She [GP] asked me what hospital I would like to go to, and it was a choice out of three. And the one I would have liked to go to they've got a very long waiting list, so I couldn't go to them, so I made a second choice. She said that you should hear, she's going to send off the form to the hospital, and you should hear from the hospital and then you will also hear from your midwife, which I did later on down the line. And that was really about it. So we didn't go much into detail or anything like that.
Would you have liked more at that stage?
Yeah, [laugh] to be honest.
What would you have found helpful?
I suppose to know what the hospitals are like. I've been to, well, especially maternity, I've never been to any of the maternities in each of these hospitals that I was given a choice of, so it would have been nice to say, for her to actually recommend one for me and tell me what each hospital was like, or
So you were just given the names and you had to choose straight away?
Yeah. And I knew the names but that was it, so. And I'm, even the one I've got now, a friend of mine had hers there and it's nice, but I prefer mine to, I would have preferred to have gone to another one. And I've seen it now, but I think it's too late to change it because I'm too late, too far gone now....
So I'm not too sure how it works. But my doctor, the way, the way she seemed to me she didn't even seem like she just tried. She just said, “Well, there's a long waiting list, so there's no point in you trying for that. You'd better stick to the one you've got, that one's nicer”. And that was it. So even if I was determined to do that, she was like throwing me off anyway, so maybe if I'd pushed it a little bit more, then she would have tried it [laugh]. |
