When do you usually get booking in appt?

[Superunknown1]

First pregnancy, hugely clueless! I called the hospital my GP referred me to today as I haven’t heard a thing, I’m not sure when to expect a letter for an appointment for booking in? The hospital said no letter had been sent out and to just hang tight and wait for a letter.

I am 9 weeks as of today if that helps. Overly worrying as don’t want to have done something wrong and missed the referral?! I realise I may just be being impatient, I need to know soon as possible really as I’m self employed and need to rearrange work around it 😅

Hi,
With my first I had my booking appointment around 10 weeks

Hope that helps

I had mine at 8 weeks, they booked me in the day after I self referred! However, lots of units are inundated at the moment so I think it's common to be a bit later. NHS website states first booking appointment is between 8-12 weeks. Hopefully you'll not have too long to wait.

Mine was at 10 weeks but I got the appointment when I called up and self referred at 6 weeks. I would be chasing now I think

10 weeks, chase your GP

I self referred at 5 weeks and have my booking appointment on Monday at 9 weeks

I self referred at 5 weeks and got the appointment few days later for about 7.5 weeks. Super efficient so far at my hospital but seems to change drastically across the board! I'd chase up as there's alot of stories on here of people missing the combined screening because they've gone over 14 weeks due to a late booking appointment. Not end of world as there are other tests you can do after but best to chase.

I had to ring my hospital of choice to self refer, I was nearly 5 weeks when I phoned & the same day they arranged an appointment for me for when I was 8 weeks. It must really depend on different trusts but I'd definitely chase up if I were you

Thank you all! I called yesterday and said to not expect the booking in appointment until 10-11 weeks so guessing I’ll get a letter and little notice! Just relieved the referral wasn’t lost. Thank you for the answers!! X

This is really stupid question but what do you do when you get a positive test? Get GP appointment? We live in the middle of a few hospitals can I chose?

It's really not a stupid question, it can vary depending where you live. In some places you ring your GP and they refer you but in dome places you self refer. Google self refer to midwives in your area to see if that comes up or call your GP surgery to ask if that doesn't help.

Resurrecting my own thread as I had a private scan Wednesday (couldn’t cope with the wait!) that dated me at 11 weeks tomorrow and still no contact. I’m chasing and getting nowhere but wondering if this is standard in case I’m worrying over nothing? 😳

@Superunknown1 are you still waiting for your booking appointment or your 12 week scan appointment? If the former that's taking she's and you've only got three weeks left to do an NIPT combined test for various syndromes, though there is another kind of test available afterwards. I'm surprised they haven't seen you yet as the baseline tests help inform your care, like urine glucose tests, blood pressure, family medical history etc. If I were you I'd chase and chase, I was seen at 7 ish weeks and got the appointment quickly after self referring so there's massive disparity between trusts clearly. Hope you get seen soon! X

My GP gave me a phone number for a midwife who no longer works for my local midwifery department, who said she would pass on my details but no call so I’m panicking a bit as all guidance says there are tests that need doing before 12 weeks and I’m horribly close to that now 🥲

@Imisscoffee2021 Thank you for the message! Yes still waiting on booking appointment, haven’t wanted to make a nuisance of myself but realising I maybe need to at this point! Thank you so much x

It's so delicate isn't it when chasing up something medical but honestly do chase, I'm 20+6 with an IVF baby, ended up going private which was lucky as about 4 months after applying for NHS IVF i got a call from them saying I hadn't attached our bank statements to the referral, I said I'm sure I did, the ones with proof of insert job here? And the woman on the phone went oh yes! I remember now you did because I thought oooh what a lovely place to work! So all those months because someone just forgot!? We weren't chasing luckily as had already started a private round then but if we weren't it would have been devastating to lose those months. Sometimes got to be persistent and swallow the discomfort :)

Email PALS at the hospital you want to give birth at.

@mummyh2016 have just done so, thank you I wouldn’t have thought of that x

That's okay! I had this as well, I emailed PALS and I had a call the same day to book my appointment so hopefully you'll hear back soon.