What thoughtless/ tactless things has your doc/midwife/consultant said/done so far?

[Annie050408]

I have to say that I've been incredibly lucky so far and that pretty much everyone I've dealt with has been wonderful to us but yesterday, the consultant doing our growth scan asked me in the middle of the scan what my down's results had been - my heart just dropped into my stomach and I managed to squeak out '1:33,000' and he said, 'oh that's good'. I just lay there thinking what has he seen?! Luckily DH was there and asked outright if the consultant had seen a problem or anything indicating downs or anything else to which he replied 'No, everything looks perfect' DH then pressed him and said 'Oh it's just that since you mentioned it I thought you must have seen something' and the consultant said 'Nope, it's just that I don't have your notes in front of me so I asked out of interest' .....!

DH and I would have kept and loved our child no matter what but considering that we've had loads of scans and the combined test and never had any indication that there was a problem except bub being a bit small, we'd assumed that was not really something we had to prepare ourselves for.

Talk about freaking you out for no reason!!

 

[Lacey's Mummy]

That must've been horrible to hear!! My mw has been quite good so far!! She did say I'll prob have the same complications I had after laceys birth, a retained placenta, but I've since spoken to 2 other mw's and they've said it's unlikely to happen again!! Phew!!

 

[berit87]

Oh my god!!!! That is absolutely horrendous! That should have been the first thing to say, I don't wanna worry you and there is absolutely nothing wrong but since I don't have your notes in front of me, out of curiosity.... Even then I probably still would have been a bit worried! Outrageous!

I haven't really had anything like that... I have been lucky, then again much hasn't been done and haven't seen my MW of GP all that much

 

[MrsR]

One of the midwives I saw (not my named mw) basically told me that I'd change my mind about home birth. Bearing in mind that I've wanted a home birth since the last time I was pg and had mmc so it's very very doubtful that I'll change my mind! Apart from that I have been very very very lucky with all my consultant/mw/sonographer appts, in fact most of the time we have a laugh at my appts x

 

[K&A]

ive been ok with most of mine. It seems to be the midwifes at hospital. Yesterday i got told off for not knowing i should be on iron tablets. I thought oh im sorry i didn't know i was a dr and why didn't i just whip out my prescription pad hehe. But i just shrugged her off. She seems to be one of those people who just doesn't smile or respond happily to anything x

 

[xxbeckyxx]

So far *touch wood* everyone I have seen has been lovely, my midwife even said to my colleague (who is also pregnant and seeing her) I am 'a lovely girl' when she went for her appointment after me
The only time I've felt a bit silly is when the receptionist asked for a certain bit of paperwork at my 12 week scan and I hadn't even looked through my bounty pack properly so didn't have a clue where anything was! My fault really though lol.