I had an emergency section with ds1 and have just booked in to have an elective section for ds2 on 2nd Oct.
When I went to the clinic this week to arrange this the consultant wasn't available so I saw a registrar instead who was perfectly pleasant but simply unable to answer the questions I had. Including who was the consultant who would be doing the sections on the day they had booked me in for. Having phoned the secretary of the consultant I have been under until now to ask this I was told that they do not know until the end of this month when the rota is published.
Now I know that if this all happened as an emergency then I wouldn't have the luxury of going to talk to my consultant before hand but it's not and I do! And while I can't understand how they can run a service where the consultants do not know what their commitments are from one week to the next, if this is the case then I accept I won't be able to know who will be performing my section until the end of the month.
But I am a surgical registrar myself so I have some very specific requests and questions that I want answered before this goes ahead and I am not happy to leave it to the morning of the section to do this. Moreover as I have signed the consent form in clinic there is no reason why they would even come and see me before I have the section.
I think I am probably being a bit precious but I don't think being able to talk to someone who will be both performing major surgery on me AND delivering my son is too much to ask? What do you think?