My MW appointments are frustrating me more and more the further I am into my pregnancy. She is ALWAYS running at least 20 minutes behind so by the time I eventually get in there I feel like I'm just rushed through my appointment like a whirlwind and barely have time to think of all the things I wanted to mention to her let alone talk to her about them!!! I'm normally in and out in less than 10 minutes and during that time she barely looks at me to speak to me because she's too busy writing in my notes and looking at the computer.
Today was my 34 week appointment and I had to have a blood test because my previous two have shown an abnormal white blood cell count which could mean I've got some kind of infection somewhere. She didn't bother to explain to me what will happen if the count is still low or what impact it has on the baby etc etc
On top of that my next appointment is my 36 week one and because I've requested a home birth I know that at some time around 36 weeks that she has to call into me at home to drop off an emergency home birth pack........when I asked her about it I just got a reply of 'oh, remind me to pick you one up when you next come in'!! Ok.......well what if I go into labour at 37 weeks?????
She had a student MW with her today and when the student sounded interested in me having a home birth my MW just said 'well.....she's going to have to see how she goes on first'
I could have screamed at her.
When I first mentioned I wanted a home birth she was on holiday so I had to book it through a stand in MW who was soooo nice about it and really positive and even said that she's hoping she's on call the time I go into labour because she likes home births so much
As soon as my normal MW was back she's done nothing but put a dampner on it and keeps going on about how it's my first pregnancy so no-one knows what will happen........do you think I'm not well aware of that woman!!!! gosh....she gets on my nerves!
I don't know what she's moaning so much for, she only works two days a week and one of those are spent in the surgery doing appointments so there's pretty much no chance that I'll get here when I go into labour anyway......at least I hope not
Anyway....just needed to have a rant and let off some steam, if there's anyone still there.....thanks for reading
Today was my 34 week appointment and I had to have a blood test because my previous two have shown an abnormal white blood cell count which could mean I've got some kind of infection somewhere. She didn't bother to explain to me what will happen if the count is still low or what impact it has on the baby etc etc
On top of that my next appointment is my 36 week one and because I've requested a home birth I know that at some time around 36 weeks that she has to call into me at home to drop off an emergency home birth pack........when I asked her about it I just got a reply of 'oh, remind me to pick you one up when you next come in'!! Ok.......well what if I go into labour at 37 weeks?????
She had a student MW with her today and when the student sounded interested in me having a home birth my MW just said 'well.....she's going to have to see how she goes on first'
I could have screamed at her. When I first mentioned I wanted a home birth she was on holiday so I had to book it through a stand in MW who was soooo nice about it and really positive and even said that she's hoping she's on call the time I go into labour because she likes home births so much
As soon as my normal MW was back she's done nothing but put a dampner on it and keeps going on about how it's my first pregnancy so no-one knows what will happen........do you think I'm not well aware of that woman!!!! gosh....she gets on my nerves!I don't know what she's moaning so much for, she only works two days a week and one of those are spent in the surgery doing appointments so there's pretty much no chance that I'll get here when I go into labour anyway......at least I hope not
Anyway....just needed to have a rant and let off some steam, if there's anyone still there.....thanks for reading
