Healthcare while pregnant

[Bluegem01]

So first of all, all my personal details are registered at my parent’s address but for the past 5 years I live in a house with my partner. Everything is registered at my parent’s address such as my gp etc.

The thing is I don’t live far away but I live in another town. I mentioned this to my nurse at my gp surgery when I got my flu jab and said that I didn’t want to have to change surgeries etc. especially with baby on the way. She said to just register the baby at my surgery and not to worry. I am quite lucky as the hospital I have planned to give birth at is literally 5-10 mins down the road to where I live rather than my parent’s house where it is over a good 30 mins drive.

I haven’t told my midwife that I live at another address to what is on my paperwork but she has already mentioned she will visit when the baby comes.
I received a letter inviting me to a virtual health visitor appointment and glad it’s virtual but at the same time it’s not joined with the hospital I am planning to give birth at but one that's near my parent's address and there is no reason I would go there and I also wouldn't choose to.

Has anyone been in this situation before and if so, what did you do? I don’t want to have to change my surgery as I have been with them since birth and plus I don’t know what the surgeries/doctors are like where I live. It seems to be a lot of hassle. Then again I know the midwife will be visiting after birth and I was just going to say I had moved as it’s so close to the hospital I plan to give birth in.

You need to update your address. You can probably still stay at the surgery.

I officially didn't move in with my partner until the day i left hospital with baby. I told them at hospital which was in another LA and wasn't a problem. Changed address with midwife over the phone. Community midwife & HV both visited my new home outside their LA with no problem. I would look at changing your gp though as you will be in and out of there a few times for it to start becoming an inconvenience.

You need to change it.
I moved when 36 weeks pregnant with our eldest, less than 4 miles away. My midwife told me I had to change GP's and get registered with the local midwife team for that area. I stayed with the same hospital. I changed surgeries again when we bought a house a few miles away from there too, though I was glad to see the back of the last GP's after how they handled a miscarriage.

I’ve lived in the next town to my mums for 8 years and my details were still for her address at the gps as like you I didn’t want to change and tbh I rarely go to the doctors at all if I can help it but obvs needed to go for my booking appointment, i had put my current address not mums on my self referral booking form for the midwife and at the booking appointment I told the midwife this and she said not to bother changing it straight away as it may delay Letters for scans if I was happy for these letters to go to my mums, dating scan letter ended up coming here and my blood results after the quad test ended up going to my mums so not sure whether they just have both addresses down now, but in my paperwork I have to take to hospital appointments , the midwife had written my mums address down on it, but the stickers the hospital print off have mine on, no one has mentioned it’s a problem and the doctors surgery haven’t told me to move to a different one that’s closer to me yet, also midwife hasn’t mentioned anything about visiting my home after baby is here either lol can’t see it being a problem

I ended up telling my midwife at my appointment this week and mentioned that I wouldn't be changing surgeries etc. She was absolutely fine so worrying for nothing!

When I went to register my first pregnancy, they told me the midwife did home visits, so I went to update my address and they got really sh*tty with me, told me I was out of catchment and I'd need a new doctors.
To be honest, I was quite offended - but organised to move drs to one close to my new house and I'm so glad I did. They are lovely, the team are great and I don't have to panic that the midwife is going to try and go to my parents house rather than mine! ;-)

You can still choose what hospital you go to - we live on the edge of two trusts, with each one having a major hospital 25-ish minutes away. So quite a lot of my friends have preferred to go to the one that wasn't in our trust. It's fine - the midwives just fill a form in.

Personally, unless you've had complications that you feel your currenty midwife understands more than anyone else, I would just change over :-)