this is my first pregnancy so I am trying not to make a massive fuss about everything (i.e twinges, morning sickness, sinus problems) so that people will get fed up of my moaning.
But am I wrong to complain that I have not yet had a date for my scan yet???
I went the doc's first week of Dec to get the ball rolling and they said a midwife would be in touch.
2.5 weeks later I received a call from the midwife on a friday but due to work missed her and she finished work at 1 pm. Called her back the Monday - no answer so left a message and no reply
Tuesday - called again left message no reply but received an text off her saying it was her day off and she'd call Wednesday
Wednesday - again no call back
I left it until the end of the week and called the hospital to speak to someone else but they told me to call the midwife that was on call again(so I was back to square one again)
I was 11 weeks by this point and I did manage to get through to different midwife left my details with her and guess what.......she would give me a call back
Thursday a midwife called asking me if I had a booking in appt (i didnt even know what a booking in appt was as no one had actually explained this me prior and clearly communication skills are top notch with this group of midwives)
The midwife did say "I can fit you in quickly this afternoon before my other appts" (like I was an inconvenience to them) I tried explaining to her I wasn't happy about the lack of communication and she cut me off saying ''well we have been busy''.
so she turned up we got the forms filled in and she said I would receive a letter off the hospital and a call the following Friday to book me in for my 16 week appt.
Friday rolled around, different midwife again. I told her I was expecting her call to which I was replied she didn't know she was meant to be ringing me! but she booked me in then and there
another 2 weeks passed heard nothing off the hospital (I am now 13 weeks) so I ring the hospital and guess what they hadn't even received my forms, I was livid by this point and had to do more ringing around trying to get hold of the midwives who never answer their phones. Finally got through and I had another "I'll give you a call back" she called back about 2 hours later saying she didn't understand why my forms hadn't been given to the hospital and that she would do it that day. I asked how long roughly would it take for me to receive a date? she didn't know it would depend on the back log.
so now another week later I am now approaching 15 weeks next week and still no date.
I am highly frustrated but am I wrong to be?
my main cause of concern is that my partner works away as a teacher so he cant just 'drop' everything without notice, and I am the same I travel around a lot with work to different companies for meetings so again I cant just drop everything with out advance.
I know work is not more important than my baby but for the sake of organising my work and finding someone to cover is a nightmare.
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14 weeks and still not had a date for my first scan
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Readaholic · 18/01/2015 17:48
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