Just had very strange call from the midwife

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Demanding to know why I'd missed lots of ante natal appointments and my 20 week scan and saying she was coming to see me tomorrow morning. After a slightly stunned silence I said I thought maybe she'd got the wrong person as I wasn't pregnant. According to her records, I'm 21 weeks pregnant. She's really concerned as I'm classed as high risk (true)

She had the right person - right date of birth, address, name and she was the same lovely midwife I had when I was pregnant with DS and DD. I remember her well she's a lovely woman.

She was absolutely mystified by my insistence that I am not so far as I know 25 weeks pregnant... but not quite so mystified as me by the news that I am.

DD is 16 and DS is very nearly 10 - I'm not planning another

@Dinoteeth people free birth all the time and self register their babies.

Should get to the root as maybe someone is out there in need of your midwife.

That strikes me as inviting more unnecessary medicalisation, rather than less.

When my friend went to the doctors one time she was asked if her memory was any better and how she got on at the memory clinic. When she said she hadn’t been to the clinic, and had no problem with her memory, it just proved to the doctor how bad her memory problems were. She ended up asking her husband and all her friends if she’d ever mentioned going to a memory clinic and was starting to think she had major problems (that she’d forgotten about). It’s still on her record that she has memory problems but she’s convinced that they’ve mixed up her records.