US Hospitals Vs UK Hospitals

I have been meaning to write something for a while but there is always something else today, then 2 days ago I was stopped in my tracks and now I want to write this down so I remember it.  My little baby girl arrived 10 days early so will be with us for Christmas so I am taking it easy now.  And I am glad for it, my body is wrecked.  That was hard and all I could think at the time was, I am too old for this, this hurts more than last time.  And after the event to add insult to injury are more pains - lower abdo. contraction pains, sore nipples and my sons asking why I still am fat..... *sigh*.  The hospital was fantastic and I probably should have just stayed in for longer than a night but they were kinda driving me mad forever checking on me.  And my middle son has a bad cough so couldn't visit and I wanted them to meet their sister. But it was like a hotel, I felt really cared for.  I know I only have the NHS to compare it to and they are brilliant but I always felt like a number and in the way.  Last time I was told to go home and if I had listened to them would have had my child on a roundabout a Sprucefield in rush hour, as it was, I was virtually giving birth in the corridor and felt as if they didn't really believe me when I said it was going to be soon - as if I was being a fuss pot.  Here it was very different, I felt like I had an army around me caring for me, washing me down (they were mad for that, in the NHS they would have let you sit in your own blood and not really have cared) and changing me.  Lovely food, including a candlelit (albeit battery operated tea light) for me and my husband in the evening.  A working tv that I didn't have use prepay cards for that didn't always work, a cool electric bed, my own room and they provided a nightie, bed socks, clothes and nappies for the baby, and pull out chair for the husband to stay over night.   He didn't but that's not the point.  So now I am home. It feels weird being here with no extended family. My mum is due over next week but we get to have Christmas with our new member and that makes it really special.  This year I already got what I wanted for Christmas.  And am so glad not to be pregnant any more.  That was a tough one....