This hospital has a lending library of all the best books to prepare for positive birth experience. Unfortunately, none of the staff I encountered seemed to have had any training in supporting my needs. Decisions were made without consulting me. I was not presented with any choices, or the risks or benefits of the cascade of interventions that I experienced. At 9.5cm, I was invited to be part of a scientific study to assess the effectiveness of an intervention. My partner refused, and they did it anyway. I can't talk about the next bit, except that it had the quality of a violent sexual assault, and left me in a dissociative state.
Afterwards, I lay naked in blood-soaked sheets for a few days. I was yelled at for not completing my food preferences form. I was continuously asked where my 'Green Book' was (but it hadn't been issued and I didn't know what they were talking about). I was discharged unable to breastfeed and with no feeding plan in place. After discharge, my calls to the hospital for help were forwarded to the ward but never answered.
I can't tell you all of the things that happened. My eventual complaints letter was 11 pages. In one of my birth debrief sessions, I made the VERY senior director tear-up and postpone the rest of our session.
DO NOT attend this hospital on a public holiday long weekend.