clarification on private and public hospital

[nicolejoy]

Dr Chan is great for if you want to deliver in the public hospital, and he's one of the cheaper "expat" doctors as well. I found him wonderful and would totally recommend him.

 

[starbucks2]

You need to decide first if you are going to deliver public or private. If public then only some private obs will take a patient who intends to deliver in the public system (Patrick Chan is one that does, plenty of others don't). I have friends who saw a private obs throughout their pregnancy (to avoid the LONG waits at the public hospital) and then delivered at QMH. Some did a combination to keep the costs down and only saw the private obs for the important scans at 12 weeks and 20 weeks.

If you are going for a private hospital delivery then, as above, you need to book very early (at 9 weeks) and your doctor will tell you which hospitals they can deliver in.

If you have full insurance then I would totally go for Matilda and then you can choose almost any of the obs.

 

[NewBabyLA]

Anyone know how much Dr Doo charges for delivering at Adventist?