Following on from my 'I lost it...' thread, what CAN a consultant help you with or tell you that a midwife can't?

[Enid]

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imo they can help you if you have complications, if you dont they are a waste of space

most of the time the midwives tell them what to do anyway

ESPECIALLY sho's - midwives have more experience and common sense (most of the time)

but im biased

yep thats what i thought. They swan around dont they?

they will leave the room telling you they want to consult a colleague - this invariably a midwife

never saw a consultant in 2 pg's thank god

lol

bloody hell it irritates me

and they are men

sorry but what do they know

I am the opposite I am 'high risk' and my midwife will not tell me anything or answer any questions and refers me to the Consultant. It is so frustrating that she will not even discuss most things with me. I am lucky my consultant is great and does answer any questions I ask. He is discussing my birth with me in a much more factual way than any midwife would as he will be doing the C section and other surgery.

But..... I think I am the exception to the rule i prefer my consultant to the midwife. Good luck in getting the care you want.

It's just a 2nd opinion, from someone trained to look at you &your situation differently. It may be a rubbish 2nd opinion, of course.

Yes

We know nothing, we do nothing and we help no one.

In fact, I'll stay home from now on and leave midwives to do it all.

I was going to post are you hormonal when you started this thread but was scared.

who needs a 2nd opinion on a completely healthy pg though? (you do have a completely healthy pg dont you enid? or have i missed something?)

shouldnt that be Mrwhydoibother?

(why is that btw?)

I guess when the s**t hits the fan they can do a cs for you...

(I've had two cs's and the second one was done by a woman and she stitched me so much more nicely!)

I avoided them until the aforementioned dung-meeting-airconditioning incident. Best policy I think. They just annoy and scare you.

looks that way so far oo (fingers X'd)

am hormonal (obv) but also realising that i hate hospitals and think I have lots of unresolved 'issues' (snurk) about bad treatment in past.

No, I am not a surgeon

I am a medic

isnt it surgeons are called Mr and the rest Dr

the consultants at my hosptial are Mr so and so and Mr blah.

maybe it's just a 2nd opinion on the fact whether yours is a completly healthy pregnancy?

All I know is with my first baby, the 34 week scan said he was gonna be a whopper, even though I had a pretty small bump.

"You don't look that big because you're fit", said consultant 1.
"You don't look that big because you're tall", said consultant 2.
"The baby really doens't feel that big", said community MW, prodding me 2 weeks later.

No awards for guessing who was right, I would trust the MW to be most informed, too.

then they are consultant surgeons

they must be surgeons enid then, they must be planning a secret cs for you

or maybe they are porters

joke btw

I'm sure you do a great job when you are wanted or needed DrMissThing

i had a wonderful female consultant in my last pregnancy, she was soooo glamorous. but i'm high risk & never get to see a midwife...

lol naily like that film with Amanda donohoe

I wish the SHO had looked like max beesely

yes maybe glamourous female would be acceptable. they dont do glam in Dorchester though