Yeah some people are happy with it totally - I am just very scared of hospitals now. When I went into Milton Keynes after having my second m/c they put my on a male medical ward - not Gynea - and the nurse was so nasty to me and wouldnt even get me another blanket. I was in a drafty side room and I was so cold and didn't have a dressing gown due to being rushed in. Baring in mind I was in agony and it hurt like hell to walk - I had to wak to the other end of the ward to get MYSELF a blanket - wearing just a cotton surgical gown as a nightie in front of loads of older men. The doctor a couple of days later then proceded to tell me, with no explanation and just matter-of-fact like, that I would probably never have children. It shattered my world.
My Partner's Grandad also died of MRSA in MK hospital - so it has bad vibes for his family too.
When I worked as a domestic cleaner at the hospital for a few months ( this was as long as I could handle it) cleanliness was appaling on most wards. Urine and dried blood left on the floor for a week, windows never cleaned/didn't shut properly. Human waste of all kinds left in the toilets and showers which the nurses refused to clear up (even though it was their job to). I was expected to do all of this ina measly 4 hours as well as do 2 tea runs, clear up dinner, clean the whole ward top to bottom, behind everything, and the pay was awful. No wonder it's never cleaned properly - they don't pay the staff or get enough staff in to do it.
It really depends on the setting you want. If you want clinical and white with big side rooms (6 bed rooms) then go there, if you want homely with small side rooms (4 bed rooms max) - then go to Bedford. As the mother and being in MK we have the choice of MK, Northampton (which I also think is better than MK), or Bedford. Or even Stoke Mandeville (a childrens specilist hospital) if you wanted!
It's just my personal feeling about the place really that stop me going there. Labour ward isnt as bad as the rest of the hospital, it's just not my first choice. I wouldn't say don't go there though. You have never had a bad experience of them and most peeople haven't. At the end of the day, if it was so awful all of the time shouldn't they of shut it down by now?
Most midwives in MK hosp are nice, just not all of them. But then I guess that's just the staff they picked, not the hospital. Quite often they are bank midwives but that's a UK issue with midwives and not just MK.
I looked around with my midwife again when I was about 8 weeks PG I think. Are you registered at Middleton/MK Village surgery?
If you want to go there, then please go there - the above is just why I personally will not go there among other things.
