Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets

Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.

The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.

Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labour being turned away from hospitals because they are full.

* 63 births in ambulances and 608 in transit to hospitals; * 117 births in A&E departments, four in minor injury units and two in medical assessment areas; * 115 births on other hospital wards and 36 in other unspecified areas including corridors; * 399 in parts of maternity units other than labour beds, including postnatal and antenatal wards and reception areas.

Additionally, overstretched maternity units shut their doors to any more women in labour on 553 occasions last year.

Babies were born in offices, lifts, toilets and a caravan, according to the Freedom of Information data for 2007 and 2008 from 117 out of 147 trusts which provide maternity services.

One woman gave birth in a lift while being transferred to a labour ward from A&E while another gave birth in a corridor, said East Cheshire NHS Trust.

Trouble is, the vast majority of welfare is in the form of public schools. Most of the people who have children in public schools have not paid and never will pay anywhere near as much in school-supporting taxes as is being spent on their children. And virtually none of those with more than 2 children in public schools will ever pay the full tab. But to have a bunch of totally illiterate people entering adult society, because we let their leechy parents have them but then didn’t get the kids of out of these homes for a few hours a day to get even the cursory education that most public school provide, would be a recipe for disaster.

Reality check: The productive members of our society are being ever more heavily taxed (and as a result limiting their own reproduction), in order to pay for the ever expanding population of non-productive people who keep voting for more and more socialist handouts for themselves. We are fast approaching a tipping point. We’re already at the point where most productive members of society can’t afford to keep their children out of the government indoctrination centers that pass for “schools”, and which brainwash many of the offspring of productive members of society to think and vote like the offspring of the leeches. You may find it uncomfortable to face these facts, but your present discomfort pales in comparison to what your children and grandchildren will experience if this is allowed to continue for a couple more generations. Children born to non-productive parents WILL look to government for support and WILL grow into adults who vote for the government to support everyone who isn’t supporting themselves. It’s already happened to a degree sufficient to elect the solidly socialist Barack Obama to the White House.

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