Community Midwife

[newmumtobe66]

Hiya.

FTM so need advice. I am having my baby in a hospital about 40 minutes from my house so we are not in the local community to the hospital. How do we arrange a community midwife? Do they come before or after the baby is born? How will it work if the hospital is not in our local community? I am feeling really confused. Hope you can help!

You don’t have to do anything. The hospital will discharge you to your local community team. If nobody calls or visits the day after you come home, ring your hospital to make sure the paperwork hasn’t gone missing.

Do you see anyone before the birth? Thank you

Where do you see a midwife currently?

Have you had your booking in appointment yet? I am giving birth in a different trust to the one I live in too.
I have all my midwife appointments with the local community midwife team (not always same person) but then have my scans and consultant appts at the hospital where I will give birth.

Oh that’s interesting. I have had all my care and scans at my hospital but nothing with community midwife?

That’s quite unusual @newmumtobe66 are you under private care or seeing a consultant frequently?

I am under NHS care

Not sure how it works in other areas but my GP Receptionists booked me in for an appointment with the community Midwife. I didn’t get contacted about one, I had to call in and request it for the 16 week appointment.

I gave birth at a hospital that wasn’t my local and had all midwife appts at the hospital. Didn’t have any involvement from the community midwives until after baby was born (and needed weighing regularly).

This happened to my friend, she has to pick between two hospitals both of which were 40 minutes away. So she picked one hospital and then became under that "catchment area" so the hospital sends the community midwives out. Usually you would see a community midwife at either the hospital or centre nearby, currently none of us are seeing a community midwife though. It's worth chasing up, you should be given the phone number of your midwife at the 12 week scan who will be looking after you in your area x

Thank you so much