Postnatal visits - health visitor checks

[Onemama]

As I am classed as an ‘out of area’ patient at my birth hospital of choice and am seeing a community midwife at my local GP surgery where I live, what happens after baby is born when it comes to having health visitor checks / postnatal appointments? Who will carry these out and how do I go about arranging these? Will it be the hospital that I gave birth out doing these even though I am not in their local area or would I need to contact my local community midwife number and have them come out? Any help would be appreciated as I’m getting myself all worked up about this haha!

[littleducks]

You should ask your midwife, but I expect it will be you are discharged to your local community services for follow-up.

Health visiting will be your local team as these are area based not linked to hospitals.

[Mumoftwo1312]

Ime you don't have to do any arranging, they'll call you. It'll probably be a mixture of home visits and community health centre

[Sammie1990]

Hi
i was the same as you. It got passed to the community team but I got missed and my baby nearly missed their heel prick test in the specified time because of it. I called the hospital I gave birth at who were amazing and got onto my community team for me as I was unable to reach anyone despite trying several numbers. I probably just had a bad experience but I would make sure you follow up with them if you don’t hear anything. It seems to be a bit of a messy system when out of area.