Consultant led care?!

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Afternoon ladies hope your all doing well!!
I’m currently 29+1 and have had a normal healthy pregnancy so far, bloods have come back good, blood pressure is fine, baby’s heart beat is strong and a healthy number of movements and my bmi is healthy so why would my midwife request me to be consultant led now?
I had a missed call from the hospital this morning to say I missed an appointment with the consultant yesterday( which I knew nothing about) I asked what it was for and she said my midwife requested me to be consultant led?
I can’t get hold of my midwife to ask her and the woman on the phone couldn’t really understand why so it’s all a bit strange? Just wondered if anyone had the same thing happen?? X

I can only offer the reasons I had consultant led care but it might help! I had IVF with baby one and I was 36 so geriatric too (charming description), pregnancy two was FET and I was 41. For pregnancy one it was because I was considered high risk due to the IVF and pregnancy two because of my age. Don't worry though in reality it was just a few more appointments for checks I still had a home birth with no. 2 albeit against my consultants wishes! Good luck!

Sounds like a mix-up if you never got any notification of your appointment. Usually they would send a letter or something. Maybe she's mixed up two patients and given them wrong details! See what she says when you talk to her

Thanks for replying ladies!!
I did call the hospital and they said they sent a letter to me (had my wrong address!!!) and the midwife at the hospital couldn’t understand why but did confirm it was for me as I asked whether there had been a mix up!
She said the only thing it could be is my past mental health issues I suffered with depression and anxiety a couple of years ago but haven’t had any relapses since so maybe it’s just for that?! Xx

Could be your age, how old are you?

I’m 27! Hopefully I hear from my midwife tomorrow, just a weird situation especially as it’s my first pregnancy and everything’s been really good so far! X

Could be for mental health reasons, I've been classed as high risk due to a previous episode of PND, this has resulted in extra midwife and health visitor appointments, and offered referals to maternal MH services if I need it.

@katmarie sorry to hear about your previous PND hun! I was thinking it could be for mental health reasons, I split with the dad at 20 weeks but surprisingly my mental health is probably the best it’s ever been considering what he put me through! X

I have anxiety and I'm consultant led for that reason x

I’m consultant led for a number of reasons, a couple of which I found quite surprising. I have anti-E and I had chickenpox while pregnant so I need extra monitoring for abnormalities. I understand those reasons and was expecting them.

But apparently now I’m consultant led because I have asthma
I also had to see a perinatal psychiatrist because I once experienced an isolated episode of psychosis due to the Mirena coil. I don’t have any current mental health problems so that seemed a bit excessive too.

I’d say it’s probably for the mental health issues

Do you have maternity notes in one of the blue hard copy folders?

In mine one of the forms my midwife filled in circled the reasons and then circled “consultant led” at the top of the page.

Not sure if they have anything similar if your notes are online though.

Thanks for your replies ladies! I’ve got an appointment to see a consultant on n the 4th but yeah I’m guessing it’s for my history with mental health!
Will find out on the 4th though I guess!