Private Hospital with Private Obstetrician

I am going private with this pregnancy. Luckily for me i am with westfund and on the second highest level of cover which means i pay nothing.... not only that, my obstetrician has deals with westfund which is an added bonus!
I love the private room.... no shared bathrooms or anything....and the stuff thats called jelly....really is jelly, not moosh!
Thanks for sharing

This is great info Kell! I went private 2nd time around as the hosp here pays your excess as they make more money out of it. I was in the same hospital & same rooms as with my first (which was public). The only dif was I could choose my doc (I was having a c-section anyway), got a paper everyday, free tv and a better menu! We go private all the time for everything now as it benefits our hosp as well as us.

Teshia xxoo

great advice hun. i didnt use my private hospital as they use the public one for high risk births anyway lol and my public has birthing suites so no shared rooms for me!

Great info there for new mums to look into... well done...

take care
love cazza

if you can afford it I would totally recommend a private hospital.... I would not recommend the hospital I went to or the doctor I had but would still recommend private for sure. 

And yes here in Australia you do need to call and book your obstetrician the minute you find out you're pregnant!

Great advice!

It's interesting to read about how other countries go as far as obstetricians and hospitals.

Here in the U.S., O.B. are very accessible, as do a lot of specialists and more often than not, delivery is done in a private room - I guess unless someone doesn't have insurance.

I've been pretty luck that I have had a private room for both my pregnancies. The last one even had a great dining option. I had a menu of great gourmet food and I could choose what I wanted to eat! Except right before and after my c-section of course.

I was pretty lucky I think, because our hospital is a major public with a new maternity wing, with all the bells and whistles - situated right next to the private hospital. We had single and double rooms, I was there for a week, and I only had to share my room for two nights.  I got my meals brought to me as Jaydee was on a billi bed, and I raided all the cookies and sandwhiches from the lunchroom for midnight snacks when I had visitors.  I have to say we were thoroughly spoiled by the nurses during our stay  - they were all lovely (except the mean one on the maternity ward that was temping the night I asked to go up to the birthing unit to have the baby).

They also had an excellent specialist clinic for day monitoring, and I was cared for there a few times when I was pregnant, instead of having to be admitted to hospital.  I went to the hospital fortnightly and then weekly, during the pregnancy and mainly saw the same midwives, and Doctors - even the specialists.

After the birth, when I had to have surgery, they paged one of the Doctors from the private hospital next door anyway, for surgery, and anyone from the private hospital would have had to come over to ours for surgery - so it was the best of both worlds.  We also had to go to the private hospital pathology to get tests done on bubs when he was about a week old - it was all free. 

t was no accident though, I moved so that I would be within walking distance of the hospital I wanted to be at - so yes, it certainly does pay to do your homework - whether the hospital is public or private.

Thanks deb. i will take that into account.

Hi
I had a private obstetrician and a private hospital and with all the complications we had I am glad we did. 
Megan and Rowan were both born in public hospitals with public everything
The best thing with having a private obstetrician is he listened to me and took into account how i felt. 
The public doctors did not take into account my feelings needs or wants. They told me what i had to do and no discussion entered into it.  My birth plan was ignored and everything
My birth plan with Jalan was "hpw much pain relief can i legally have?
I would be happy to have a private obstetrician in a public hospital even
If you can afford it have a private obstetrician makes life a lot easier and a smoother pregnancy and birth
He knows exactly what you want. And works with you
Luv Deb