I’m 15 weeks and had a bit of a bleed one morning last week, rang my midwives who advised they would ring the early pregnancy unit at the hospital to see if what they advise. They rang me back and said they had booked me in for a scan the following morning at the hospital, and so I waited for an agonising 24 hours to see what was going on.
When I arrived at the hospital I had a chat with a nurse and then was told to take a seat before someone would do my scan. When waiting I overheard the lady who was scanning me telling the nurse I had just seen that they shouldn’t have been scanning me at my amount of weeks and who referred me etc. Also she said we wouldn’t scan unless they were overweight to which the other nurses muttered under her breath ‘well she’s not fat but she’s chubby’. Very mortified I had the scan (luckily all was ok) but hearing all this whilst having the agonising wait was just horrendous. I said during the scan I had overheard her saying she shouldn’t be scanning me and she said ‘well at your amount of weeks the midwives or GP can listen in to the heartbeat, it could have saved you waiting’. I so wish I’d raised at the time the weight comment I’d heard too!
Anyway since then I have logged a complaint with the hospital and that department with the conversations I overheard. I probably am ‘chubby’ but do not think a health professional should be saying that in a room with an open door near the waiting area. Do you guys think I did right or am I overreacting??
I’m at the midwives for a check on Monday so I’ll ask them there if they could have acted sooner etc and their take on it etc. Second baby but this experience has set me off to a bad start to be honest.
P.s. thanks if you stuck this out until the end!!