Anyone gave birth at St Mary’s recently?

I was on the recovery ward in December after my section, and my partner had to leave at midnight and was only able to come back at 6am. However, I was a bit annoyed as the woman over from me kicked off so she was allowed to have her partner stay - which they decided to have full blown conversations at the top of their voices all night 🫠

No, partner wasn't allowed to stay and I gave birth in September.. the midwives weren't awful, but the health care assistants or whoever they are in green, were amazing. Also not sure if this is helpful or not but for what it's worth, I was able to stand and stuff a lot sooner this time with it being my second section and maybe knowing what to expect, I don't know if that helped but yeah 😊 x

I had my second born there in 2024 and first born in 2021. First time they were great. Second time beyond horrendous. I get a room on care plan but was on a ward night son came (both mine were c sections. First emergency second planned). I was in for about 3 weeks before second birth as was so poorly and two weeks after until I discharged myself because I wasn’t getting any better and the care was beyond horrendous. I had all these new pains nobody listened. My infection markers were 166 dangerously high and consultants didn’t know what was up so they shrugged their shoulders and did fuck all. Fobbed off a ct scan despite needing one and ultrasounds doing nothing. Threee diff midwives I called for, all left to get me meds while I was crying in agony and never came back. Took my night midwife to come off her break to realise nobody bothered to care for me. She was so wound up for me when she saw we were discharging ourselves as she had seen how bad my recovery was and only one who

I had my 2nd in Jan 2026 and partners can't stay overnight but can stay till midnight. But I know if your in a room usually partners can stay as my partner did in November 2023 when my 1st was on NICU and we were in a side room both were c sections 1 emergency one planned .

Hey lovely! My biggest bit of advice would be to advocate for yourself. Explain on admission that you’re incredibly anxious about being alone. Many midwives will help if they have rooms available and are able to turn a blind eye to your partner staying 💞 xx

Thank you everyone for your advice. I had a great experience this time round and the midwives were so helpful! I believe this is because I was on another recovery ward for planned sections so it was much more quiet!