An appreciation thread for all the health professionals working to help us make healthy babies

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Just feel like starting one up. I'm only 22 week yet I've been involved with so many so far and they've all been fantastic.

So thank you to - my wonderful community midwife who turned up at my home 10pm on a Friday night when my blood pressure dropped. My consultant who read through my entire (very thick file) and was very sympathetic and helpful when I saw him. The midwives and doctors on triage who have put up with my various worries and always acted very professionally and kindly towards me. The lovely doctor I saw on Wednesday who told me I was ALLOWED to worry about anything I liked The 3 fantastic sonographers who've been checking up on baby. The midwifery assistants, the people who take blood tests and then the people in the labs who analyse them, the lovely midwife who stopped in the corridor to give me a cuddle after I'd got some bad news from blood tests, the administrators who've managed to keep up with all my various appionments and my enormous complicated file.

I'm sure I've missed loads out but thank you all so much. The rate its going the list will be as long as my file by the time i deliver but thank you

I second this. The care i received in hospital this week was brilliant, the MWs were so busy, rushed off their feet, but they always made time to look after all the ladies on the ward, and you never felt like you were rushing them. And there were so many mums/m2bs with problems and issues, but we were all really well cared for.

I had a big blub in my bed (curtains around, so no one could see) and tried to do it quietly, but two MWs heard me and came to check I was ok, and make me feel a bit better.

I know not everyone has good experiences, but I cannot fault the care I received this week, from nurses, MWs, Drs, sonographers, consultants and even the cleaning, tea lady and dinner lady, they all looked after me really well, too.

Glad to be home, but bit of a shock because my DP is crap at looking after me and being sympathetic.

I really appreciate my Community Midwife, love her to pieces. She was the same CMW I had when pregnant with DS (now 2 years old) and she was the CMW who came to do house-visits for 10 days after he was born.

Also, this wonderful midwife noticed my 2nd degree tear wasn't healing right and really encouraged me to go seek further advice from Dr and to press for surgery to get it fixed. Won't put any scare stories on here, but just wanted to say she was a gem.

Recently I was hospitalised with hyperemesis and had a wonderful Gynae Nurse she was so helpful and kind and caught me when I fainted in the bathroom!

My own GP has been very good too and given good advice and guidance.

Good idea for a thread, OP! [busmile]

Well I've only met my midwife once so far, at my booking appointement, but when I mentioned I'm thinking of a Home-birth her face lit up like christmas and she said "I'd love to do that for you!"

A very positive start.

Oh and doctor I saw when I was suffering from Hyperemises said "You've just about had bloody enough of this haven't you?!"

It's so lovely to hear someone acknowledge it when you feel like crap.

My fetal medicine consultant who is wonderful with me even though I am a basket case
The midwives on MAC and the ward
My community midwife
My GP
All wonderful. The NHS is great.

Hear hear! We had an AMAZING sonographer at our 12 wk scan... I'd stupidly forgotten that the nuchal fold test was optional and when she asked if I was having it, said I think so. Cue a bit of a telling off for not having discussed it properly... but she went through all the options really thoroughly and all possible scenarios with us - we both knew that we'd keep a baby with amy problems, just hadn't had the conversation recently.
So anyway, after a bumpy start to our scan I was a bit wary of her... But as soon as she got our baby on the screen, she was almost as excited as we were, especially when it put it's thumb in it's mouth as that doesn't happen too often [bugrin]
She took 11 pictures and gave us them all!!! Just thought she was the perfect mix of professional and friendly if you know what I mean? Made the whole experience so much more special.

What a good thread! I've been blown away by the amazing care I've received since becoming pregnant - I will defend the NHS with even more vigour now! All the nurses and doctors are so patient, friendly and understanding, my wonderful midwife who is always rushed off her feet but cheerful, all the information and checks we get...it makes me grateful to be having my baby in a country where we have such good care, and makes me think about other women around the world who aren't so lucky.

So lovely to read threads like this. I'm a midwife and more often than not these days it's midwife bashing so to read something like this makes me glad I do my job

At 9 weeks pg, after a year of ttc, I've been so impressed by my GP (and other doctors at my practice), the nurses and specialists who helped with my fertility investigations, not to mention all the staff I have met with since becoming pregnant who have been kind, professional, compassionate and practical (enough to make me cry - not that that's hard at the moment). Long Live the NHS!

Lovely thread. I read about so many women receiving rubbish care. I feel very grateful that my experience has been so different.

All my community midwives are lovely. They're happy to be called/come to you whenever. I never feel rushed or stupid for asking questions & they all seem genuinely excited about the baby. Most importantly I trust them implicitly. They all have up to date evidence based knowledge, will say if they're not sure & research on my behalf! They really have been fab.

The hospital have been great too. The prematurity clinic were brilliant & accommodated my neurosis, did extra scans etc. The day assessment unit have been great when I've gone for monitoring & spent time reassuring me even though they were flat out busy in there.

I couldn't have asked for better care, it's been impeccable all the way though!