can you call a midwife at 8 in the evening?

[pixiepud]

I'm tempted to call but not sure you can this late ?

yes you can Pixie - there will be a midwife on call you can talk to.

I got told to call the maternity ward if after 5. May just be mine though.

Of course! They take it in turns to hold the 'on call' phone/ pager if you're on a specific teams list. Otherwise the delivery suite isopen 24hrs

thank you, i'm nervous for some reason, i hate bothering people

Depend what for surely, in labour or seriously concerned then yes to ask for a matb1 or to book an appontment no

its for the pain i had last night and the sickness

Yes you can, how are you feeling?

i'm still rather sickly lalabaloo, better than earlier. I rang the midwives (didn't speak to my midwife) she didnt seem to know much, wasn't really worried but still helpful and polite, said to ring the bigger hospital tomorrow if i'm still ropey as they'd know more. (we have a smaller hospital here for uncomplicated births etc and the bigger one in town for everything, they both kind of linked)

Don't ever worry about bothering people Pxie, as an ex-midwife I can tell you I never minded being called - I expected a call or two when holding the bleep - sometimes for labour and other times for pregancy issues such as you are describing. It was never an issue for me and I was happy to be called for advice etc.

I hope you did call and that everything was okay