Comments on: At the Barkantine Birth Centre

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:08:24 +0000

Only just stumbled across this article. Lovely, lovely photos. Thank you 🙂

By: Aziza

Aziza — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 19:39:25 +0000

Hi
Being a service user and a maternity services employee with this very trust I am very happy to have stumbled across your article!
I had my first in the old RLH, second at home, 3rd at the birth centre and 4th again at the old RLH.
I work on the new maternity ward and am always asking mums to feedback on their experience here. It’s hard to make changes to any service if the service users do not express how their journey went.
I loved my home birth experience, and have encouraged many of my friends and family to consider this as an option. Hardly any mess, and you’re relaxing with your loved ones soon after the birth!
Lovely pictures and equally lovely article, thank you

Aziza begum, breast feeding support worker

By: Henna

Henna — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:23:56 +0000

Hi Rosie,

Thanks for writing this – am deciding between Royal London and Barkantine while being hooked on One Born Every Minute, not a good combination!! But this has really helped, definitely worth a tour 🙂

By: Anji Henry

Anji Henry — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:29:50 +0000

Such amazing midwives – truly worth their weight in gold! Great article.

By: Alan Gilbey

Alan Gilbey — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:13:50 +0000

Jeannette, the old London Hospital was an under-funded, past it’s well by date, sliding into history slum, and you would have been appalled. When staff nursing were replaced with agency nurses the ties and loyalties that bind places and patients began to break. No one wanted to work there and the Elephant Man would have found it’s mouldering wards oppressive.

The newly built Royal London is a bit of a monster too – fifteen floors high, with corridors full of people wandering around wondering why the money ran out before they did the signage. But is’s clean and cheerful and though me and my mother were seven hours in A&E last week, every time we did see someone ( and we saw many someones) they were kind and considerate.

Now she’s in a ward, fourteen floors up with a view of her whole life and, though you do get the feeling staffing levels are not what they should be, the kindness continues. When you’ve got nowhere else to go the things that do go right count for a lot.. but don’t get me started on social services!

By: Ellen

Ellen — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:32:47 +0000

Great info and beautiful pictures. Thank you……

By: andrea

andrea — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:51:01 +0000

Nice. I love the excitement on Akif’s face, and the way his mother is smiling at him.

By: Lynn Hardaker

Lynn Hardaker — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:36:24 +0000

Beautiful story and pictures.
Thanks.

By: Jeannette

Jeannette — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:52:57 +0000

death, now birth. little tennessee and his sweet-looking parents! welcome to the world! big brother akif’s bright eyes!!!
in what way were the nursing staff unpleasant, do you think, and why was the old hospital so filthy? that wasn’t so long ago and now it’s all hygienic? how did that happen.
thanks again for these wonderful glimpses of life.