Women's Hospital Dangerously Overloaded

[paradise lost]

I thought Nai said she was going to the Private bit? TBH i'm not sure how all this works in Aus. In the UK you get what you're given which is obstetric care, but mainly actually seen by midwives unless something goes wrong. I had a homebirth so only saw my ob twice, once at 11 weeks to tell him i wanted a homebirth and once at 41 to tell him i still wanted a homebirth and i didn't want an induction thanks.

Bx

[Nai]

I thought Nai said she was going to the Private bit? TBH i'm not sure how all this works in Aus.

The RWH is a public hospital but it has a private section called Frances Perry House. I'm not sure how the public section works as I haven't been through it but I know people who have been through there as they are in the local area.

I have private health insurance which covers me for FPH. You don't need to be in the catchment area for that section as far as I'm aware. The main thing is if your OB has rights to work there or not. My OB's rooms are in the RWH so she does work out of the RWH and FPH.

[BellyBelly]

Apparently on the design plans they have expansion options for two floors. But they didn't go ahead with it. Which is what makes this all the more ridiculous.

[Nai]

Kelly, that is true - they decided against it based on historical birth data that indicated birth rates were declining. They didn't project future birth rates which are increasing. Just like the government - always looking at the past, never at the future and what we need going forward *sigh*