RECENTLY I gave birth to a healthy little boy at Wyre Forest Birth Centre (Kidderminster Maternity Unit) after what was a perfect pregnancy and almost perfect labour.
After six hours of labour things started to go seriously wrong and I had to be rushed down to theatre for an emergency caesarean.
From the second my husband and I walked into the maternity unit on the morning of August 10 up until the time the three of us left on the morning of August 16, we all received top class care and attention from maternity and theatre staff alike.
How many people out there realise that a brand new specialist baby unit has been built at our own hospital but never opened because the Government feel there are not enough babies born there.
Maybe if more people knew about the unit and realised that it is the midwives and healthcare workers, not the GPs, who run it and do all the hard work, they might think twice about travelling 17 miles-plus to an old and out-dated hospital like Ronkswood, or Wordsley, who won't allow you to stay more than 24 hours.
Even if it is too late to save the hospital itself, let us do something to support the maternity unit. If anything we need to fight to get the specialist baby unit opened.
ADRIENNE WILSON
Severnside Mill
Bewdley
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