Maternity Unit - Whipps Cross Hospital

I gave birth in Jan 2020, and it was a beautiful experience. Midwifes, nurses, doctors, the ladies who brought me food...nearly everyone I've met was wonderful and caring. I was even lucky that I was by the window in the maternity recovery room, and I've seen an amazing sunrise with my baby in my arms. The hospital is just next to Epping Forest, so lots of green around.❤🤱

4 stars out of 5 because of one midwife that let's put it that way. She shouldn't be a midwife with such a personality and the way she treated me! Over all I was taken care by a lots of amazing midwifes, doctors, nurses and students. They all changed the way I remember my birth and how I felt after this bad experience with one of the midwife. We had a lots of complications. I was induced and in labour for 56h. All ends up with emergency c-section due to my kidneys failure and I got sepsis after all. We spend in the hospital almost a week. Big thank to you all of midwifes, doctors, nurses and students that give us so much support and help. You took care of us and you were able to help with all questions, concerns and breastfeeding. I am a first time mum and honestly this experience was great (expect this very rude midwife). I hope that next time I will see you all again.

I chose Whipps Cross for my maternity care and the care I received was fantastic. I saw the same community midwife throughout my pregnancy and she was fantastic. I was lucky that I didn’t need any extra medical care, only some additional testing to rule out gestational diabetes and one monitoring session right at the end and these were carried out professionally and reassured me that everything was fine. The care I received during birth was great, very professional with kind and supportive midwifes. I spend one night on the maternity ward to wait for baby to have her checks the following morning. I was seen promptly and discharged at lunch time. The follow up care I have received has been great so far too, again I have been lucky not to have any major concerns regarding recovery/baby’s development but I have been made aware of lots of support options should I need it. Highly recommended.

I had a great experience and was very well taken care of. Although my baby was meant to have turned in the delivery position after discovering her breach position in my late pregnancy, she did not actually turn. I went in for induction at 40w+12 and refused it, as did not want to interrupt the natural process. I asked for a sweep instead which I had previously refused. This is when the midwife figured out something was wrong - she was in a breach position before week 40 and the midwife thought she turned however this did not happen. My baby was the first one being scanned with a little hand scanner and they found her head crown in the upper side of the bump. I did not like the labour doctor's attitude trying to convince me to get induced, who was so negative in presenting the facts to me as if I was about to kill my baby. However Dr Gorry who took over was amazing. She performed ECV on me very carefully which was sadly unsuccessful. She then looked after us during the emergency c section, all this while explaining every step of each process and all the risks involved in an empathetic way. The surgery was a success of course and all the doctors were amazing explaining everything they were doing to me. Although being discharged took 3h as the evening/night had started their shift, overall the Whipps Cross maternity team was amazing at handling us and making sure we were safe before being discharged. Another let down was the night shift - midwife and student - who were unable to offer any breastfeeding advice sadly most probably due to lack of personal experience, both being very young. The student attended all my calls and I've seen the midwife only at the beginning and end of her shift, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Huge thanks to everyone who looked after us, from the ladies changing my baby and the bed sheets to the doctors and midwives present there for you any time!

I was so pleased with the services in whipps cross hospital. I gave birth there without any complain. All midwifes and staffs are very friendly, soft manner and experiences, they always be with me as my husband wasn't allow to join in the labour due to covid 19. The rest room is awesome, clean and modern. Massive Thank to you guys ♥️