{"id":86957,"date":"2026-07-29T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/calls-for-change-after-fertility-appointment-inside-maternity-unit\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:00:00","slug":"calls-for-change-after-fertility-appointment-inside-maternity-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=86957","title":{"rendered":"Calls for change after fertility appointment inside maternity unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described sitting alongside expectant parents and families before receiving difficult news about her fertility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was heartbreaking,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I went in for my appointment, which was a hard appointment, and then had to walk back out past those families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The South Eastern Trust, where Smyth was treated, said it hopes to relocate outpatient gynaecology services from the Ulster Hospital&#8217;s maternity unit in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smyth said that it was not until after the appointment when she started to think about her experience, thinking she could not be the only person to feel upset about the location of her appointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She decided to share a video online and many women contacted her with similar stories, alluding that this is a wider issue throughout Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It isn&#8217;t just me; it&#8217;s been going on for years and nothing has changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgv2e44zx4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She described sitting alongside expectant parents and families before receiving difficult news about her fertility. &#8220;It&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4443,297,185,3617,2846,1043],"class_list":["post-86957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-appointment","tag-calls","tag-change","tag-fertility","tag-maternity","tag-unit"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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