Moving house but not wanting to change midwives

[Elementarymydear21]

Hi All,

I'm 25 weeks pregnant and we are hoping to be moving on the 27th June. We are only moving a 10 minute drive from where we currently live, but it will be in another London Borough (Lewisham to Bromley). I know with the hospital you give birth in you have the right to choose, so I can stay at the hospital I am currently at. But do you have to move midwives etc. to your local NHS trust?

Currently I am under the consultant and pelvic health team at my current trust. Plus I have an upcoming appointment with a consultant midwife about my birth plan (following a difficult first birth). I am also under the cardiology team at the same hospital. Ideally I would like to stay with all of these current teams for ease until after I have given birth in September as I don't want to have to go through everything again from the beginning, but what I can't seem to get a straight answer for from anyone I have spoken to at the hospital is if I would have to move everything, other than where I give birth.

Just wondering if anyone has gone through a similar experience and what they had to do?

I live in Bromley and gave birth in Lewisham. My GP is Lewisham and the midwife team I saw was Lewisham too - as I understand the care before birth is based on the hospital trust where you're having the baby so that everything is joined up. However after giving birth I saw Bromley health visitors as they visit you at home so has to be based on your address! But you should be fine sticking with your current medical team

Also I had a really good experience giving birth in Lewisham hospital, the midwives were amazing!! Good luck

Amazing thank you! I really dont want to have to deal with the additional stress of swapping everything over. I had my first child at Lewisham so ideally would like to stick with it!

I had exactly this but a different part of the UK. We stayed with the same hospital and antenatal midwives, but then once we came home from hospital the midwives and health visiting team in our new area looked after us.