Greta Chick
Happy mum of 3 :-)
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so we're set for a homebirth if the birth centre is still closed.
I'm frantically looking for a pool now, though if I don't find one it won't be the end of the world. I've been looking at childrens' paddling pools but can't find any high enough. Does anyone know if any shops sell them fairly cheap?
Hubby still isn't convinced on a homebirth, though he's going along with it for me. He just can't get it into his head that it's as safe as being in a hospital if you've had a trouble-free pregnancy. He doesn't get it that there's nothing they can do at the birth centre that they can't do at home. The midwife told us she has oxygen and a basic resuscitator (sp?) in the boot of her car along with the Entonox.
She did try briefly to convince me to go to the main maternity hospital by saying they're short on midwives at the moment so they're all at the main unit and there may not be any community midwives to come out to me when I go into labour. She followed that with "have you actually been on the labour ward? You can arrange to have a look around when it's quiet, maybe that's something you'd like to do?" Err no, thanks. They deliver around 16 babies a day and when there's a shortage most of the midwives go to the high dependency end of the labour ward - so basically the other end which she said is for low risk ladies are the ones who get left as I already knew. Oh and she said if I'm not going to buy or hire a birthing pool and I want another waterbirth, my best option is to go to the main maternity unit (where they have ONE pool!!!!) With 16 women in labour at once, it's not likely I'll get the chance to use the pool there is it!
I told hubby they may well try and convince us to go there when I do go into labour but that we need to stand our ground and if they don't send someone out when we need them to we ring an ambulance.
Fingers crossed the birth centre will be open but it's not looking likely at the moment
xx
I'm frantically looking for a pool now, though if I don't find one it won't be the end of the world. I've been looking at childrens' paddling pools but can't find any high enough. Does anyone know if any shops sell them fairly cheap?
Hubby still isn't convinced on a homebirth, though he's going along with it for me. He just can't get it into his head that it's as safe as being in a hospital if you've had a trouble-free pregnancy. He doesn't get it that there's nothing they can do at the birth centre that they can't do at home. The midwife told us she has oxygen and a basic resuscitator (sp?) in the boot of her car along with the Entonox.
She did try briefly to convince me to go to the main maternity hospital by saying they're short on midwives at the moment so they're all at the main unit and there may not be any community midwives to come out to me when I go into labour. She followed that with "have you actually been on the labour ward? You can arrange to have a look around when it's quiet, maybe that's something you'd like to do?" Err no, thanks. They deliver around 16 babies a day and when there's a shortage most of the midwives go to the high dependency end of the labour ward - so basically the other end which she said is for low risk ladies are the ones who get left as I already knew. Oh and she said if I'm not going to buy or hire a birthing pool and I want another waterbirth, my best option is to go to the main maternity unit (where they have ONE pool!!!!) With 16 women in labour at once, it's not likely I'll get the chance to use the pool there is it!
I told hubby they may well try and convince us to go there when I do go into labour but that we need to stand our ground and if they don't send someone out when we need them to we ring an ambulance.
Fingers crossed the birth centre will be open but it's not looking likely at the moment
xx
