Six Week Check- GP or hospital

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I'm a little confused.

I gave birth 3 weeks ago and had a 3c tear. The health visitor has said they will do a 6 week check for baby and then the GP and practice nurse will do checks and immunizations at 8 weeks. She also said the GP should do a 6 week check for me.

However when I rang the GP surgery they said they do an 8 week check, which doesn't sound quite right to me (GP surgery is good at not doing anything generally), but, I do have a hospital check at 6 weeks.
In my experience the hospital won't do what the GP does and vice versa, so, should I still have a 6 week check with the GP?

I still have some issues, but services are so disjointed and confusing, I'm not sure.
Any thoughts? thank you!

Sounds right to me. Baby has 6 week development check by Health Visitor. Mum only needs one postnatal check by GP, whether its done at 6 or 8 weeks is immaterial. In fact it makes more sense to do it at 8 weeks when baby has a check by the doctor before 1st immunisation.

The doctors check consists of asking how you feel in yourself, answering a quick PND checklist, a look down below if you want them to, thats about it.

And the nurse did all that anyway, don't actually remember the doctor having anything to do with it.

When I had DD (3), we had a joint check up at 6 weeks with a doctor, mainly for baby but we did talk about me. Then we saw a nurse at 8 weeks for imms. It was a small practice though, I live elsewhere now and I believe it is different here.

I received a letter asking me to make appointments for both.

The hospital check might be due to your tear- when I wad discharged the midwife had to double check that I didn't need a hospital follow up and that was after just a forceps/episiotomy.

I was expecting a 6 week double check for me and DS at GP, plus a 6-8 week check with health visitor, but received a letter the other day saying a triple whammy appt to cover baby check, my 6 week check and first immunisations. It's for 8 weeks.

I don't know about the hospital check but I don't think it's a problem if the gp check is 6 weeks or 8 weeks.
I imagine they do it at 8 weeks so that they can do the immunisations at the same time.

I would think the hospital check will be more focussed on the tear and any side effects/ how you are healing etc and whether you need further specialist follw-up. The GP check will be more general and probably cover contraception, mental health etc so do go to both.

Thank you!
My surgery doesn't book double appointments for check/immunisations etc as they are known to be a bit difficult but I will make an appointment after my hospital appointment for the GP for me and baby. I wish services weren't so disjointed!