ribboninthesky - I wouldn't want to give birth in Arrowe Park either. The times I've been there is has been far from clean, and while the doctors have been nice (the nurses haven't), they're not the best in the world in actually treating you. It doesn't help knowing some of the staff either, and their opinions aren't high =/ I hope the maternity area will be better. That said, you don't usually hear the good, only the horror stories. Let me know how things went there! I'm still thinking that I want to move back to Holland before I'm due (not that I'm pregnant yet). But if that wouldn't be possible, I'd be stuck with Arrowe Park (or private)
Ema - I do hope your complaint will be taken serious. Even just the acknowledgement that they made a huge error in not checking you over properly would be something already.