Kingston Hospital anyone??

[first1]

I'm booked in to have my first baby there in May, but have heard nothing but horror stories. Please fill me with positivity!

Hi, I spotted this was unanswered. There was a thread a while back asking for comparisions of Kingston with St George's, and Kingston came out best iirc. Try searching for the old threads.

I was at St G's (and happy there fwiw), so can't help with personal experience, but friends who used Kingston seemed happy enough with it, and one is going back for a second in May too.

Best of luck! Remember people only tend to post the horror stories.

I had my dd at Kingston, fared well compared with a lot of my friends' experiences at different hospitals. Kind of depends on which midwives you get, but most of mine were great and the aftercare was good-ish (thought some of the 'help' from midwive was a bit but I did end up in my own private room, which was looooovely)

Hi first1 - it was my thread the one about Kingston vs. St Georges. Kingston definitely came out top, and I treid to get my care transferred there, (we're moving to the area when i'm 34 weeks - that's next week - eeek!) but they're full and not accepting any more women for March.

Have since been to a couple of my NCT refresher courses, several women there had their firsts at Kingston and had nothing but good things to say about it - I gather it's lovely.

I've ended up at St Helier (Didn't fancy St Georges in the end, and especially after hearing the opposite feedback from Kingston at NCT) which may also turn out to be a blessing - It's recently had a refurb and our NCT teacher said she's met with some of the midwives from there and the ethos seems fab...

But I wouldn;t have any worries about Kingston - my digging around led me to believe it's a very good choice - hence them being booked up, I guess...

Best of luck,

db
xx

Hi I'm booked in to kingston as well, this is my 2nd, I had DS at West Mid. I'm due mid Feb and have had a few problems throughout with blood pressure and they have been great. I can't comment on the birth experience but the pregnancy care is VERY good, I don't have one complaint and I have been in Day assessment every week since 19 weeks pregnant!

Good Luck xx

I'm in this area and didn't fancy St George's so went to Chelsea & Westminster and was really happy with my experience there.

becks130 - Might have sat next to in the DAU and never known! I've had a couple of probs recently and have to say the team in there are fab.

Thanks for the positivity everyone!

i delivered at kingston three years ago and i'm going back any day now. couldn't fault the delivery staff; postnatal was typical patchy NHS but fine. haven't heard a single horror story about the place.