6 Week Postnatal Check-up - What Happened At Yours?

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I've just come back from my 6 week postnatal check up and am feeling a bit like a div. My GP seemed very disinterested and I left feeling like I've wasted her time (even though there's one or two issues I wanted to discuss). What happened at yours? Did you have one? Is there a normal set of things that ought be asked/checked?

at mine they took my blood pressure, felt my tummy asked if needed a check down below but i hadnt torn or anything so said no.

talked about contraception, asked if i was still bfeeding.

oh and she weighed me and helpfully told me i still had baby weight to lose (about a stone) which i knew anyway! and she was really snooty about it, wouldnt have minded but she was more than several stone overweight herself!

You sounded like you had more of a check up than me! No BP checked, no tummy felt - she did have a nosey at my bits as I'd had a bad tear but that was it. Nothing about my mental state (I've been a bit neurotic as DD got admitted into hosp at 3 weeks with an infection), nothing about my BF, and she didn't weigh me, didn't ask about contraception and was generally a bit crap. I feel like I've been hard done to! Ooh, she did tell me to do my pelvic floor as things looked 'a bit loose'! Just to cheer me up!

I didn't get one.

I had a smear test at mine (I think it was actually at 10 weeks) but that's cos I asked for it as it was overdue anyway. Other than that, it was completely pointless - I got asked in a tone that implied complete disinterest (and came from behind a screen whilst i was putting my trousers back on!!!) "Any problems down below?" and "How are you finding it?" and that was it! I knew it would be a waste of time as a post natal appointment only, so that's why I booked the smear at the same time.

First time it went like this:

How are you feeling?
Ok thanks
How's the baby?
Oh he's fab, thanks
I don't want to patronise you but I am supposed to talk to you about contraception.
Consider me spoken to, cheers.

Declined with the subsequent ones - receptionist said they were obliged to offer an appointment.

Asked me if I was okay - I said I was except that I had a LOT of internal scarring from forceps, and I asked for some advice as it was VERY painful to stand for more than a minute. She advised me to "massage it", then asked me if I wanted a coil fitted. I informed her that contraception was the least of my worries, as if ex ever brought his penis within 3ft of me I would have to slay him.

Mine felt pretty pointless, but I was seeing a gynae for badly infected open tears by then, so maybe GP thought there was no need to talk about anything much. Did have the contraception talk though - I raised my eyebrows and gave a hollow laugh. Actually maybe it was more hysterical than hollow. And that was that. She examined DD's hips and gave her the once over.