Choosing a hospital

I opted for LGI as it was the hospital my mum was a midwife at for over 30 years. Great experience from induction to delivery and postnatal xx

Never considering bri again after they refused to believe my waters had broke over the phone after checking me and knowing I was in labor just bc “it happened quick” waited in the waiting room for 10 hours and advised to go home bc no beds available. Ended up having baby on my own bed and called the Ambulance.

i had my daughter at bri i’ve had no complaints from there

I heard too many horror stories about BRI too. I opted for Leeds for my first and again for this pregnancy. X

Had my first baby at BRI... had my second at Calderdale. Couldn't pay me to have a baby at BRI after my first 😮‍💨

Yes. I had my first at BRI and decided to have my 2nd Airedale. It was such a better experience. The postnatal ward at BRI was just depressing, with no care

I had my little boy at BRI, I don't think I'll go back if I have another. Waters broke, I got sent home because I wasn't dilated. Went back the next morning to be induced, ended up with sepsis.

Glad to know I’m not the only one girls! My reasoning was my sister in law had a baby at BRI last august and they accidentally doubled her induction medication because they didn’t look at her chart which led to an awful emergency c-section with baby nearly not making it! And the aftercare was shocking… discharged the same day!

@Shelby Rebecca Tolhurst that is shocking! I hope they’re both ok! X

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I'm birthing at CRH. Haven't had any negative experience with BRI - they actually seem quite good with the new renovations and changes - but heard stories from before and I was registered at CRH first anyway so sticking to it.

@Reema CRH was amazing for me! I had an elective section after having a horrible emergency at BRI in 2021. The care throughout my entire stay at CRH was fantastic the midwives were so caring.. my little boy ended up being admitted to SCBU right after delivery and they arranged for me to go into a private room as baby wasn't with me when I went back up to the ward which did wonders for my mental health not having to be with other babies. They constantly checked on me throughout my stay and had no issue ringing SCBU for updates on my son whenever I asked until I was able to visit him myself. Honestly have nothing negative to say about the staff and the hospital 😊 xx

@Leigh Nicole Oooh that's good to know about CRH! I'm sorry you had such a shitty experience at BRI though.

I had my baby at BRI and the birth centre staff and then the transitional care unit staff were amazing. Can’t fault them. I had heard stories about BRI but decided to have my own experience.. I also heard stories about LGI and Airedale (bad and good). A bad experience can happen anywhere unfortunately, but a good experience can also happen anywhere x

I HATE Bri, they almost killed 3rd my baby But I was supposed to have my 2nd at LGI, I was WAAAY overdue (he was due October and wasnt born until mid November) and they had me waiting on induction ward for over a week. One evening I went to midwife and told her I was having him. She didnt believe me as I had no physical signs of labour and told me Id be waiting another week before I had him. I rung BRI and they told me to transfer. Ward staff at LGI told me I couldnt transfer that late as it wasnt safe but also refused to believe me I was having him. Bradford staff told them over the phone to transfer me to them. Leeds made me wait for a psychiatrist before letting me transfer. They literally made out I was being insane. Once I got to Bradford I went into labour. My full labour was 23 minutes. If Id have stayed at LGI Id have had him in a room with 5 other women and their partners.

Also my 3rd baby was born in August so it was very recent. They completely ignored a blood test result from May, and left her for 12 hours after birth (in which I kept telling them she was unresponsive and not feeding - they kept blaming it on me having pethadine saying it makes the baby sleepy even though I didnt have pethadine!) instead of sending her straight to NICU which led to my baby being hours at best from death, then minutes after I was told my baby was dying put me in a room on the normal ward with other women and their babies. Thankfully the NICU staff were amazing and my daughter is now fine, just very tiny. Then to top it off week later their neglect killed my nephew. Im genuinely traumatised by what happened, theyve offered no support for me or my husband weve just been left to deal with the trauma. I cant even speak about what happened because its distressing.

HORRIBLE. Do not have your baby there 😭😭😭😭

I would definitely advise against BRI it’s absolutely terrible there I had my first baby at LGI and it was okay nothing to complain about however I had my 3rd at Airedale and I highly recommend

I had my first at bri and I had a actual lovely birth I will be going there again this time too

I've heard stories about calderdale not being good either, My friend was with calderdale she went in for reduced movements they didn't even check baby, she was in constantly with them, baby then had reduced growth they didn't do anything, her induction was a week long and ended in an emergency C section! I birthed at BRI, the care during pregnancy was amazing, nothing was ever too much, i was really scared something bad would happen so any reduced movements i was there but they always put baby on monitor and listened to me, i thought my mucus plug had gone at 28 weeks, they took me straight in to be checked and put me on monitor but luckily everything was fine, towards the end i had a lot of reduced movements and was already having growth scans anyway but they gave me extra to make sure baby was growing properly because of this they found out that baby had dropped in weight from my scan 2 weeks prior and scheduled an induction for next day, The induction however wasn't the best, 1/2

2/2 During induction i was left in a room constantly no midwife's or nurses ever really came in apart from to do the 12 hourly checked even when i was a mess which to be fair wasn't too bad as i had my mum and partner there, they said i was ready for labour ward on the thursday i didnt get given a. bed on labour ward until 1am sunday, they kept telling me times id be down there by over the 3 days i was waiting but we never went down, couldn't eat couldn't drink due to how worked up i was, we did get a really lovely midwife when i first got there tho who i loved and another one on the saturday too who was amazing, i was really upset when moved to a shared room with just a curtain as it was so loud and bright and i hadn't slept in 3 days or been eating and i was feeling so unwell, my mum spoke to midwife and they put me in a private room again, id told them i didnt feel well for the whole of friday and then saturday woke up with an temp turned out i had covid!!

apparently i need another one 🤣🤣 Anyway it turned out i had covid but they thought i had sepsis too straight away they started me with antibiotics and a liquids drip and i felt better within half an hour, my midwife that day was so lovely making sure i was okay and had everything i needed and i was out on labour ward that night as they wanted to get me down asap to not have any risks to baby or not risk me getting too poorly and weak. Once i was in labour the hospital was amazing, had a midwife with me constantly, babies heart rate kept dropping and they where there to try and bring it back up instantly, they kept me calm, talked me through everything, didn't force me into anything i didn't want to do but explained when things where needed. I had got to 10cm but babies heart rate had dropped, senior midwife was demanding i had a section but my midwife advocated for me and let me try push, they gave me 6 pushes until i was gonna have to go down, i got him out in 5 thanks to midwife!

I think all hospitals have good and bad things, the problem with BRI is that they're highly understaffed! It isn't the actual hospital it's the staffing that's the problem, their level of care during labour is phenomenal, my care after was amazing too, my midwife stayed on shift to look after us and make sure we got discharged same day as she knew i'd need the help during the night from family due to being really unwell with covid, she helped me go for a wee helped me get dressed she was helping me latch baby when he wouldn't latch, she sat with me while my mum and partner nipped outside for 10 mins, she put my big maternity nappy on and off multiple times cos i was so weak and numb due to epidural taking a while to wear off, i'd go there again 100% and i'd love to have that midwife again too. Some people have worse experiences than others but i do think it's down to the staffing problem and hopefully this will be sorted at some point!

@Abby glad you had a good experience. It's good you got to go home same day. In my experience it is the postnatal ward that is the worst of all the care at BRI. I also couldn't fault the midwife I had for my little girl's delivery x

@Katie i can't really comment on the post natal ward they kept me on labour ward due to having covid and the postnatal ward being a shared ward they didn't want me to spread it to any other mums or babies x

@Abby oh yeh I get that. Just reinforcing that the midwives on labour ward were great and it's not them that I think most take issue with 😊

@Katie yeh 100%, i do think the main problem is that they're so low staffed, they said to me the problem isn't the space on the wards it's the fact they don't have enough midwife's to look after everybody so u go into be induced and you're ready for waters broken and stuff and they don't have a midwife to look after u and then same if you go in in labour sometimes there's not the staff. It's sad really because it could be amazing with the facilities and stuff they have just the lack of staff brings it down xx

@Abby yeh sort of. No excuse for attitude and downright rudeness that I experienced. However, it just takes 1 bad midwife and it ruins your experience doesn't it?

@Katie oh yeh 100% when i was on induction ward midwife's changed every 8 hours, the first night there my midwife was lovely but the one during day not so much she just made me feel a bit awkward and then i think my third day i had one that was a bit rude but i try and forget about that because the other few midwife's i had really where so lovely x