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The facility is nice and the room is spacious, and you don't need to bring anything
with you (such as baby clothes, diapers, wet napkins, soap, or sanitary napkins), as
you need to do in the public hospitals. We wanted to go home after 24 hours of stay
and they were okay with this, but they wouldn't agree to discharging me any earlier.
We didn't buy the package, but instead just paid for all procedures done and materi-
als used and since I didn't use any medication during labor and we stayed at hospital
for only one day, it was about RMB8,000 cheaper than the package at that time (nor-
mally at least RMB34,000 for a natural birth with three-day stay).
SABRINA
French expat Sabrina has also been living in Beijing for more than eight years. When
she decided to have her baby in China, she chose Beijing Wuzhou Women & Chil-
dren's Hospital (GlobalCare).
There were a couple of reasons why I chose a Chinese hospital. Firstly, we had
heard some really good things about the equipment in local hospitals and, in fact, the
ultrasound machines in Wuzhou seemed really new. A Chinese friend of mine, who
gave birth at Wuzhou Hospital and was quite satisfied with the service there, advised
me to choose a hospital close to where I lived. So while I was still able, I could ride
there on my bicycle in 10 minutes.
I also chose Wuzhou because of the stories that I'd heard about [another popular
Chinese hospital]. While a friend of mine was delivering, her translator fainted, and
doctors and nurses chatted around her throughout the process, saying, “Look how
lazy she is. If she can't push harder she'll still be here tomorrow.” Unfortunately she
could understand them. Another friend was offered a C-section when she was five
months pregnant, her translator wasn't very good with medical language, and all her
tests had “pregnancy at risk” written in bold red characters on them, because she was
35.
So finally I visited Wuzhou Hospital and asked to see someone so that I could ask
some questions, and it turned out that they seemed ready to listen to the wishes of
their patients. They even proposed water delivery, saying they were promoting nat-
ural methods (even though they warned me that it would be very very painful when
I asked if they would allow me to not have an epidural).
Additionally, when I asked about the prenatal classes, I loved the answer: “Yes,
we do. We have a one-hour yoga class once a month, and one session about feeding,
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