I am 39 weeks so obviously labour could start at any time, hoping for my 2nd homebirth if all goes smoothly.
For my first HB (which was in another part of the country) the protocol was for GP to prescribe a single dose of pethidine for me to keep at home and midwife to administer if I wanted it. For this birth, my new surgery is refusing to prescribe.
They are saying it is the responsibility of the midwife to supply. The midwife says they can do this, but all the pethidine is kept in a safe so can only be accessed during office hours and they have to find a 2nd midwife to pick it up. So would be delayed if available at all.
Have been going round in circles for a week now, and I don't know what to do. My GPs attitude has been pretty rude and unhelpful tbh so I will be making a complaint, but I just need to get sorted now.
Did you have pethidine at your HB, and who prescribed?
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Homebirth- who prescribes the pethidine?
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snoggle · 04/06/2014 10:04
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