[RainbowGoddess]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle1352126.ece

Hi guys, having been at work in Morrisons all day, couldn't help but see the The Sun front page with the above story featured.

What do you guys think about this? I sympathise with her experience but can't help wondering that if the NHS wasn't good enough for her birth why didn't she also get private postnatal care? Also, as she claims to be standing up for all normal mums, how many normal mums would have a birth at a private hospital?

[Cb]

I think she had an awful experience. Whether she had paid for postnatal care or not she should have had it. Her experience just highlights the inadequacy of the service in parts of the country. No new mum should be left alone for 6 days without a visit!! As she said herself - no visit when she was just a plain mum but when she used her real name midwives (two) were on her doorstep pretty quickly.

People choose to pay and it is their choice but can you blame them when they know what kind of a "service" they are going to get. I am sure that in the future we will see more private birthing centres. Women want to be treated better and the NHS doesn't seemed to have taken that on board yet even with the Maternity Matters report. Women want choice and some hospitals appear to struggle with this.

[RainbowGoddess]

I agree she had an awful experience, I didn't mean to say that she didn't deserve postnatal care, of course she did. It is truly awful that two midwives turned up as soon as her real name was used but I wonder if they really did turn up just because they recognised her a celeb or if that is the name she used at the hospital she went to and they had no record of an Angela Quinn giving birth? Stil, record or not, the midwives ought to at least have responded to her first call.

What I meant is, I wondered why didn't she hire an independant midwife but of course it was her choice to only have the birth privately and to want to be treated like everyone else for postnatal care only.

[Cb]

She has always tried to be down to earth and show that she is just an ordinary mum and I guess she told her story to highlight the gaps in the service. The NHS is slated so much and she was trying to show it in a positive light which kind of backfired. As she said in her next pregnancy she will be going private!! Shame really as not all services are like this and there are some really good midwives out there that treat all their mums like celebs!!

[RainbowGoddess]

I think it is more to do with The Sun trying to sensationalize things. I'm very tired so I'm not articulating well here, I didn't mean to sound so down on Myleene, it just annoyed me that The Sun are trying to make it seem that NHS midwives don't care about normal mums but they show them celeb and they'll come running, I'm sure it wasn't as clear cut as all that.

[Cb]

I know you are not hun! Not trying to put you down!! It is annoying how papers sensationalise things and I'm sure there is more to the story than what has been reported!! Perhaps they had no record of her! Who knows eh!!

[RainbowGoddess]

Well, even without a record surely there is an obligation to call on someone who claims to have a new baby. We will never know the whole story but I suspect it may have complicated the situation by her going to a celeb hospital under her own name and then trying to access care under a pseudonym, not that that is an excuse in any way.

[ukcyberchick]

Hummm. I have little sympathy for her in the fact that she selected private care for the actual birth then expects the NHS to pick up the slack for the after birth care. Theres been a lot in the papers recently about the NHS saying they wont pay for treatment when someone has paid private to get a speedier initial treatment and to be honest, i think this is the way it should be.

I suspect that there may have been some confusion in the fact that she used a false name. the nhs would have no record that Myleene Klass had had a baby and was in need of post natal care.

[RainbowGoddess]

Whatever she chose, there was still a baby to consider. I took exception to the implication that this must happen all the time to normal (I'm not saying she's not normal but YKWIM) mothers who have no choice but to rely on the NHS when I suspect it was just a confusion because of the private birth and false name when 'normal' mothers wouldn't have had a private birth.

[tracyb]

To me, it may have been that the private sector didn't transfer/communicate her details correctly, I've seen this happen in practice, we often fnd that private Obs and Gynae patients do not have records shipped across and of course th NHS frequently gets blamed.