How did you make your pregnancy 'official' with the doc?

[SneezySnatcher]

I'm feeling pretty frustrated today! This is DC2, so I'm not a novice but I'm sick of being passed around!

I'm anywhere from 5-6.5 weeks (irregular cycles) but I am guessing around fiveish. I thought I'd get my name down with a midwife as I'm a teacher and I thought if I did it now there'd be a better chance of my booking appt to fall in hols (it was 8 weeks with DD).

Last time I made a doc appt. Doc said I didn't really need to see him. HPT was proof enough so he didn't need to do a test. See receptionist to do a form. I was in about two minutes.

This time I called surgery and asked whet to do. They said to ring sure start. I rang sure start. They said ring docs! I called docs again. Different receptionist. She said ring sure start. I told her I had and they had referred me back to docs. She then said to bring a sample in. I told her last time the doc said there was no need to test if I'd had a positive at home (I am now over week late and have tested every day . She then agreed.

I am no further forward! It's quite funny I suppose but if it was my first time I'd be desperate to sort it!

It never ceases to amaze me how much of a shambles the NHS can be over something as simple and routine as pregnancy. How can it possibly be this confusing for so many of us?

The system is pretty where I live, and that's just the midwives rolling their eyes t how absurd the system they have to work within is. But at the very least with both of my pregnancies, I have called my surgery and been told to book an appointment with the midlife directly so there is consistency on that first appointment.

No consistency after that (on 2 pregnancies 10 months apart, MC for first one) but if in doubt, I tend to trust the word of my community MW as she seems the most on the ball. Unfortunately for various reasons I didn't have her for most of my early appointments so things were pretty hit and miss, but I seem to be back on an even keel now. Still lots of weird anomalies though - like I can't be visited at home because I live in Urmston and my surgery is Lostock and MWs are only allowed to do home visits in Stretford/Lostock. Dread to think what this means post-birth. If they thnk I'm trudging out in the rain and cold 2 days post-birth when getting dressed will still feel challenging I think they may be mistaken!