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

It is scary how details can get mixed up.. I was at the Gp’s for a blood test and ecg a few weeks ago, sat in the waiting room and the nurse called out my name, didn’t hear her as I’m partially deaf and saw another much younger woman follow the nurse in so obviously assumed it had been her name called.
was still there waiting half an hour later and surgery was closing for lunch, another nurse came over and asked what I was waiting for so I told her, turns out the other woman had said she was me! I don’t think in an identity stealing way I think she probably just wasn’t listening when asked to confirm her name and DOB for the blood test but she had an ecg she wasn’t meant to have as she was there for a totally different reason and didn’t question what that was for and also she was about 20 years younger than me! Name wasn’t similar or anything 🤷‍♀️ Think it was a bit weird the nurse didn’t notice but seems it’s easily done!

I want update please!!!!

It most likely is a mix up, though I’d probably do a check that my name, details are not linked to anyone else

Another here totally invested in this thread and waiting for the update 🤣

Could be worse, a few years back my Ddad received a threatening letter about benefit fraud for continuing to claim for my dead mum. After a shock and a bit of head scratching my mum had a long day on the phone trying to convince people that she was, in fact, very much alive!!

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Please answer the door to the Midwife with a big cushion shoved up your top. 😁

😃😂😂😂

@BoopTheFoof

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Maybe you should read the whole thread and then you would see that others have said the same.

Ooh it could be a glitch in the matrix OP, your 'you' in a parallel universe is pregnant and they have accidentally contacted you here 😁

If you were 20 weeks pregnant last week, you could be due around Christmas Day.

You need to POAS 😂😂😂😂

The problem with the NHS I've found is that once the mistake has been made, you have to shift heaven and earth to get it corrected. Computer says no.

I had a hysterectomy in 2016. They removed womb, cervix but I kept my ovaries. I get letters every 3 months reminding me about my smear for my non-existent cervix with lots of leaflets. I have given up trying to make them stop as nobody knows how to as they are issued centrally not from my GP.

Agree this is probably a case of someone with a similar/same name, they have given their details as Julie Jones when you're Julia Jones or whatever and whoever did the data entry attached the pregnancy to the wrong file. I was at school with two girls both called Patricia Fitzpatrick, they were the only Patricias in the whole school and the only Fitzpatricks. Not related.

Mistakes happen. When MiL and FiL accessed their GP records on the app, there was mention on hers of her scrotum!

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@KnittingNeedles - this is very true. I once spotted on my GP records on the screen they’d given me advice to stop smoking. I have never smoked. I had a real battle getting it removed, it could have affected life/travel insurance etc. I was livid because it wasn’t a mistake. It was a funding thing, more people they advised the more funding they got. I do not begrudge the GP extra money but not at the detriment of my family.

Patricia Fitzpatrick, what a name! And twice!

Just before lockdown March 2020, I was put on to medication for a very high BP.Trying to get a repeat script was a nightmare, sugery didnt even have an answerphone on or message. Back and forth to the pharmacy. You have to put scripts into the surgery in writing. In the summer, I collected scripts from pharmacy, pack didnt feel right, opened it, said it wasnt mine, woman came over said that was what was ordered and prescribed, I said not by me. Turns out there is a woman with the same first and last name as me, almost identical age, living 2 roads away, also registered at the same practice. The pharmacy, broke data protect rules, I knew her address,date of birth and what meds she was on. Had one hell of a job sorting it out!

After laughing about it I’d worry someone was out there pregnant without having the proper support

Did they date anyone called Patrick by any chance ?

OP, here to find out what the midwife has to say too

My (then childless) friend had a bill from a hospital for a delivery (We live in Aus and have to pay at most hospitals). She rang and queried it, asking what exactly had been “delivered” and why did she have to pay for it. When the woman who answered the phone said “Ummmm…. Your baby?”, my friend said “My baby? I had a baby x months ago and didn’t even know? I hope someone’s looking after it!”
(Woman on other end of the phone obviously thought she was crackers, so my friend had to explain that she hadn’t given birth but had in fact, had emergency surgery to remove a ruptured fibroid cyst.)

They shouldn't mess things up and that's why they keep asking what may often seem like stupid questions like repeated name, DOB etc to check you are who they think you are.

In the OPs case, I'm wondering about identity theft for someone not registered/entitled to NHS services for whatever reason, which is worrying if there's a woman out there is is due to give birth in a few months time who's not getting the care she needs.

DP once found that there is another man who lives a few doors from us who has the same (quite unusual) name that he does. He was in the pharmacist picking up a prescription and he wasn't the only man who stepped forward when his name was called out.

So want to hear what her reaction is when you open the door clearly not pregnant lol! I'd assume some sort of computer glitch/human error rather than identity theft.

I got access to my medical records recently as you can online as I moved doctors so I had a look before I moved just out of interest. There were things on there from quite a few years back (when I moved back home after uni) which wasn't me. I was away travelling for over a year (didnt deregister etc) and there was prescriptions on there for that time for things I know I've never had (I've never had antibiotics as an adult and can count on 2 fingers how many times I've been to the doctors since I was 20, I'm not a regular customer)! I thought about kicking up a fuss about it as it wasn't me and someone had clearly been updating my record by mistake but I couldn't be fussed in the end, theyd have probably told me I was mistaken so long ago. I've moved doctors now so I'm not sure they could do anything now anyway. Does seem to happen though.

How very weird. At least they've missed all their appointments rather than making them under a false name. I suspect a clerical error.

So want to hear what her reaction is when you open the door clearly not pregnant lol! I'd assume some sort of computer glitch/human error rather than identity theft.

I'm guessing that as she knows OP she already believes her and is therefore not going to be surprised.

I'm more likely to give birth to a naughty boy than the Messiah

That made me chuckle