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I was followed up and I delivered at St Thomas’ and they were brilliant! I am a medic myself and I would definitely recommend it!
I had the same dilemma and in the end decided to go for St Thomas's. Only 13 weeks now but so far all interactions I had with them have been brilliant. Midwives are very nice and calm, appointments are always on time, their app with all your info works very well. Also they have a lot of support information, in person and virtual lectures, aquanatal classes etc. Yesterday I attended an 1.5h session on pelvic floor health - super informative, with an option to ask questions. It was only 5 of us and they went with it anyway. Good luck either way!
I know few people who went to St Thomas and they loved it. You can have access to aqua gym pregnancy or I don’t remember others activities.
I have birth twice at RLH and I don't recommend. Especially the prenatal care. Rude, careless. Luckily for my second birth I have 1 nice midwife and she was brilliant. It was a good birth only because it lasted for 45 minutes from arrival to delivery. They are always understaffed, you wait to get a room, midwifes are more preoccupied with writing they're paperwork rather than helping me push..insane. don't know anything about the other hospital though.
@Galina I had such a bad experience at Triage as well I’m so scared to deliver there
@Ophélie this is so coool I’m 32 weeks pregnant I think it’s a bit late tho …
@Mila so good to hear about your experience there … did you do a self referal to transfer yourself ?
You have to do a self referral filling up the online form. I don’t think it’s too late to change. Where you choose to deliver is a very important decision and I think you still have the chance to change the hospital
@Sara I filled up the self referal form online and I’m waiting for their response… it can take up to 10 days … thank you so much Sara for the support
DO NOT GO TO THE ROYAL LONDON It’s so busy and you have wait too long.
I did one appointment at royal London and didn’t like it at all. I transferred to st Thomas and even though I preferred the rest of the appointments of my pregnancy, I didn’t have the best birth. But then again. This was during covid and things were abit different. I’d still recommend transfer!
I did one prenatal appointment at RLH as it was local to me. Terrible experience, they never provided any info to me and would get annoyed with too many questions, didn’t even care that I was a ftm. I chose st. Thomas and had wonderful care all the way up to labor and delivery. However post birth care was traumatizing there. They sort of just left me to figure it all out. Disappointing.
I would highly recommend transferring to St Thomas. If you are perhaps worried about distance it’s only going to be a few more times but atleast you can hope for a better treatment.