.

I had ds 5 months ago in QM, I have mixed feelings about it, totally hit and miss, some midwives were fantastic and some not so great, but I think the main problem is they are totally understaffed, overworked and it must be really bad for staff moral to be working in such a outdated and badly maintained hospital. My birth was good, but I wouldn't stay in hospital a moment longer than I needed too next time, I was exhausted and on the verge of PND when I got home.

Had dd at Rottenrow, now closed and demolished and it morphed into Princess Royal where I had ds not long after it opened(2001). I had Dr Alan Mathers too as my consultant. He was the Director and a brilliant doctor with a dry sense of humour. Lovely hospital and staff, could have been cleaner then, don't know about now.

by the way, liesel, why do you ask?