Anyone taken dc along to a booking-in appointment knowing that the hospital asks you not to?

[MuffinMclay]

Have mine tomorrow and am going to take ds (14 months) with me. Dh can't get time off work to look after him. What is the worst they can do? Could they send me away again?

I know I'm fretting about really trivial things, but my hormones are haywire at the moment.

I took my toddler
They didn't say not too
I'm sure you will be fine

I took mine, I didn't have anyone else to leave him with. They can express their preferences until thy're blue in the face, but they can't stop you taking your child with you. DS1 came to all my scans and we encountered varying levels of snottiness about it, but they didn't refuse to see me.

I'll just have to take a chance with it, and pray that he is a better mood than today (non-stop grumbling post MMR injection).

The woman before me when I was having my booking-in appointment with DS had her toddler with her. No one appeared to be having her bodily thrown off the premises as a result...

I don't see how they can stop you. After all if there is noone around to look after them then they don't have a choice. Sure they can state that they'd rather not have children there but they don't have any right to refuse to see you.
Please don't worry. Take your LO with you. They will be fine.
x

They try to discourage it because there's a lot to get done, but if you're in a bind they can't refuse to see you. Same with scans.

Throughout this pregnancy I have had only one appointment without my daughter there, and that was this morning. I'm 38+5.

Agnes

Well I took him and it was all rather fraught. The hospital has changed its policy, and now does allow dcs to come along (but not to scans), but only if they stay in pushchairs (only those of pushchair age, obviously). This did not go down well with ds who hates being confined to the pushchair. Not helped by the fact that the mw was running an hour late, so he was thoroughly fed up before we'd even gone in.

Why don't you call and ask if they can come to you? A community mw could come round. They did for me!

ah... a day too late... Sorry! Glad it went well.