I'm 18 weeks pg with my first and just back from my second midwife appointment. I saw a different midwife to my first appointment.
The first midwife was great but I wasn't at all happy with this one. She looked at my test results on the computer and said 'oh, human parovirus B19, what's that? It says detected, previous exposure, did you write in your notes that you'd had that?' I've never heard of this and I say I wrote that I'd had human papilloma virus detected after a colposcopy about 10 years ago. She says 'oh that'll be it then. But why does it still say detected?'
There's a student in with us who says no, human parovirus is slapped cheek syndrome. The midwife then googles this and sees the student is correct. Midwife says 'I'm none the wiser about this' and goes off to find the first midwife who took my bloods back in March but can't find her.
The student says that it says I have antibodies for this virus which just means i've been exposed at some point and that there's no diagnostic tests for slapped cheek anyway. Midwife chimes in with 'probably nothing to worry about.' By this point I'm crying (jetlagged, exhausted, very stressed as we're moving house).
Midwife asks me if I have any questions, I say when should I state where I'd like to give birth, as the other midwife told me to think about it for my next appointment? This midwife looks blank and says you're already booked in at hospital X.
She also said my urine was positive for leukocytes and asked if I had an infection. I said not to my knowledge. I know I should have asked if I needed to act on this, see my GP etc, but by this time I was really upset.
Sorry for the rant but does anyone have knowledge of antibodies for slapped cheek being detected or leukocytes in urine?
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Midwife appt - confused and upset
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AgentCooper · 16/05/2017 18:20
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