Awesome homebirth transfer experience?

[thistime]

I'm giving birth at home this time, but I'm struggling with which hospital to go to in case of need to transport (non-emergent).  

I had a pretty awful postpartum experience at Mt. Auburn last time.  Nasty nurses, shared room (that was dirty and in disrepair), berated by the on-call pedi, waiting forever for nurses to respond to my calls.  I know some other mamas IRL who has similar "meh" experiences in the postpartum unit, even after fantastic births with the midwives.  

Where has anyone had a great homebirth transport experience?  Did you do partial parallel care or just show up?  I'm interested in hearing both L&D and postpartum experiences.

Edited by thistime - 1/6/12 at 4:30pm

[BellyfullBirth]

Sounds like you are in central MA but I've heard great things about transferring to both Holyoke Medical and Franklin Medical out here in Western MA. They are the backup of choice for homebirth midwives and moms out this way. 

[Vancouver Mommy]

I had a quite lovely transfer experience with my first. I ran out of energy and was not progressing at all so I transferred into BC Women's for a epi and a nap before giving birth to DD. I beat myself up for a long time for not managing labour better and for having to transfer at all, but in hindsight the experience was quite positive. BC has a good history of working well with midwives,  and my midwife had full hospital priveledges, so I wasn't given any crap from docs or nurses, and my midwife ran the show entirely. I birthed at 7pm and my midwife signed my discharge papers as soon as I'd been up, showered and used the bathroom. I was home in my own bed with my new dd by midnight. It would have been sooner, but DH had to go home to get the car.

Edited to add: I just realized you were looking for location specific experiences, not transfer experiences in general.

[lallaria]

I transferred into Newton Wellesley and had a wonderful experience.  Just one OB that was a little disrespectful (oddly the same OB that delivered my first DS who was planned hospital), and not 5 minutes after she left my room, my pedi came in, and I mentioned it to her, and she said "Oh, I'm avoiding her today, she's moody."

I was a planned homebirth with a surprise breech that we tried to deliver but he deceled during a push so we went in, his hands were back up behind his head, and he had a nuchial cord.  L&D was wonderful, DH held our baby until I was ready to go to recovery, then I held him as I was pushed out the door (so as soon as possible), and then nursed him right away (with help, as I was still a bit numb).  Delayed bath for many hours (I think he had it at 1am).  Anyway, no problems at all, and the nurses were almost too sympathetic (I was upset but not devastated - I chose homebirth because I knew if I had a cesarean it would be because I truly needed it!).  Only 1 nurse that told me I couldn't cosleep, that was my last night and I didn't see her much anyway.

My midwife usually transfers to Brigham & Women's, but I chose Newton Wellesley because my first DS was born there so we knew it pretty well, and it was not a case of a distressed baby, and also because I knew that my normal pedi worked rounds there (I got really lucky and she was on rounds while I was there :) ).