Hospital Tour

So we had our hospital tour last night, hubby took the Anthony Henday to get there and I timed it .... 40 minutes!! :o He better pick up the pace when it is "time", 40 minutes will seem like a long time when I'm in the middle of a contraction!! Or we need to try a different route cause it wasn't even rush hour! The tour went fairly well, I wasn't as impressed as I thought I was going to be? The nurse wasn't half as humorous either! ;) Maybe I just feel more comfortable at the hospital by our house cause I've been there so much? I was surprised to find out that the St.Albert hospital now has two maternity wards, one on the main floor and one on the second floor. The main floor mat ward isn't quite fully functioning yet (due to staff shortages) and she said they use it mostly for c-section recoveries (the rooms were about half the size as the ones upstairs). Then the rooms upstairs are for labor/ delivery/ recovery (normal vaginal births - no complications). Both wards seems to be quite empty!? And I was also surprised to see that the beds they have in the LDR rooms look like they are original from when the hospital was opened!?!!? It looked like some ancient Chinese torture device!!! :o The beds at the hospital by my house have twice as thick of a mattress and look much newer, not all used and abused!! So now I'm not too sure if I'm looking forward to going to that hospital? Not only is it really far away, which kinda worries me but it really wasn't as nice as I remember it being? The only benefit is that you are guaranteed a private room for no extra cost. O - and I was also surprised to see that the fee for circumcision (if we have a boy) is $231.00 plus your doctor fee and at the hospital by our house it was only $180ish. That would make up the $40 fee for the private room!? So as it stands right now I think hubby and I have decided that we aren't going to panic about getting to St.Albert and if I am having a hard time with pain/ labor then we will just go to the hospital by our house, it's not like they can refuse me and it's not like my doctor really does anything (if she even makes it there on time)? At both hospitals they even said that your doctor just sneaks in at last minute to catch the baby and then leaves again!? The nurse at this hospital also recommended that we have our bags packed - so I guess I should really get on that! I think I will have to also pack the name book cause we still have no name!! :o