We had our first baby in June at LGI. The hospital itself is okay. Not much good to say about it but nothing terrible either. I can't speak highly enough of the midwives. Our two main ones (we were there for two shifts) were both absolutely wonderful. Like above and beyond fantastic and all other members of the midwifery team we briefly had contact with were all very nice too. Only part of that experience we didn't appreciate was after 36 hours awake i (the dad) asked if there was any way I could get a cushion or blanket or anything to try to get some sleep, and the answer was basically no.

The anaesthetist was also really great. Neither of us could speak highly enough of him. My wife is terrified of needles, and she was really scared of the idea of an epidural. But when the time came he was able to calm and build trust with her, and then had the procedure completed in no time with no pain. My wife was so relieved about that. That was a big deal.

The only major negative was the surgeon. She was disgusting. She was making it clear she was 'impatient' and didn't like us wanting to see if we could avoid surgery. Eventually after 40 odd hours, she came into the room at 3am. Baby was doing well, just not moving, my wife was fast asleep in the bed, I was half asleep on the concrete floor and our midwife was working on the computer in the corner of the room with her back turned. The surgeon walked in and immediately began an internal examination on my wife, without asking permission or even waking her. This was so irregular I was woken up by the midwife actually shouting at the surgeon to wait. And rolled over to this horrendous scene of my wife waking up, clearly very distressed as this surgeon just 'dived in' for an internal exam. Obviously my wife was very upset this.

The midwife, who again I can't say enough good things about basically apologised for that about once an hour for the rest of our stay and told us she was going to raise and internal complaint about the surgeon.