I'm 34 weeks pregnant and have recently moved to a new area so had to have another booking in appointment with the midwife in the new area. All was fine until she said she wanted to weigh me, and she calculated my BMI which came out as quite a lot higher than pre-pregnancy. I expected this, I am 34 weeks pregnant after all!
She then said that I was at high risk due to high BMI and would need to see a consultant and have an appointment with an anaesthetist to discuss options before the birth. I did ask her if that was right, because my weight pre-pregnancy was nothing to worry about and definitely not in the obese range, and I'm pretty sure that BMI isn't accurate in pregnancy, but she insisted that I would need this and proceeded to give me a load of leaflets about healthy eating.
My previous midwife had made no comment at all about my weight gain and hadn't even weighed me at any appointments after the initial one at 8 weeks or so. To be fair I could probably do with laying off the cake a bit, but surely she's going over the top a bit?
I'm now starting to worry about whether I'll be able to have the baby in the midwife led unit, use a birthing pool etc...it all just seems a bit weird. Could quite understand her approach if I weighed this much pre-pregnancy, but I've got 6 weeks before I'm due, they should expect people to be a bit heavier at this point shouldn't they?