Shared care - hospital midwife and local GP

[gatti]

Hi

I am first time mum to be (28 weeks) and it is all new to me.

I have a shared care and had my GP appointment at 24 wks in which the doctor kept on asking how can he help me. There is no guidance as to what he should be doing in my notes and I am simply lost (mostly for words).

I will have 2 more appointments with my GP (@ 32 and 34 wks) and simply don't know what he can help me with...? First time round he didn't even take my blood pressure or go through my notes...

Any idea how those appointments should look like?

Thank you in advance for your kind assistance!

Gatti

Hi,

My area has the shared care model too and my gp has always known what she's meant to do at the appointments! It's all the same basic stuff that the mw would do - wee check, blood pressure, check baby's heartbeat and measure bump. They should write all the results in your notes as the mw would. It's really strange your gp doesn't know, given that's the model where you are! It may be worth highlighting this with your mw.

Thanks LoopyLou!

I wish I asked this earlier. I had my mw appointment yesterday and should have mentioned that to her. DOH!

It is really bizarre... I will try a different doctor within my practice this time.

Shame, as I moved recently and I know that there was a doctor in my old Surgery who specialised in antenatal and postnatal care. =(

Loopy This is very useful. I have consultant care but they want me to have 'check ups' between (just to be careful) with my local GP/Nurse centre.
Will be good to have a list of things (I suspect they'll be 'ummm.... what should we do?' - they can be a bit like that!).