Essex - St Johns Hospital in Chelmsford or Basildon Hospital

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Help please!

Need to let doctor know ASAP (tomorrow) which hospital I want to use. Anyone have experiences of the above hospitals?

Thanks

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Asked my dh who worked in Essex for NHS and had experience of each and he said without hesitation St Johns. I had dd1 in Southend and was concerned about going into labour at work and ending up in Basildon - for me the big drawback would be having a baby with ex-students or current students also there.

we moved to Danbury when dd1 was about 2 months old and she had all her outpatient visits at St Johns - cannot fault the paed ward and the staff in any way - fabulous.... ( dd1 has down syndrome and a congenital heart defect that required surgery at 8 weeks old)

When I was pregnant with dd2 - she would have been born at St John's had we stayed there but we moved to Australia. Had some antenatal care at St John's in early pregnancy and again they were fab.

Am sure there are others who may have had babies at Basildon and found it fab - can only speak for my personal circumstances.

Whereabouts are you? Is distance and time and issue??

sorry late to the thread - no pc for a couple of days.