City Hospital, Birmingham - Serenity Suite **wow**

[Rebecca_B]

I'm seriously considering asking if I can go there now. I haven't been booked into Walsgrave as I was considering a home birth to start with (don't feel comfortable with it though) and this would be a great compromise being a birth centre

Bubbles i emailed kathryn gutteridge whos dealing with enquires on the birth centre

I said i was located in cov and was there a criteria for those wanting to have their babies there but are living outside the trust.

She has invited me in to see her and have a tour.

Sounds like there is no restrictions on who can birth there......

 

[mushmouth]

Wow rebecca! That's great! They all (that I met anyway) seem so nice there! I hope they meet your expectations!

 

[bubbles]

Unfortunately hubby isn't going for it, I know he's right as neither of us drive we would have to rely on our parents to get us there and back and I have already told him I don't want ANY visitors until I've been home for at least 24hrs so we can get Ed introduced to baby and I can have some rest (that includes hospital)

 

[Rebecca_B]

Arrr what a shame...............

My hubby also started to moan about having to drive 35 min instead of 5 mins to walsgrave but i put him straight. Its me having to give birth if all he has to contend with is a 35 min drive to Birmingham then he should think himself very bloody lucky and to put a sock in it!!!!"

 

[Natasha2605]

Wow sounds amaaaazing! xx

 

[emmajayne]

I dont have a choice. This sounds amazing. My local hospital is Walsgrave but i have to Lri to have my baby. Travel there every 2 weeks at min. Im a complicated one

 

[josephine3]

Ok ladies I know this thread is really old but i ended up back at bnb while searching for 'serenity birth centre'.. can anyone tell me is this birth centre actually AT the hospital or nearby? Some centres are standalone and I dont fancy being transferred by ambulance! I know im early thinking but we have to pick our hospital soon apparently!

 

[Jaysmummy]

Ok ladies I know this thread is really old but i ended up back at bnb while searching for 'serenity birth centre'.. can anyone tell me is this birth centre actually AT the hospital or nearby? Some centres are standalone and I dont fancy being transferred by ambulance! I know im early thinking but we have to pick our hospital soon apparently!

The Serenity Suite is part of City Hospital its just basically down a different corridor to the "old" delivery suite (which is still in use) If you needed to be transferred it would literally be 2 mins down the corridor.

There is a new stand alone birth centre open in Smethwick too called Halocyn but like you I am not keen on being transferred by ambulance if (god forbid) anything happened. Even though this one is closer to me I think I still want to go to Serenity.

They are both beautiful by the way

xx

 

[Alandsa]

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread but I wondered whether any of you ladies knew whether someone can have their post natal care here if they needed to stay in hospital after giving birth?

 

[Jaysmummy]

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread but I wondered whether any of you ladies knew whether someone can have their post natal care here if they needed to stay in hospital after giving birth?

No if you need to stay you would be transferred to the main ward

I had Kaiden at 8.35pm and they give them 6 hours before doing their newborn check or you can go home when you've showered and got sorted and have the newborn check done at the 1st mw visit.

I was showered, had tea and toast and filled in all post natal and discharge forms by midnight so I went home then

Don't get me wrong they don't rush you or anything. You just can't physically stay if you need attention as they don't have beds as such. And if it wasn't a natural, straight forward birth you would be transferred to main ward anyway

Xx

 

[Jenny_J]

wow your so lucky, id love to be in a midwife led unit, il bet the overall experience is much better.

 

[Clarabell543]

Which hospital you at JennyJ??

 

[Jenny_J]

Which hospital you at JennyJ??

I had the choice of Birmingham womens hospital or heartlands. And I chose BHW, better the devil you know ay? Even thugh my first c section and the after care was horrific. Now im older id like o see them try it with me now lol, I wont stand for any crap.

I wish Soilhull hospital still had doctors there, I had my 2nd section there, it was fab, and so was the after care, I cannot praise them enough, but now they are midwife led only

 

[Clarabell543]

ahhh so you would never be able to have midwife led anyway then! I am at Birmingham Womens too, this is my first and my pregnancy has been pretty text book thankfully so as it stands I will be in the birthing centre, my friend is at heartlands after moving from dudley area to sollihull but had a bad labour with her first so couldn't go to midwife led either. My doc offered me the choice of bham womens or redditch. Just signed up to donate cord blood at BWH now they have the facilities, hope it helps someone!

 

[Jenny_J]

ahhh so you would never be able to have midwife led anyway then! I am at Birmingham Womens too, this is my first and my pregnancy has been pretty text book thankfully so as it stands I will be in the birthing centre, my friend is at heartlands after moving from dudley area to sollihull but had a bad labour with her first so couldn't go to midwife led either. My doc offered me the choice of bham womens or redditch. Just signed up to donate cord blood at BWH now they have the facilities, hope it helps someone!

I have my fingers crossed for a smooth delivery for you hun, might see you there some time, lol. Il be in for scans a lot from 2 wks.

Im going to donate cord blood too, I never new about it, untill I saw the posters there when I went for my scan.

 

[Clarabell543]

I know it isn't for everyone but for me if it is just going to be incinerated it might aswell help someone! I have filled out my forms but haven't had chance to take them in, don't like driving into town!!

 

[Jenny_J]

I know it isn't for everyone but for me if it is just going to be incinerated it might aswell help someone! I have filled out my forms but haven't had chance to take them in, don't like driving into town!!

Is the cord blood our blood or babys? It doesn't matter which, im just interested Mine is a rare blood type, so hopefully they will be happy with it.

I totally agree, everyone should give what they can to help others, esp if it's only going to be wasted otherwise.

 

[Clarabell543]

I have no idea actually I hadn't thought about that! Exactly as long as baby is at no risk I have no problem with it if it can save someone else. Suppose it is one of those 'each to their own' things that seems to crop up a lot during pregnancy lol