To think this is a bit insensitive of the midwife and be upset/ anxious

[NewlyMintedPeasant]

I'm 18 weeks and went just over a week ago for a the quadruple blood test (couldn't do nuchal scan) and re-do my booking bloods as they seemed to go missing.

The midwives clock off at 5pm, at 4.58pm I didn't get to my phone in time and a midwife from the hospital left a message to call her back to discuss my blood test results. I tried to call straight back but no answer, now I'm sitting and stewing and stewing. She did say 'nothing to worry about' but I am!

I really wish she'd left no message and tried again in the morning rather than leave a message when she can't be contacted 1 min after leaving it.

What could it be???

It will be nothing to worry about!! If she said that then relax. She'll be just ringing to tell you the results of the tests, which will have been fine. Midwives don't say there's nothing to worry about if there is - she would have just said "call back" if there was a problem.

PS YAneverBU to worry during pregnancy!! But her message sounded fine!

When my test results were bad they sent a midwife to my house to talk to me about them, rather than calling on the phone. If they say it's nothing to worry about, then no doubt there isn't. Not worrying is easier said than done though of course.

Oh I know. This happened to me when pregnant. Call on the answer phone; hello blameit, this is midwife X from the ante natal unit. I wanted to call you to discuss you HIV results please could you call me back urgently.

Message left at 5pm on Friday evening - no midwife available until 10am Monday morning. It turned out that they had lost my bloods (again). Thanks. That was a great weekend.

So my vote is for them having lost your bloods once more...

Maybe they've lost your bloods again she was trying to let you know asap so you could book in for more. If its happened twice they'll be dancing about like some one's set fire to their scrubs trying to sort it out as soon as they can.
Its quite likely its something so banal she didn't even think about you becoming anxious.

Cross posts with the Bogey, great minds and all that :)

If she said not to worry then it's because there is nothing to worry about.

It is nothing to worry about,if they had bad news they wouldn't have left it until 2 minutes before clocking off time to ring you as you would be bound to have lots of questions.(and then delayed them).

She left the message to reassure you,if you just saw a missed call from them on your phone you would have panicked 'why didn't they leave a message???it must be bad news!!'.

Stop worrying,its nothing bad.

I guess I worry that their 'nothing to about' has varied from mine past pregnancies.

I guess I need to distract myself

My MW called me to say my results were all ok. She actually said in my area if there are any high risks a specialist MW from the hospital would call, so when I got the message from my usual MW I knew things were fine.

Try not to worry, I'm sure she meant it when she said all was fine :) welcome to parenthood!!

Glaiki- my usual midwife is clinic based near me, this was from the hospital.

Last pregnancy I had no contact except rountine appts, during which blood test results were fed back, regardless of how long after them it was. No letter or call.

They'd get into a lot of trouble if they went from "nothing to worry about" to "there's something wrong". It'll just be to tell you that your bloods are within normal limits.

it does seem really silly to call you 2 minutes before they closed asking you to call back
they must know that pregnant women will often be worried, even when told not to! it's part and parcel of being pregnant.

i am sure all is fine though OP, ring them first thing in the morning

She probably left a message so you weren't kept in suspense for another night. Not very clear though!

Still, I'm 100% sure the would say nothing to worry about, when there was. That would be very bad. Just try to re,ax tonight and call them first thing. Policies will have probably changed since your last pregnancy.

It will be fine I'm sure.

I had a similar call and they were calling to tell me I was mildly anaemic but it really was nothing to worry about because it wasn't even bad enough to warrant iron tablets. I was not impressed as I had to wait from the message on Fri afternoon till the following Tuesday to find out. I'm sure you will be fine.

Could it be that you have O-neg bloods (like me) or something similar that require a little extra monitoring but are absolutely fine?

Agree she wouldn't have said 'nothing to worry about' if it was. Iv had a dreaded call (day after a scan) and clearly there was something to worry about, when I asked was everything ok she just replied with 'we would like to see you how soon can you come in'

It really will be nothing bad, believe me, they have ways and means of dealing with bad/urgent things out of hours!

I have had my MW phone and ask to come see me, and say it would be a good idea to have DH come home from work too

I have had consultant obst, ring at about 4.30pm on a friday - same again, Dh and I were straight up to the hosp at 5pm when they should have been going home - and we had an appointment in a london hospital booked at 5.30 over the phone, for 10am on the Monday!

It will be something really trivial, so don't sit worrying all night!

Thank you if you tried to calm me down. Turns out the guy who took my blood not only took 7 vials, 3 needles to get 3 vials of blood and bruised my arm with a 7x3 inch bruise but he also didn't label the blood so it's not been tested. I have to have them re-done.

YANBU as pregnancy is so stressful. But all of my blood tests went missing during my first pregnancy. I had to go to different hospitals for the tests and then they were supposed to send them onto the GPs surgery where I saw the midwife. I saw 3 different MW's and the GP during my pregnancy - none of them were worried about the lack of blood tests.

Glad it was all ok. What a nuisance you need to get them redone though!