I am 32 weeks pregnant and just moved to a new area. I signed up at the surgery next to my house and asked if I could start my antenatal care there. The receptionist made me an appointment to see the Head of Antenatal stuff Doctor, which I turned up to this morning.
As soon as I sat down (with my big belly and hospital notes) she abruptly said 'what are you here for?', which seemed a bit cold from the start, but then went on to seemingly have an issue with everything I said, which I was not expecting from any kind of appointment, never mind this one!
I explained that I was here for an antenatal appointment and she said that it was not antenatal clinic day and that I had been booked as a routine appointment. How was I to know this - I was just turning up to an appointment that the receptionist asked me to go along to - she made me feel like I was completely wasting my time for being there! She said that I needed to book another appointment with the midwife who is in on a wed and fri. I said that I couldn't do wednesdays so could I do fri. She said that the midwife was fully booked then and the following week, so it was really important that I should wed as I needed blood pressure checks etc done. She had a blood pressure machine sat on the desk next to her so I said well can you not do that for me now? She said no because I was on a routine appointment not an antenatal appointment!!
Few other bits too that just were really abrupt and rude - when she said you need to register with the hospital I explained that I'd already booked into the birthing centre. She said no you haven't, you can't have done, you have to have booked through the hospital. I had been told by the birthing centre that I was booked in, I was just passing on what they said to me - no need to make me feel so stupid?
And I said that I wasn't due to be seen by my previous midwife for another couple of weeks, but again she told me I was wrong and that I would be due to be seen at 31/32 weeks. Obviously in different areas they have different schedules as I showed her my notesthat I was actually correct, again don't know why I felt like she was being argumentative rather than helpful?
In the end we left it with her saying that she would get the midwife to call me to try and get me fitted in somehow for Friday, but this was only after I was trying to not let the tears roll down my face and I think she noticed I was upset by this point.
I don't normally get upset like this and would normally stick up for myself if I feel someone's being unreasonable, but I think I just felt so shocked as the whole appointment was not what I was expecting, I left feeling like I'd wasted her time for being there (I was told to go to this appointment, I didn't randomly ask for it!) and that she wanted to pick holes in anything I said and couldn't help me.
Am I being over-sensitive / hormonal about this??