I am booked in with our local MLU to have baby - my first. It's got a fantastic reputation and good facilities BUT...
I was told at by booking in appointment at the hospital to make an appointment with the unit asap to have a look round. I duly phoned after my 12 week scan, they reacted with surprise and said I didn't need to come in until I'd had the 2nd scan at 21wks. So I phoned after the second scan and they said I had ages left and they usually see people after 28 weeks. You can't make an appointment, you have to ring on the day you're planning on going.
So I phoned again last week when I was 29 weeks and asked if I could come up on the Saturday morning as it is one of the few opportunities that DH and I have to come up together as he has very few weekends off. They told me it would be fine and to ring on the Saturday morning to check it was OK as they don't show people round when women are in labour.
So I phoned on Saturday and said we had been told we could come up. The midwife said "I'm afraid we're fully booked". I had a bit of a fit at this and she said "I'm sorry but we're booked up with antenatal appointments and parentcraft classes". She then asked me how pregnant I was and I explained I was nearly 30 weeks. To which she again said "Oh, you've got ages".
No, I do not have ages, that was the only weekend that my husband is off at the same time as me until a week before the baby is born. This now means I will have to take time off work which I didn't want to do - and still not guaranteed that we could go anyway as if someone's in labour you can't go in.
AIBU to expect that they could at least have told me on the Thursday that they were booked up with appointments and I wouldn't be able to go ? And AIBU to think that by 30 weeks I might have been able to look around the facility when I have tried 3 times to go ? It's an 45 minute journey so it's not something I can fit in easily.
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to feel as if I am being fobbed off by MLU
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Fibilou · 12/11/2009 10:16
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