What it’s prefer to give birth at the royal-favourite Portland Hospital: Afternoon tea, designer toiletries and football stars next door

Meghan Markle, Jerry Hall and Victoria Beckham are only a few of the famous mothers who have given birth at London’s famed Portland Medical center. And this week, Princess Eugenie welcomed her earliest child, a baby boy, at the same medical center where she herself was created back in 1990.

With their set of notable births browsing like a mix of the who’s who of British entertainment (Jack Whitehall and Romeo Beckham are baby alumni) and royals (Princess Beatrice and Archie Mountbatten-Windsor), the hospital’s world-famous reputation is the reason so many recognisable names tend to welcome their bundles of joy there.

It also doesn’t hurt that the individual maternity medical center has all the trappings and trimmings you’d expect from a good five-star hotel, including room assistance, concierges, oh, and newborn hairdressers - more on that later on.

So, what’s it prefer to offer birth where royals and A-listers as well welcome their babies into the world?

‘Like an extravagance spa’

“It’s a very elevated knowledge,” says Dubai businesswoman Katie Watson Grant, who welcomed her child, Rafferty, nowadays 2, at Portland Medical center in 2018.

“It includes a really nice, high class vibe so it’s rather like coming to an upmarket spa instead of a hospital. There will be candles in the holding out rooms and it’s very quiet and peaceful.”

Watson Grant, who lives in Jumeirah Park, is the owner of tablescaping business Lavender & May, and thought we would offer birth at Portland Hospital after her husband’s work meant leaving Dubai and moving temporarily back again to the UK.

“I had friends who had given birth there and had had a great experience, but of course I was also aware that quite a few superstars had given birth there, too,” she says. “Quite early on in my own pregnancy I had a whole lot of complications, however the staff and consultants were so well-versed in all the problems I had. It had been just an ideal fit, I felt so relaxed there.”

Afternoon tea at 3pm

“On the tour, there were three or four different degrees of rooms from which to choose, and what is very wonderful is that your partner gets well taken care of, too,” says Watson Grant, whose husband, Lewis Grant is in business development.

“You can want to have a double bed or two singles, and they generate the bed - a genuine bed not really a pull-out - for your lover each evening and make it up with Egyptian cotton sheets. Each morning, they arrive and take it aside to provide you with more space.

“The room had a good amount of wardrobe space, in addition to a desk for work, that was useful as Lewis still had work to accomplish, as I finished up being in hospital for eight times. There’s a sofa and a Television, and the bathroom is similar to a hotel bathroom, with designer toiletries.

“The meals is amazing,” she adds. “You get a full room program menu serving restaurant-quality foodstuff, and it’s 24-hour service. There’s as well a snack menu. There will be full three-course meals, and also a drinks list, many teas and hot beverages, anything you could need. There’s also another menu for afternoon tea which can be every day at 3pm - sandwiches, cakes, jam and clotted cream, everything, Plus, all dietary requirements happen to be catered for, such as for example vegan, diabetic and halal. Apparently, they get yourself a lot of consumers from Dubai and the center East.”

One-on-one particular midwife and concierge service

One of the factors Katie says she enjoyed the most was first having the same midwife for the complete duration of her stay. With a bunch of complications that necessitated an elective caesarean, Watson Grant says having a familiar encounter around helped reduce stress around the birth.

“From your day we were shown to your room to the time we left, I had the same midwife the complete time,” she says.

Post-birth, moms are taken up to the recovery area where there happen to be soothing candles and flowers, together with something to eat and drink if indeed they want.

“They brought in tea and toast, or you could have whatever you liked. After a couple of days of fasting, I really, actually needed a lobster roll, so we purchased it and the concierge services provided it to the area.

“There are numerous extras you can include to your birthing package, such as for example having a photographer in the area to take photos. I was even told about one baby who got a haircut straight after being born as they had been born with so very much hair,” she says.

Adding that staff unveiled Canadian crooner Michael Buble sang in the birthing space when his wife, Luisana Lopilato welcomed their third kid there, Watson Grant acquired her own brush with a celebrity, revealing: “We'd an England soccer player nearby to us whose wife was having a baby.”

“The staff are actually accommodating and they remember everything,” she says, “even down to how you take your tea. But what I liked the virtually all is that there is a lot of concentrate on the well-staying of the mom.”