Lister Hospital Maternity Unit

Can't fault this mat unit. Lovely and supportive midwifes. Appointment times can be long but when it came to giving birth midwifes were great

It has been nearly 5 months since I have had a c section at Lister and I wasn't going to post this review, simply because I am a kind of a person who moves on but I cannot stop thinking about this horrible experience there & I decided that 5 mins of my time writing this is worth it - I hope it warns other mothers to be. I am 37 and this was my first and probably the last pregnancy. I originally wanted to give birth at Cambridge but the Covid situation has put the stops to it and I have had to opt for Lister. First of all I was booked to come in for 7 am and have an early c section while my husband suppose to be waiting in the car. When I got there I was told that they have made a mistake and I will have to wait my turn but 'it may or may not happen today'.. Great. So my husband couldn't be there with me, had to wait In the car, because we may or may not have a baby on the day - it literally made me feel like was there to pick up a parcel! I was waiting all day with no food and no updates until 3pm when they finally came to see me and told me that I will be having a baby in the next 30 mins. The whole c section procedure was a standard, by the book, procedure. No fuss. My husband then had to leave and I was put on the ward and left there. Nobody asked me how I was, if I needed anything etc. I wasn't able to move my legs and I was in pain. I didn't sleep all night because my baby was not settling so I had to hold her all night. I was pressing the buzzer 7 times at some points of the night to ask for help but nobody came, although I have heard laughs and chatting, I still couldn't move my legs and I didn't want to shout to wake other mums and babies up. The night passed with tears in my eyes, I was so tired and emotional. I got cleaned and help by a lady at 7 am in the morning and then told that I will be descharged in the afternoon. I still couldn't move my legs and my baby was crying all the time, I have heard nurses saying one to another "can you help her somehow'? the response was "I am not good with babies". Absolutely horrible. When the time came to leave and my husband was waiting for me downstairs I was told that the time of the birth of my daughter was put incorrectly on the paperwork and they are unable to change it. I have had to have about 30 mins unpleasant conversation to get the timing changed. Sadly, what suppose to be the most beautiful day of my life, was a nightmare. Every time some one asks me about that day I have tears in my eyes, all for the wrong reasons. Therefore I just feel that I need to put this review on here.

Amazing maternity unit. All the ladies and guys have been wonderful and so kind. Amazing team

My baby was delivered here with no fuss. There is affordable street parking but the indoor car park is bloody expensive. Staff are quite friendly and supportive

I had a blood test done because my partner is pregnant. The appointment was fine but the blood test was lost. In the space of a month and a half our family have had four blood tests in total and only one of them was successful (2 lost samples, 1 sample was left too long before being tested, 1 success). Something needs to be done about this incompetence!!