Glasgow Hospitals

[melie13]

Hi - breach of etiqutte here - - its dh... We've just moved to NW of Glasgow - and found out dw is pregnant with No3! Anyone any views on the hospitals up here - we've no idea....cheers

Personally, i found the bf support at the qm quite dire. I didn't bf dd1 but told everyeone that I wanted to bf dd2 and wanted support as hadn't done it before. Anytime I rang for help I would wait about 20 minutes on a mw arriving. Noone ever asked me how I was getting on with it. Dd2 had been in the world for 6 hrs and still not fed. I kept asking the mw's if this was ok and should I try and they kept saying just to leave her until she was hungry. I have since heard, you should try and bf baby as soon as possible after the birth. AS I said previously, I felt there weren't enough mw's and they were always really, really busy. Maybe I just had a bad bf experience there because she wasn't my first child.

HappyMammy - I use to live in Scotstoun many many moons ago. I have friends still in knightswood and family in Clydebank, so I am still back in Glasgow every couple of months. I still get really homesick. Hoping to move back up in a couple of years. time.

my friends had the same experience at the QM, one had to refuse to be discharged before the women from the specialist unit came down. i think the help is there but you need to put your foot down to get it iykwim?

Mmm, yes colie, I had a less extreme but similar experience re: bf support at the QMH. They had good intentions re: me buzzing every time I wanted to do a feed but there was rarely anyone free.

Luckily for me, my community midwife threw up her hands in horror when I got home with terrible damage to my nipples caused by poor latch and infection and referred me back to the QM - to the specialist bf counsellors who are amazing. Ironically, their office was on the same corridor as my postnatal ward but your midwife needs to refer you and noone did.

WOW. Can't believe this response! Thanks everyone......Good to see everyone has opinions. We're a bit twitchy 'cos No1 was crash section...2 was elective and 3???? lord knows but it's the last. Will take us an age to get through all these! Will keep up to date as things progress tho!!!

sorry i was a crash section forgot to say that RAH was great consultaints fantastic x

I still cannot beleive I did not know you were pregnant Expat!!

Mahooosive congratulations to you and much broodiness from me. xx [I will email you to congratulate you properly though]

I don't like to put fear into the thread but I have noticed on the news a few times, one of the hospitala in Glasgow seems to have a super-bug thing going on at the moment so be extra careful ladies and check for this.

that's good to know, sheena, in case i need to go to RAH.

i'd like a homebirth or midwife unit, but i've had some problems in the past - namely anaemia, bad oedema and blood pressure spikes - that will make that impossible if they occur in this pregnancy.