Need some advice - Lulumama, or any other ladies who could let me know their experiences.. I am 30 weeks and due to give birth at the Brent Birthing Centre, which is a nice new m/w led place that is wonderful and relaxed, with pools and a home from home atmosphere. Today I had an apt for my 30week check up and it was with our consultant. He was a very nice man. He said he thought I should come in for a 35week scan that he himself would do. I asked why as I was told I wasnt due another one and I had been having a normal pregnancy. He said as I had had 2 m/c he would like to perform another one, and Im not complaining, I love being scanned. He then made a comment where he assumed that I would be giving birth at Northwick Park hospital, which is the hospital where the consultants come from to the birth centre (even though the BC is actually at Central Middx hospital) When I said no I was hoping to at the BC, the consultant paused and said OK if thats the kind of birth you want, but you do realise there will be no doctors and if you need one its a 20min transfer in an ambulance? I was shocked at this (well who said I will need a dr? why bother having this place if thats the case? etc). DP then started asking questions about what was better - M/w's or doctors etc etc and we ended up rather confused. I tried explaining to him afterwards that I would rather birth in a pool at the b/c not in a hospital ward with a consultant but found myself tounge tied when it came to spouting facts and figures about interventions (i need to present him with facts, its easier)
SO gettting to my point at long last, can anyone who has comparable experiences let me know, or maybe theres a great link you can give me that has stats on interventions and natural births... sorry this is so long.
Thanks Ladies x
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Consultant has gone and confused my DP with talk of hospital birth instead of m/w lead..
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RedKennedy · 07/03/2007 18:17
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