Maternal medicine appointment

[Andersonx3]

Hi all, I'm 17+1 with my first and I have an ongoing yet undiagnosed back issue which has been narrowed down to either fibromyalgia or Ankylosing spondylitis. I have a maternal medicine appointment on Wednesday - I've no idea what to expect, this was never explained to me.

What are others experience with this appointment? What does it entail?

Thanks ladies

Anyone?

@Andersonx3 hello! I haven't got the same back problems that you do but I've been under the maternal medicine clinic for other things - as far as I've experienced a maternal medicine appt is an appt with a doctor as opposed to a midwife. They will come up with a plan for your care for the rest of your pregnancy whether that be further investigations or management of your conditions... I hope that helps x

@Emjm9 that's great - thank you! I was just so unsure of what to expect!

It will just mean you get to see a consultant (with a specialist midwife, in my experience) rather than the "standard" package. I was consultant led (maternal medicine) throughout pregnancy because I have epilepsy. It just meant that I had more appointments/scans and always saw the same person which was useful as I didn't have to spend the entire appointment giving background info unrelated to the pregnancy. At around 30 weeks they said I should also have appointments with the community midwife team to introduce myself too as before then I'd been going to the hospital for all of them.