When Mrowiec, 27, went into labor, she first made her way to a hospital she had previously chosen as suitable.
"It was the only one I was not scared of. I had met the staff and I was impressed with the conditions there," she said.
But it was full and she was sent away. After a frantic search, her partner got her a place at a hospital in a suburb of Warsaw, where she complains that the care she got was far below standard.
"We know numerous cases of women who were seriously neglected and not cared for properly when in labor,"
Pregnant women are often sent away because the hospitals have already spent all their budget for births, she said.
Hospitals get a pool of money from the state-run health fund to offer services and once the money is gone, the hospital has no other recourse but to cut back services.
Women's organizations advise couples planning babies to try to make sure they are born before the last quarter of the year
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