Look inside The Lindo Wing - Private maternity care in London

[@vegasgirl3538]

Honestly, aside from the food it doesn't look all that luxurious.

[@donna6368]

It seems very cold and industrial looking. Ours was beautiful wood flooring, soft lighting, artwork, comfortable sofa, chair and rocking chairs along with marvelous food. Not to mention fabulous nurses.

[@lindaswoveland8515]

Donna G it does look rather cold and uninviting. But the afternoon tea looked absolutely delicious.

[@donna6368]

Linda Swoveland Most definitely!!!😍

[@MadamCharChar]

I am American too...we are spoiled with the birthing suites because the hospitals compete for service. Always willing to provide that extra service to get bodies in the beds.

[@MadamCharChar]

@@lindaswoveland8515 you can get afternoon tea anywhere in London and it won't cost $5k a day lol

[@samanthawebber9748]

Doesnt look that different from the nhs hospital i gave birth in

[@hollywinslett7097]

Samantha Webber right? It’s cold and dull looking

[@annalejandro1]

Samantha Webber I don’t get it. Admittedly I’m just a rube having come from English and Irish peers, but other than the chef, the menu, the high tea if desired, the decor and the champagne, I don’t see a whit’s difference between the Lindo Wing labor/birthing room than that of any American hospital mother/child wing. A labor bed and chair, a window, a lounge chair or portable bed for other parent to sleep in should that be needed or asked for, and an en-suite bathroom. Good Lord, do English women in labor have to be chained to beds when contractions go to 2 minutes apart, be attended by a midwife while laboring mother is hooked up to 14 monitoring machines, then their OB pops in as the baby’s head cowns, catch it and hand to the midwife for weight height, Apgat scores and the eye goo, cut the cord or ask the other loving parent to do, deliver the placenta, say “First rate!” and leave? (Mine did that, congratulatory but no “first rate.) if you are NOT in the Lindo Wing do they put s diaper on yo hand escort you into s maternity ward with a bunch of aluminum cribs, give you a few minutes to bond and suckle, then band the baby and race it to the nursery to clean, diaper, dress, put the cap on baby, and swaddle it as mom is whisked away to a barracks style ward? Of course every mother in US hospitals has baby in a warm bed at her side unless she’s holding it, or unless the parents have had a few pictures and then at night if she wants the baby looked after in the nursery so she can sleep. Of course there’x no champagne of wind list; new parents don’t need to wake up with hangovers as well as screaming hungry babies, and about 1/4 are breast feeding and within at least 3 hours they’re going to be hungry, and introducing baby to alcohol in the first hours of its life is surely not the greatest health benefit. A gourmet meal? I asked my husband to get to a deli and get me half a chicken salad sandwich and a Coke. But ALL hospital food d except the inevi

[@annalejandro1]

Holly Winslett (typos) APGAR scale. All hospital food excerpt the ubiquitous Jello is un-identifiable. While Lido wing Mom is cutting her lamb shank with mint jelly, , forking out her escargot, enjoying her Urugula pomegranate-kale salad, her grilled beet and foie-gras sauté with white truffle oil in a reduction spumante foam of quail eggs served with Beluga caviar while the new mothers in the ward are served Marmite on organic multi-seed flat bread. (My cousin gave birth in Tokyo here they believe mother and baby must be looked after for a week in the hospital, after her 13 hour labor, was served a covered ceramic pot which when she removed revealed a soup of the heads of snake-head fish.) The Duchess Of Sussex follow the tradition oh her sister, sister-in-law, and deceased mother-in-“law should be a follower and not blaze her own feminist trail? Oh no, there will be two hours of yoga, deep breathing, and hypnosis before the screams, “Get me OUT of here, give me the epidural, and turn in the JUICE! Get this baby OUT of me NOW!” and as Harry screams, “What Meghan wants, Megan GETS!” which is Rolls Royce ambulance, a full police escort and a ride to the closest posh hospital where someone will report that due to life threatening emergencies, the baby was born via C Section, but The Duchess reveals to closes friends that like Jesus she was taken up to heaven for the birth, and God almighty decreed it’s name: Diana Doriamal Benedita Regina for whom the angels sang. This does not make the untitled baby the second most important ever born; oh no, it makes her MOTHER the second most important WOMAN ever born. Prince Harry will agree that she is the first Anglican convert Saint in world history, and that her public outings, handshakes, air kisses and hugs are not merely signs of supernatural love but actual bestowals of Divine Grace. This is the fore-ordained plan designed to raise this madonna above the stations of the Queen, that mean duke and duchess who did not roll the carpet out big or wide or long or red enough, and to put Princess Charlotte right back at the end of the line. Slight problem: what on EARTH will she do with her HANDS? Stick those other frozen eggs in ASAP!

[@bichonmomr]

if this is a $5K/ day room, i’d hate to see where regular people go.

[@ronakio]

It's not a hotel. It's about the calibre of doctors, nurses and the medical equipment.

[@brennamorene8978]

AND THE ROYAL WOMAN KATE AND DIANA GIVE BIRTH AT THIS HOSPITAL IT'S NOT ALL THAT AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE!!!!.

[@jokerswild4577]

Starting at $6 K a night? For WHAT exactly? Cute little deserts and some hot tea?

[@annmitchell4663]

It may be due to the expertise of the staff and the discretion ect..

[@linds9934]

Wow! Talk about tea time desserts!

[@lindaswoveland8515]

Kendra Yearsley I'd go there just for that. Yum!!!

[@binklebabe4725]

Cupcake eater, and now you have a new prince. Cheers! 😃

[@Bubblynoodlez]

Wow this just proved that the £5-8k or however much that is spent here is ridiculous. Just looks like the normal care you receive in the NHS just minus the afternoon tea and nursery. Sometimes just saying you've given birth at st Mary's is a status thing amongst middle class women. Speaking from experience a lot of these women are snobs.

[@melaniereynolds631]

How can you encourage a new mum to establish breastfeeding if their child/children are in a separate room from 9pm-7am!!!

[@twifan13]

Melanie Reynolds the nurses are available to look after the newborn if the mother would like, but if not, the baby stays overnight with the the mother. The babies are not required to stay in the nursery.

[@sharkisland5931]

Thats when the service is available that doesn't mean they're gonna be there for the full 10 hours 😂😂

[@kybelle457]

Breast feeding is a joke. Bottle all the way. I'm a maternity RN/Np of 34 years

[@littlemisssunshine874]

When I think of this ward all I remember is that nurse that killed herself after those Australian djs breeches security!

[@jane_eyre_at_heart8222]

You've got the wrong hospital! That was king Edward v11 hospital where they treated her for morning sickness, not the Lindo Wing.

[@binklebabe4725]

My room in the United States was much nicer, 22 years ago, and I was faaaar from wealthy.

[@cupcakeeater3937]

Binkle Babe In England we like everything traditional, we love that this hospital has the authenticity of tradition and it's what we like as a nation. We also know that the Royal Children were born in this hospital so what's fits for the duchess and future monarchy, fits for everyone else.

[@ronakio]

@@cupcakeeater3937 I'm not a Brit but I find Americans shallow and unintelligent. They only understand shiny and flashy and superficial things. Something traditional like this wouldn't make any sense to them. They love to call themselves the greatest but I don't think they know what the world thinks of them. In my opinion, America has a handful of intelligent people. 98% of them are just dumb.

[@claireh9086]

The food was so good to the point going home cooking would be a challenge for me, my god what a ridiculous thing to say. If you can afford that then lady there is no way you do your cooking at home! Pampered housewife I would say. I work within the nhs, most rooms do not look this cold and clinical, I may have missed it but the only colour I saw was cream. Most wards have colour to them, paintings etc so they purposely don’t look so sterile.

[@TheFakeyCakeMaker]

She knew it as well, look at the look she gives after she said it like oooops maybe I shouldn't have said that!

[@hollywinslett7097]

I have another comment, it actually looks like the county hospital and the downtown of the hood over here in the United States. Yuck!

[@darussianping61]

I didnt like the look of Lindo wing i had my birth at home and i loved it.

[@kybelle457]

You're an idiot. Lucky your kid made it. Smdh

[@SpaceCommand]

Looks exactly like a Public Maternity Ward. Really what are you getting for your money?? You're better off just to go have the Baby at a Public Hospital or shit it out on the grass at home (if you're into those Natural Home Birth things)