What happens at booking appt?

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Can anybody tell me what they do/ask at booking appt?

Forms to fill in, blood pressure, that kind of think. Nothing exciting.

As previous poster said really. Mine this time was over the phone and it's checking things like family medical history, have you any history of illnesses, all vaccinations up to date etc. X

Is it in person or over the phone?

I had an in person appointment where they took bloods, blood pressure, height & weight and asked some questions. Got to meet my midwife as well.

Then a few hours later I had my booking in appointment over the phone with my midwife. She asked loads of questions such as family medical history (mine and partners) as well as my own medical history and current health questions.

Nothing to worry about ☺️

Its a face to face appt at my gp, is it normal for you to not be seen till your 10 weeks or is that just because of covid?

I was about 8 weeks when I had mine so it doesn't seem that different.

They took my height, weight, asked lots of questions about health and some about partner.

Also took blood and gave urine sample.

I got a folder which you've to take to all future appointments. Also lots of booklets and a big book about pregnancy.

They sent me home to do more questions by phone due to covid.

*Forgot to mention that I also signed something to be sent a little certificate for free dental care.

*Also they brought up the possibility of down syndrome and asked me if I wanted to have tests for all the things they can check for.

*Signed some paper work.

10 weeks is fine. Top end of what would be aimed for but fine.

Different trusts do things differently, especially with covid so nobody can be certain but ultimately you will need screening bloods, blood pressure, height and weight and full medical history and to discuss screening options for Downs, Edwards and Pataus. Some do this at a booking appointment, some just do a quick face to face for your bloods etc and follow up with a telephone call for your history and some do bloods etc at your scan. But you should come away from your appointment with an understanding of what happens next and you should get a scan around 12-13 weeks. By the time you've had that scan all the things I've listed should have happened.

I think it depends on where you live and how your midwives work.

Where I work we do 2 appointments. The '1st contact' is face to face at the children's centre or GP. We do bloods, urine, height, weight and BP and set up your notes. You then have a phone appointment for your 'booking' which takes about an hour where we go through your medical history.

It was the same pre-Covid except the 'booking' was done in your home.

We usually see our 1st contacts between 8-10 weeks and aim to have the booking done before the dating scan.

I wasn't even allowed to ring to arrange an appointment till 8 weeks to be "seen" (phone appt) at 10 weeks, so I'd say that's a pretty typical experience. You are very much left to your own devices at first

Ok thanks ladies, on my letter it says the appointment will take between 1-2 hours and that i would get the flu jag at this appointment aswell, i just wondered what else they done ect thankyou for the insight it seems its different everywhere