Consultant lead care?

[BabyMadwithBump]

What does that intail? Does that mean I can kiss good bye to a home birth? Do I still get to see A MW?
They've just found out I have an over-active thyroid and they changed my care from MW care to consultant care!
I just dont know, as I had MW care with both my DC and now this I just dont know what is going to happen!
Thanks, Babymadxx

[Wheelybug]

IME it means you go to the hospital for your appointments rather than mw/gp but I think some people just have the gp appointments with the consultant.

Not sure how it would affect a homebirth - I would have thought it would depend on how your condition could cause problems in labour/after labour.

[lulumama]

if you are classed as high risk now, rather than low risk, you will be under consultant led care. unless there are specific reasons your condition would make a homebirth dangerous, there is no reason you shouldn't be able to have one....do you know what impact your thyroid condition has on pregnancy / labour? you will also see the midwife, but might be encouraged to have a hospital birth...which might be unnecessary..

[PoppiesMum]

Just means you'll have extra ante natal appnts athospital as well as with your m/w. I was put down as 'consultant led care' simply for having PCOS - it didn't affect my pregnancy at all, and I was offered a home birth if I wanted one. Good Luck.

[BabyMadwithBump]

The Baby will need to be checked for this over-active thyroid once he/she is born, but I dont know if thats stright away or within a few days, and a MW at the hospital said (when I went for my scan on monday) that all my care will take place at the hospital now!
Very soon I will be on baby safe med's for the thyroid thing and my med's will change agan as soon as baby is born to stronger stuff, no BF for me now, even though i was only going to BF for 3 days!

[yomellamoHelly]

For me meant all apps at hospital. Always saw midwife first and then consultant also a couple of times. (To complicate matters also saw another consultant separately to this whose advice was passed on to the maternity peepsby letter. Saw her 4 times.)
Main thing was that I was seen by loads of different people - I didn't have a named midwife iyswim, so no relationship built. Not sure what the homebirth implications would be for you. One of my consultants said it would be far too dangerous. (Had really uneventful labour, discharged same day.) Not thyroid though.