Avoid Adventist hospital

[kashismum]

I've seen and heard too many horror stories that if I was to have a third and couldn't get into the Matilda, I'd go public.
I was at the Adventist for my first and it wasn't that great then (3 yrs ago).

 

[apples]

I had a baby at the Adventist in August and had a great experience. The only thing I can complain about is the food but then again, it's a hospital and i didn't go there for its Michelin quality restaurant.

 

[pookey]

babymommy - normal practice at the adventist on the maternity ward is that the baby can room in with the mother.

Kashismum - i feel exactly the same way. I wish I had booked matilda instead of the adventist. And if I was to have another, I'd definitely go to matilda

 

[Buckeroo]

normal practice at the adventist on the maternity ward is that the baby can room in with the mother.

If you have a private room, then they allow the baby to room in with you, but if are in a ward (even if it's semi-private), then they let you have the baby with you during the day, but they take the baby back to the nursery for the night and would bring him to you only when he needs to feed (if you insist on breastfeeding).

 

[AutoCAD]

I was put on a floor other than the maternity ward -we were not given a choice on this - and my baby was not allowed up from the nursery to be with me night OR day. Since I had a c-section and couldn't move from the waist down, I could not go down to the nursery to feed or even see my baby after the birth. And once I could move, I didn't have the luxury of having the baby brought to me by the nurses to feed; I received a phone call from the nurses at all hours - as did my room-mate who often slept through her calls (I was woken by her calls and mine) - to come down now because my baby was crying and needed to be fed. Every few hours I would shuffle my way through the hospital to the nursery to feed my baby. It just doesn't make sense that patients who had just been through surgery were forced to WALK to feed - or see - their baby.
Thankfully, we were successful with breastfeeding and my baby is exclusively breastfed.

 

[BabyC]

i just had my baby delivered at Adventist Hospital last week and found that there are not enough nurses there. But the nurse at the delivery suite is very experienced

 

[jjmum]

As far as I've heard from other's experiences, Matilda always seems to be better than Adventist (for O&G).

 

[rani]

I gave birth at Adventist and to be honest, had no problems at all. The nurses and mid-wives were very professional and attentive to my needs. This was before the whole bed shortage mess.

 

[pookey]

I had my first baby at adventist in 2005 before all the overbooking. Back then it was fine, which is why I chose adventist again for no. 2. I can't fault the standard of care and the professionalism of the midwives at the adventist - several of whom remembered me from '05! It's just the stupid administration policy that is plain wrong and unfair on new mothers.

 

[snowbird]

thank GOD for this forum! I'm due end of June and can't get a bed in Matilda so my OB says 2nd best choice is Adventist who is willing to take me but not without a deposit.

Went for a ward tour and thoroughly not impressed. The nurse who took us around indifferent, automatically thinks I'm doing a c-section (even though I look Chinese but I'm not local) and said there are loads of free formula available if I can't BF - and looked at me as if I was alien when I asked if there is a in-house lactation consultant. My husband & I looked at each other and said, "OK - thanks for your time" and walked out.

We're going public if I still can't get Matilda.

THANK YOU, ladies for all your input.