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Victoria Hospital 2016-07-02 Person 3 5 0

I have to say the treatment I received was of a high standard and I know the ward is a very busy place but it is impossible to get any kind of rest at all. I had a fairly traumatic birth as it ended up in theatre, which again I totally understand can happen and am grateful for the care I got but after the experience of that and then no sleep at all due to the busy nature of the ward it makes the start of motherhood not great at all. All throughout pregnancy you are advised to keep baby and yourself as calm as possible but this is virtually impossible when there is something going on 24 hours a day. I understand the ward has to be like this but I would have though when the new women and children's part of the hospital was built some thought into what mothers have to go through and there immediate aftercare would have been taken into consideration. 4 people on a ward with only curtains to separate them is not good enough in my opinion as the noise level is too high. Surely some other kind of partitions could have been thought about to ease the noise level. I understand its a busy place but more thought should be taken into account depending on how the birth has gone. The experience of being on ward D would be put me off having another baby.