When should you hear about your booking appointment?

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I’m currently 10 weeks and I still haven’t heard from my midwife about when my booking in appointment will be. Is this normal now?
This is baby number three for me and with my previous two the booking in appointment was always at around 8 weeks. I was told that the midwife would phone me to arrange it. Anyway, I phoned a couple of days off 9 weeks to be told the appointment will be between 10-11 weeks and they will phone me.
I don’t know what to do. Do I wait and see if she calls me in the next couple of days or do I phone her again? I’m not keen on the second option because she was a tad snippy on the phone last time.
What I’m mostly concerned about is having the appointment sprung on me! I’d like a bit of notice! Both my children have various appointments and a bit of notice would have been nice so that I could work around them.
I also can’t see me getting my twelve week scan at twelve weeks and obviously I really would like that reassurance.

Well I don't think you've got any choice but to ring them again? I don't think there's anything else you can do. Your request is totally reasonable.

They usually contact you within a couple of weeks of referral, I would give them a call to make sure you've not been missed. A late booking is not uncommon atm though.

I did self referral at 6wk, booking apps were at 8+4 bloods & 9+3 history.

I had a feeling it was going to come down to phoning her again. When I previously phoned her she didn’t even say when the appointment would be made, just that it’s between 10-11 weeks.

I don’t get the impression I’ve been forgotten about because she found me immediately on her books and told me how many weeks I was at the time. I have a feeling that she phones you with a couple of days notice and expects you to magically just be free.

I’m getting a bad feeling about all of this. When I registered the pregnancy I was told I would also be midwife lead. I’m not happy with this. My first pregnancy there was no water left when they eventually went. Second pregnancy I was consultant led and induced due to them discovering low waters. I also get precipitous labor and haemorrhaged last time. I knew Covid had changed things but I didn’t expect it to be quite this bad.

I’d give them a ring OP as (not to worry you!) I had been forgotten about. I had my over the phone appt but the midwife missed my bloods appt and therefore didn’t do the scan paperwork so I just got in before the cut off for combined screening. X