Helen
ICSI Twins + miracle BFP
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DH and I both had the day off today so that we could make our 2pm appointment at hospital for our tour of the delivery suite. When I'd booked it, I'd rung the delivery suite who gave me another number to book through. So I rang them and they told me that they only did tours at 1pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Can you guess where this is going? Got there to be told that they only do tours on Sundays and Wednesdays! Having spoken to the midwife there, we think that with all the transferring of calls I ended up being booked in at their sister hospital across town.
Anyway, she was lovely and showed us round anyway, so we had a personal tour! Saw the delivery suites, the anaesthia room, the operating theatre and the recovery room. All seemed nice enough. They had just finished the planned c-sections for the day and there was a woman in the recovery room with her new-born baby and suddenly it all seemed really real. I could imagine myself being there in a few weeks with our little ones.
Also bumped into our consultant who stopped and had a chat with us and was really reassuring about the level of care we would get afterwards. Apparently there is a transitional ward where early or lower weight babies go that isn't SCBU but isn't the normal ward either and where they have a higher ratio of nurses with plenty of experience of multiple births. Given our situation we'll probably end up in there. If not, even the main ward itself isn't huge considering the size of the hospital.
Feel pretty happy with being there, not that we have a huge choice, but at least it felt pretty comfortable.
So anything from 3-7 weeks to go
Anyway, she was lovely and showed us round anyway, so we had a personal tour! Saw the delivery suites, the anaesthia room, the operating theatre and the recovery room. All seemed nice enough. They had just finished the planned c-sections for the day and there was a woman in the recovery room with her new-born baby and suddenly it all seemed really real. I could imagine myself being there in a few weeks with our little ones.
Also bumped into our consultant who stopped and had a chat with us and was really reassuring about the level of care we would get afterwards. Apparently there is a transitional ward where early or lower weight babies go that isn't SCBU but isn't the normal ward either and where they have a higher ratio of nurses with plenty of experience of multiple births. Given our situation we'll probably end up in there. If not, even the main ward itself isn't huge considering the size of the hospital.
Feel pretty happy with being there, not that we have a huge choice, but at least it felt pretty comfortable.
So anything from 3-7 weeks to go
