I wonder if this is the same at Frances Perry?
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I wonder if this is the same at Frances Perry?
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It's just a joke. When are they going to re-open all those birth centres they closed? And when are they going to fund more?
Kelly xx
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That poor little bubba, and still- born twins....
I would definatly be going "homebirth" I lived down there.... What a sad and sorry state...
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which royal? in melbourne? god thats terrible!
It's a fairly obvious thing to happen though:
Scare everyone that birth is terrible and dangerous.
Open a big new state-of-the-art hospital for dealing with high-risk situations.
All the scared people want to have their low-risk pregnancies cared for at the big hospital "to be safe".
The hospital is over-subscribed by people without need. Overworked doctors end up treating everyone as high risk because there's no time for case-by-case reviews of women's situations. The hospital becomes dangerous for low risk women AND high risk women.
If people realised that hospital is for high-risk people and that the best way "to be safe" is to get APPROPRIATE care, rather than over-blown unnecessary care, these things would happen less. Of course shutting down birth centres so women have no choice BUT to go to the big shiny hospital isn't going to help matters a great deal either...
Bx
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exactly what i have been thinking!
they need to lower their intake low risk births and refer people back to their local hospitals and only take those in the immediate area and those classed as high risk, this is what this hospital should be used for HIGH RISK, not everybody who wants a new public hospital with their own room!
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I wanted to go to Frances Perry (the private part of the Womens) to birth this baby, and my OB strongly recommended against it as the Womens was so understaffed and resources. He said that if I needed CTG or any other monitoring, then the wait is horrendous. He stated that they have 150 outpatients appointments at a time, yet their is only 90 chairs for expectant mums to sit on!!!
He agreed to book me in there in case i went early and needed a level 3 nursery ( I did last time) but i have also booked into St Vincents (with a doula!) as well.
The conditions that the staff had to work under are terrible- they are so stretched it is not funny! So much for streamlining the system and making the resources that we have, more accessable and productivity- moving the womens and Frances Perry has been the worse move for women and birth that this government has made!!!
It has taken it backwards! not forwards! I loved the old Frances Perry. My twins were there for 33 days so i got to know the place really well, but unless something go wrong and i go before 34 weeks, I wont be going back there again!
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The Royal Women's Hospital IS my local hospital - I am within walking distance so I don't really have a choice
Nai, homebirth? Or is there a birth centre or anything like that?
Bx
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exactly nai!! your local, the way it should be!!The Royal Women's Hospital IS my local hospital - I am within walking distance so I don't really have a choice
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It's interesting reading seeing that many women seem to think that going to the RWH will somehow give them something better than what is available at their local hospital.
The stats on the deaths are hard to comment on as I think most hospitals that have maternity wards lose babies (and mothers) from time to time so this could be no worse than any other hospital.
I gave birth at Dandenong Hospital a couple of months ago and there was no noticeable shortage of staff during labour nor in the post natal ward or the special care area. If anything we got far more attention than I would ever have expected. My favourite midwife had just left the RWH and was far happier at Dandenong. She always had the time to sit on my bed and have a chat to me when things were not going as expected. I don't think that would happen at the RWH.
I think women need to put more trust back in to their local hospitals and the RWH should just concentrate on the riskier births and direct all low risk pregnancies to local hospitals - I think they are doing a lot of this anyway - maybe they need to do a bit more of it so they can cope with what they take on.
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I just do not understand how they can have been able to plan this hospital (and the RCH for that matter!) without including planning for expansion. I mean, they've been talking about the burgeoning need for maternity services for... how long?? How did this even get past the initial planning stages without someone saying, "Errr, folks, we haven't built any extra capacity into the system - do you think we ought to do something about that?"
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