Should I be scared of the NHS??

[adam&chryss]

Do you trust the way our media portrays The Philippines?
All poor and dirty and arranged marriages and such?
Its not all like that is it.
Well the NHS is the same.
I`ve never had a bad experience and neither has anyone in my family.
They all work hard just so they can be portrayed as useless which is terrible.
When was was in Phil with Chryss we went to 2 hospitals for scans and I cant say I found them clean at all, in fact I was releived that she was here to give birth.
The only trouble we had was arranging the scans here as she was 29 wks pregnant when she arrived and didnt have much information from Phil.
The people that work for the NHS at the frontline deserve lots of credit and not the critiscm that come their way.
Saving money by not giving a CS to someone not a british citizen? Who made that up?
Just relax, take it easy and all will be well

[Kju&2]

Saving money by not giving a CS to someone not a british citizen? Who made that up?
Just relax, take it easy and all will be well

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the advice. I guess as I've never been hospitalized here before (but I have when I was in the Philippines) - I was more scared of the unknown and unfamiliar rather than being scared because of things I've heard. As for your above comment - again it was just my passing comment / thought. I obviously haven't got any proof to prove that they've done that to my sis in law to save money. I just know for a fact that in private hospitals all around the world - you tend to pay more for a cs compared to normal delivery because of the tools, doctor and operating room, etc - hence I assumed that that's why they insisted on my sister in law delivering by normal even if the baby won't come out and the fact that my sis in law had been asking them for ages for her to undergo a c-section which in the end they did anyway. I think I am more dismayed at the thought of being sent home after my water broke like what happened to my sister in law, specially giving birth for the first time when I don't know what to expect. The last thing I'd wanna do when that happens is to go home and come back to the hospital. I just hope that doesn't happen to me

[nigel]

Hey Ekks! You got a name for your baby yet? Are you going to bring it up in Britain?

[Kju&2]

Hey Ekks! You got a name for your baby yet? Are you going to bring it up in Britain?

Hi Nigel. My boyfriend and I have already got some ideas but we won't know the sex of the baby until a few more months so it's still open to debate. My boyfriend and I have agreed a few years ago that if the baby was a girl - I would name her but if it was a boy - then he'd name him but I think I've changed my mind about that set-up now. LOL We'll have to have an equal contribution now methinks.

For the meantime we will raise our child here. But as soon as my boyfriend finishes his degree at Uni we will be looking into moving to either New Zealand or Australia so we're closer to the Philippines and the weather a bit more tolerable.

[Arthur Little]

Please DON'T be afraid of giving birth in an NHS maternity unit, Ekks. I can assure you that the introduction of the British National Health Service over 60 years ago is, without a shadow of doubt, the BEST singular achievement by any of our Governments here ... either before, or since ... and it is [rightly so] envied worldwide!

It's worth noting too, that ... among the members who greeted you on your introductory thread, is a retired medical specialist. And another's wife is a doctor as well; also, I shouldn't be surprised if there are possibly one-time nurses and - (maybe) even - midwives that make up our number. So you're in "safe hands", so to speak!!