Good afternoon to you all, I have a small request for information and hope that someone has experience with this.
My partner was due to give birth on 05/06/09 (this is our date worked out from the first date of the last period), but the NHS dating scan suggested that the due date was 29/05/09 (which would mean conception was before a period, although possible, we have doubts). So yesterday at a meeting with the midwives it was flagged up that 'officially' we are now 12 days over so need to talk to a consultant about the way forward. Hopefully this will be an easy informative discussion and she will understand the date discrepancy. We have heard of some hospitals putting pressure on at this stage for intervention, and we really want a natural birth at home in our birthing pool. So two things really, does anyone have any experience of disagreeing with the NHS dates, and what are the NHS instructed to do in these instances? What we want from this meeting is really an agreement that we will take all necessary care and precautions in this situation, and visit the hospital daily for checks if needed, but that if everything looks fine and the labour goes ahead at day 18 (under their prediction) they will still provided midwives and allow a home birth. Obviously we expect to sign something in the way of a disclaimer, but apart from the NHS's wildly off due date, the pregnancy has been a perfect example of a healthy pregnancy and we have no reason to believe that the birth would be any different to this. Obviously we have thught long and hard about this, but we are not going to put our baby at risk, and if there is any reason for concern then we will consider the options that come with them when they arrise.
Many thanks in advance for any help!
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Having a homebirth but disagree with hospital on conception dates
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Doooford · 10/06/2009 12:14
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