...even if they have to cancel them at the last minute due to being needed elsewhere?
I'm booked for a home birth in May, and before being handed over to the home birth team, the midwife I was seeing at the surgery told me that home birth midwife appointments (you know, for blood pressure / wee test etc etc) would be on Saturdays.
I requested an appointment for my next check and I've now been told that they don't give appointment times because it depends on their workloads on the day, and asked whether I could be available on a weekday (I work full time).
I know that employers have to give reasonable time off for antenatal appointments (and mine would without question), but surely it's not reasonable for me to be absent for an entire day on the off-chance that I might get to see a midwife? Also, I'm running out of time before baby arrives - I don't have entire weekend days that I can just write off either.
AIBU to want an appointment time, even if it has to be broken by a call-out? My DH thinks that I shouldn't ask again for a specific time, and instead just agree to wait around for a whole day for every appointment 'to avoid making an enemy of a midwife'. It may be my hormones, but I don't think it's reasonable.
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SweetPeaSoup · 24/03/2015 08:41
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