Getting to hospital

We live in Fulham, London and don’t have a car. Wondering about if I go into labour how to get to the hospital 😆 Also don’t have any friends and family who live nearby who’s car we could borrow. How do we get baby back home? Random things to think about 🤔

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We live in central London and don’t have a car so plan to just Uber it, but bring a car seat with us for the journey home. Worth having a few apps on hand in case one takes too long

We lived in London when we had my first - we took an Uber to the hospital and took a taxi home. We just bought an infant car seat that could be seat belted into the car without needing isofix (was quite useful to have as we also used it a few times for other infrequent uber journeys we made during her first year). We had friends in London who had their daughter at a similar time who used a zip car to go into hospital and back x

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