Told midwife I had a criminal record now worried

[Mooninlibra]

Hi,

I recently had my first midwife appointment and one of the questions asked was if I had ever been involved with police/probatation. I told her that 8 years ago I was on probation for a year and had councilling because I got in a drunk fight and got charged with abh.

Will she think I am a safeguarding concern and refer me to social services? I wish I didn't tell her now as I can't stop worrying.

No your be fine

The midwife would not have batted an eyelid.

No, i really wouldn’t worry.

You were being honest, which is more than many others would be in that situation. You're fine.

There are probably 1 and a half midwives working when it should have been at least five, so no, she has her plate full enough to worry about this. Unless you have said that you have got in a drunk fight while 7 weeks pregnant, she shouldn't be concerned I the slightest.
And you have to forgive yourself! :)

Sorry, going against the grain here. This will be logged on the safeguarding database. I doubt they would follow it up with anything but it will be there for information.

What a strange question fora midwife to ask, is that standard practice in the UK?

Not that I’ve known in nearly 20 years as a midwife. We ask if ever any social services involvement which I’d say is more pertinent to safeguarding. But possibly different areas have different questions and I can see that maybe it covers safeguarding more thoroughly to ask that too. But I’d have thought that they’d only be interested in answers that could potentially demonstrate a risk to the child. So being a heroin dealer, previous convictions for child abuse, etc. I don’t think a drunk fight would be of interest unless you also said you were an alcoholic.