So er is this a typical EOU/IOU experience?

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Went for the first time with reduced fetal movement at 36 weeks.

7 hours later before I was finally ultrasound scanned and discharged. Because they had one midwife and one doctor on charge in the whole hospital.

Yes this would be typical in my trust especially at the weekend. Not the one midwife, there will have been more midwives in the hospital but one for that area maybe. The registrar could possibly be covering the whole of antenatal, postnatal, labour and the assessment units with a consultant at home on call.

I'm hoping you were put on a ctg monitor to check baby before the 7 hour wait for a scan?