Consulant led care for no 3, whats the diff???

[TreeHuggerMum1]

Hi,

Will try and keep it short and sweet...

No. 1 was 10 days overdue and healthy (now aged 5)
No. 2 was emergency c sec at 34 weeks. SCBU etc... Probs started at 32 weeks with baby not developing, very high blood pressure, bump not growing and lots of others weird and wonderful things. He was 2 last month.

Just had my booking in app't with midwife today for baby no 3 and have been told because of numbers 2's complications I will be

1. treated as a first pregnancy and 2) consultant led and not midwife...

What are the main differences that I can expect??
Thanks

More scans and more hospital appointments rather than midwife ones.

i think not allowed to use birth centre is another one, i have been moved to consultant care and was told that

Mine is Consultant led due to previous EMCS. I am currently 21 weeks and haven't seen a community midwife since booking in at 8 weeks.
All my appointments have been hospital, upto now I have had one consultant appointment at 16 weeks, I have to see CMW at 25 weeks, then hospital midwife at 28 weeks. Booked in for scan at 32 weeks to placenta position at 20 week scan. Then another consultant appointment to discuss birthing options at 36 weeks.
There may be an extra consultant appointment added in with the scan depending on the findings.

After the 28 week appointment I am not sure what happens with midwife appointments as they are wanting to monitor growth as my 1st baby was small for gestational age.

So basically it means more appointments, and a few at the hospital.

Oh yes, no midwife led units, homebirths or waterbirths for me this time round.

I got different oinions off two consultants leading to a minor meltdown outside office. Following meltdown I have m'wife turning herself inside out to improve things. Elcs on Tuesday. :)
To be honest Id have rather done without them.

Nunnie - ditto.
Am 7 weeks but last baby was IUGR and incubators etc in SCBU, was only 3 lb, allowed to leave SCBU at 4 lb.
Nervous but hopeful.
Midwife wants to see me again at my health centre in 3 weeks and has asked me to continue to see her regularly so shes in the loop ( I live in a village so...) on top of the consultant appt's.
Not sure what to expect and abit apprehensive.

Violet - AH!!
Fingers crossed for us both then...

I am in a village, but the hospital keep telling me to cancel midwife appointments, definatly going to see her at 25 weeks irrelevant of what they say.
There reason is they do all the checks there and there is no need to see her, but my CMW is based at a different hospital because we fall between two and the doctors comes under one that is further away, so I haven't been to see my actual CMW yet, because booking in was done with hospital midwife. Very complicated.
I can see why your community midwife wasnts to be kept in the loop though.

IME it isn't anything to be apprehensive about. It is just standard midwife appointment then they call in registrar/consultant for a chat about previous history then they will explain everything well hopefully should.
Try not to worry (easier said than done I know). I do find the waiting gets rather annoying though, as my consultant does one morning a week and they are all crammed in then and there is frankly no rush to get through everyone, so do take a book ;)