Most MSE place for your waters to break!

bargainbird

Surely its very MSE to save on Taxi's etc and have a homebirth

jellyhead

depends if you need to replace your carpet i suppose

frugallass

AnnieM wrote: »

PMSL! :rotfl:You'd deserve Barnstormer Cheesefor life for that!

it's a risk seriously worth considering - I just love that cheese :cool:

emay

foreversomeday wrote: »

That is ridiculous, I have never heard of the NHS charging anyone for an ambulance call out, especially if they genuinely believed there was a need for one!

Does anyone follow Tom Reynolds' blog? I think it's really interesting.

http://randomreality.blogware.com/

Not labour related, but a manager where I work was threatened with a bill for an ambulance call out (he fell down stairs and daughter thought he'd broke his leg so rang one), but it wasn't £300 (less than £100 I think).

Ms_Piggy_2

jellyhead wrote: »

depends if you need to replace your carpet i suppose

That was my reason for choosing a home birth - I wanted a new carpet! As it is, it's not that messy anyway.

Krystaltips

Think you could claim for accidental damage if your waters go on your lounge carpet?

jellymid

When pregnant with my second daughter, my waters went whilst I was getting the washing in. I felt a trickle, but carried on, then whoosh!

I was wearing my wellies,....filled me boots!:D

Laugh? Had to enlist 4 yo and husband to get them off, and we were all:rotfl:

I had to buy a new pair afterwards, though, so not very mse!

jellyhead

:rotfl:

I was shocked at the amount of water when I had my second baby. They used the hook, and then gave me a few hours to have a walk and see if I could manage to go into labour without drugs. They said 2 hours but I said 4 I tried walking, but had to stay in my room in the end because the waters just kept gushing :eek: A brisk walk around the gardens works for most mums apparently, but I just couldn't stop gushing water every time I ventured onto the corridor

Strapped

inkie wrote: »

As a midwife I can say that that really isn't on. They should have seen and examined this lady regardless of where she was booked. We often get women presenting who, for whatever reason are not 'booked' at all - do we send them away? No.

I agree. The hospital I took my colleague to was not the one she was booked at, but it was the closest one to work and as baby was early, it was where we headed.

Having said that, the hospital where I had baby #1 often shut and made mothers travel onto the next nearest one :rolleyes:

anguk

I'd have no qualms about ringing an ambulance if I went into labour and had no transport, I'd worry about a bill later! With my 1st baby I was in hospital (1 week late & high blood pressure) and had a 2 hour labour and 16 minute delivery.

With my 2nd I was at home and noticed that for an hour I'd had very mild period-type cramps every 10 minutes, I rang the midwife and she told me to go to hospital because I was 2 weeks late & they wanted to monitor me. Got to hospital, pains had stopped & I was only 2cm dilated. 30 minutes later completely out of the blue I had a massive pain and wanted to push, my OH ran to get the midwife and in the minute that it took them to get back the babies head was right down. My waters had broken and the poor little thing had just shot down like a high-powered water pistol, 2 more pushes and she was out, the poor midwife only managed to get one glove on!

The midwife wrote on the front of my notes "rapid delivery" and said if I ever got pregnant again I was to ring the hospital the moment I started labour. I feel so sorry for women who have long drawn-out difficult deliveries, I think I've been very lucky with 16 minutes for my first & 3 minutes for my second, it took longer to stitch me up afterwards! :rotfl: