InThisTogether ·
27/07/2017 23:26
Hello all,
I am 34 years old and currently 21w+3 with our first baby. I have a question about the categories of 'high risk' and 'low risk' that my community midwife is using for me that I'm hoping some of you may have experienced.
Basically if I am classed as low risk i can go to the (wonderful, new, award winning) midwife-led birth centre attached to the hospital where I will give birth. If I am high risk then I must be consultant-led and on a ward in the hospital.
My b.m.i is high (as it has always been) which I am aware puts me into the high risk category. However it's my understanding that this is a risk because it increases my chance of gestational diabetes, pre-eclampsia etc. However I am, in my midwife's words, in "perfect health".
I don't smoke, didn't drink to excess, no drugs, normal blood pressure etc- apart from my b.m.i I am completely low risk.
So my question is, does my bmi in and of itself put me at high risk if everything else is normal? I really want to push for this birth in the birth centre, which I'll only be able to do if nearer the due date I am able to be "reclassified".
--It doesn't help that i really dislike my community midwife as she makes me feel so inferior and patronised-
--does anyone else have any experience or advice for me?
Thanks for reading!