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Hospital have made me feel like I'm bothering them.

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Colabottle10 · 30/04/2016 13:37

I'm 24+4 and other than the 12 and 16 week appointments, haven't seen or bothered the midwife.

I've been sick all the way through, so have seen the GP at various points and am on medication for that and reflux issues.

Last Monday I woke with a headache that progressively got worse throughout the day despite paracetamol and sleep. When I woke at 5pm I thought I'd better give the MW a call. No answer. No answer at the community mws either so I called 111. They put me through to the Pregnancy Assessment Unit at the hospital who told me to go in. They were brilliant. Listened to babies heart (first time I'd heard it). Wee sample showed +++leukocytes so I had an infection, prob a UTI. consultant put me on 5 day course of abs and sent me home.

Over the week I've had a progressively worse pain in my groin, like a cystitis pain, which I put down to the UTI. Today is last day of abs but the pain is worse than ever. Walking is so painful. Called MW but no answer. So took myself to Pharmacist who couldnt. do anything. Told me to ring the hospital.

So ice just spoken to the rudest MW who talked to me like I was stupid. Said I didn't have an infection according to my notes, that it was just the dip test that showed the leukocytes but not the lab test. That my pain was SPD. Then she laboured on the fact I've not had any movements. I told her I had an anterior placenta and was told not to worry and she said 'yes I know what anterior means' but you should have felt something by now'. I said it was my first pregnancy and that is had flutters but wasn't sure if that was movements or not. She then spent ten minutes looking up what the period of time was for a referral because I wasn't feeling movements and said that I needed extra scans and started to scare me.

I've got a MW appointment on Wednesday with my usual lady so will speak to her about it, but I've read plenty of people don't feel anything till week 27 or 28, so I wasn't worrying. Now I'm in pain, it's a bank holiday weekend, I'm sat in the car outside the pharmacy in tears because she made me feel rubbish and stupid. I've been the least demanding on the NHS as I can be, certainly not ringing up all the time. She said oh, you were only here yesterday, when looking at my notes, and when I said that was for my GTT she backed off a bit. Made me feel like a total whinger.

Sorry, long post. Not really sure what to do now. I'm worried about the lack of movements, in pain and feel like I've been told off.

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Artioo2 · 30/04/2016 14:08

It sounds like you got unlucky with the midwife you got through to. If they heard a heartbeat last week and weren't worried, the likelihood is you're right and it's just your placenta position that's shielding movements. But it is good to get this checked out. What is she suggesting you do next, just wait for a referral? I would wait a few hours in the hope of getting through to someone else, ring up the assessment unit again, stress that you've not felt movement and are in pain and that someone their end has made you very worried and ask what they suggest. If she's genuinely worried about the movement thing, I don't understand why she wouldn't bring you in immediately for monitoring.