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Dublin
2000
The Coombe Women's Hospital.
Deplorable.
Staff attitudes from the 50s. This is the country that pioneered the medically managed model of birthcare, and they've not changed a lot since. Prenatal care is better and more personable for dairy cattle and don't even ask about postnatal care.
The only breastfeeding mothers I saw for the 5 day duration of my stay were foreign, like me. The hospital provided breastfeeding classes which were utterly laughable, and otherwise treated us like the lowest, most loathsome, stupid, and aggravating people in the ward. How *dare* we breastfeed and room in with our infants?
If you want birth-trauma, or a cesarean, you're in the right place. If you want a natural birth with personal attention, forget it.
I was referred to The Coombe as being the least of the available evils. If this was the best, I'd hate to see the worst. I was warned off from National Women's completely.
I'd have an unassisted homebirth before I set foot in an Irish hospital again.
I'd rather go back home to Texas than do that, of course, but the question states "If you were to have another child in this country".
Move to another country. I hear the Scandinavian countries as well as Australasia are good for birthcare.
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Yep. That about sums it up. I have only one child for this very reason.
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Help others moving to Ireland by answering a set of questions about health insurance, public healthcare in Ireland, prescription medicine, quality of medical care and emergency services.
Read recent baby reports submitted for Letterkenny and Ballinsloe.
If you're an expat parent who had a baby abroad, write a report about your childbirth experiences to help other expecting expat parents.
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