Mo - I am a public patient, but I am going through the private system and we are paying for it out of our own pocket. I will get booked into the Angliss as a public patient, so we wont have to pay for the birth. I had Mia in Mt Gambier and had the same gp the whole way through, until the end when we were referred to an OB with complication (amniotic fluid had leaked out). He admitted, induced and delivered Mia, then we seen him for everything afterwards. Tay was born at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, they have a women's health clinic and a pool of doctors and its pot luck who you see. No urine tests, no weight, anything like that. Hardly any visits, they are so busy that you get the bare minimum. I seen a the surgery people around 20 weeks and they did me pre admission and went through history and all that. I could not tell you who delivered Tay, I met her in the theatre and that was that. Afterwards I got put in a room by myself and rarely seen a nurse and only seen a registrar when I was booking out to give me scripts for me meds. I think a doctor actually did come in the night I had her, but that was it. I had Tay by section on Thursday afternoon and they said I could go home Saturday lunch time! It was so impersonal, and I don't think back and say that was great that is for sure!
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