How long will first midwife appointment take?

[inmybelly]

Have tried contacting them but they're impossible to get hold of!

Just need to know how much time to book off work... What was your experience?

I would allow an hour. There is a lot of form filling and medical history questions to get through.

Bokk

Sorry booking appointment is usually 45m to 1hr. Lots of family history taken and questions about previous obstetric history (if any).
Allow 15 mins for them to run behind too.

My midwife came to my home and was 3 hours later than she said she'd be for my booking appointment. Hope that's really rare.

I've been told to allow up to 2 hours. It seems like a long time but with all the things they may have to go through with you, it's also reasonable.

mine was 10-15 minutes. I was given the forms to take home and fill in

Mine was half an hour but I had to wait 20 minutes. However, I'd already filled out all of the forms and filled my pots beforehand

About an hour for a booking in appointment, 10-20 minutes for the other ones.

Also just in case you were referring to annual leave when you said you needed to book time off work, you don't need to take it as leave as you're entitled to time off for antenatal appointments.

Mine was an hour but she was running really quite late, I can see how that would happen a lot for a midwife given the nature of her job. So I would allow for 2 hours just to be absolutely safe.

I would allow 2 hours at least. One for the appointment, one for late running (particularly if they are coming to you. Community midwifes visiting new mums tend to run later than clinics!).

And yes, I assume you just mean booking time for how long work should expect you to be gone, not holiday time. You are entitled to paid time off.

Yes a woman is entitled to time off but might choose to use annual leave if they are not ready to tell yet.

Mine was just over an hour and that included blood taking.

Mine took about an hour, but was running about 15 mins behind aswell x

Takes bloody ages! I had mine a couple of weeks ago and was a good hour - I'd hoped it would be quicker second time around and that we could skip some bits, but apparently that isn't allowed!

Mine was one and a half hours long

Thanks everyone!

Well, waiting will be at least 45 minutes and the appointment 5 to 7 minutes.
Just my experience...

And make sure that either your partner is there or you have all the info on medical issues from his side of the family.

I had mine yesterday. Went in 15mins later than appt time. Midwife said it would take an hour and it did!

Had mine this week. It was an hour.

My letter says 1.5 hours.