Does anyone know when you have your first appointment with the midwife if its just you and the midwife

[lilangel101]

Hi

I was wondering if when you go for your first appointment with the midwife if its just you and the midwife or if its a group of people? Thanks

Mine was just a midwife and me

Usually just you and a midwife or two. Sometimes they have a student as well.

Just you and the midwife and a lot of tick-box questions to fill in..

Just me and the midwife.

Just us. (plus partner if they go, no need of rthem too though, it's bloody boring) And a truckload of forms!

Thanks everyone what normally happens on the first appointment?

midwife appts are almost always one-on-one (with maybe a student midwife chucked in). First meeting will mostly be taking medical history.

A student did my booking in appointment and filled all my forms in, they will check your height and weight and probably take bloods.

Tbh it's very boring, so don't get your hopes up! They'll ask you lots of questions about your medical health and social circumstances relevant to pregnancy, take blood tests, check your weight and height to work out your BMI and check your due date. Takes about 45 mins for a first timer. They'll give you a form for getting free prescriptions and tell you how your 12 week scan will be organised.
Write down any questions you have. You can take your partner if you want but most people don't.
Good luck with your pregnancy.

If your DP has medical history that could impact baby, it's worth taking him to explain it properly. They made me haul DP out to expound his genetic history, my gawd that was a kerfuffle

Thanks everyone for letting me know

I think it depends on where you live. I live in central London and my booking appointment for my first pregnancy was a group session for about 6 couples, run by a midwife and a student. The midwife gave a general talk about healthy eating etc (speaking to us as though we were 5 years old) and we were then taken off individually to do bloods and form-filling etc (supposely individually, but we were the last to be seen and were surprised that we were being seen in the same room as one of the other couples, whose slot had run over because they had some medical issues to discuss, which the midwife was perfectly happy to do in front of us). For my second pregnancy (same hospital), we had an individual appointment.
My sister, who lives in Birmingham, also had a group booking appointment 2 years ago.

Yep I was the same as Wank (there's a sentence I never thought I'd write ). My DP has bipolar so he had to give a lot f medical history I otherwise wouldn't have known about. Apart from that though it did seem to be a lot of 'no' answers.

What's the reason they usually take blood? I've ateady had
It taken at the gp

They screen for a whole load of things from anaemia, sickle cell, infectious diseases including HIV etc.
You may find this page helpful.

I didn't have bloods done til my 12 week scan. My first appointment though the MW came to my house for a cuppa and form filling. I'm in Cardiff