Antenatal appointment at st Thomas 13th September 2010

The garden room at St Thomas . 

Today we are of to st Thomas again but today its not for scans its a special antenatal class. its with other parents having a baby with heart problems at st Thomas hospital. it felt better to know we wasn't the only ones going through this. the midwife taking the class was the lady i saw here the other day. she gave us lots of paper work and went over what i had just learned at my normal antenatal class, like pain relief and giving birth. she then went over breast feeding and what we should do as baby wont be able to latch on. we have to store my milk in the freezer and then they will give baby it into his feeding tube. i learned a bit in this lesson. we then got a tour of the hospital were we will be. we see the birth center were ill be and the room. then they took us to a baby ward if babies ill. it was emotional because there was all these incubators. but it was good to see because baby will only be down the corridor from me. at the class there was another couple that wont be induced as they also live in lee. But there baby has a different problem there baby only has half a working heart. we took lots of paperwork and dvds away to have a look at. billy really liked the garden room for pregnant women . i think he will be getting me in there lol , you can see across London. we got told tho we can only have billy and 1 more person in the room when i give birth.

Today was the antenatal class at St Thomas, i liked going to this as we was shown around the birthing suite and we met other family's that was going to be in the same situation as me . They all felt the same worry and feeling of no control. In the end i didn't get to use the birthing suite as i was taken in for a planned c section as my son was breech. Also my son wasn't in the st Thomas hospital he was taken straight across to the Evelina.