Can I see any others???
My baby was extremely poorly and diagnosed at 20 weeks for my first pregnancy (heart condition) and needed at least 3 open heart surgeries. I felt as I was not going to give birth at the local midwifery unit, they completely lost interest. Some of my issues were:
- midwives never read notes from cardiac consultants and I constantly had to explain from the start that my baby could die.
- My history was wrong on my notes: I had 2 early miscarriages and it said 1 miscarriage under 12 weeks and 1 abortion over 12 weeks. I asked if it could be corrected and student said that the system did not allow to enter 2 miscarriages. Yeah right.
- I was left with students. Fine if they are in the room but are they supposed to do a whole appointment without supervision?
- Constantly late!
- Midwife told me how a French lady died of pre-eclampsia. I am French and had no signs of pre-eclampsia so must have been small talk..? Like I did not have enough worries.
- I wrote an email asking for clarification and the chef midwife saw me next saying she would be my midwife from now on and said I should have said earlier but did not answer any questions from my email. Very patronising.
- The chef midwife found out my baby was born and she said she would come and see us. Never did. Fair play, I was in hospital and baby was looked after by doctors and cardiologists but don't pretend you want to go the extra mile to support me and not turn up!
Now, I am pregnant again and need to book a booking appointment but really don't want to see these midwives again! How can I see other midwives?
