Why we chose private maternity care at The Kensington Wing

When I found out I was pregnant with Baby Girl, I spent hours online. My main concern wasn’t finding the best buggy. It was finding the very best private maternity care in London to fit our needs.

We decided to go for The Kensington Wing, with our number one reason being our choice of consultant. We had been recommended the brilliant and lovely consultant obstetrician Professor Mark Johnson at The Kensington Wing, and I registered with him within days of finding out I was pregnant.

But apart from all the top consultants at the maternity unit, we also chose The Kensington Wing because of the other facilities available at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. I liked knowing that we were in a large hospital in the event of an emergency.

It also made sense for us to choose The Kensington Wing, as Chelsea and Westminster is the closest hospital to where we live. It was great being in an area we knew well when we were sent out for hour-long walks around the hospital after contractions started a week before my scheduled caesarean, and we came to love the Starbucks right outside the hospital in the days after the birth of Baby Girl.

I loved the fact that Daddy T could stay with me in hospital after the birth, and we had a room with a view of Fulham Road, which we had been advised to ask for when checking in.

The good-sized, clean room had an en-suite bathroom with toiletries from L’Occitane, and the food was much better than what I had expected from a hospital. The friendly midwifes and staff were also very helpful, and the in-house lactation consultant spent more than an hour with me to help with breastfeeding.

If I were to get pregnant again, I would be back in a second!

Tags: Caesarean section, Consultant-led maternity care, London, Pregnancy, Pregnant in London, Private maternity care, Professor Mark Johnson, The Kensington Wing