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Midwife didn’t turn up!!!

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anxietyangel · 22/09/2025 12:10

Meant to have my booking appt this morning between 9-12 at my house, but the midwife hasn’t turned up and I’m 9+4 weeks. I thought they’re meant to see you before 10 weeks?
I’m a bit annoyed I waited in all morning, but I do understand she is probably very busy.
Will it be automatically rescheduled or do I need to do something? Thank you

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Bumdrops · 22/09/2025 14:24

BarkItOff · 22/09/2025 13:48

You’re aware that most children’s centres have closed down right?

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And community centres and church halls have to charge something to cover the costs opening -
and there is NO money to pay to rent a room !

Needmorelego · 22/09/2025 14:47

BarkItOff · 22/09/2025 13:48

You’re aware that most children’s centres have closed down right?

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There are still several around plus many places that have shared community spaces.
I was being a bit tongue in cheek about "Call the Midwife" but in the programme it seemed they used a variety of church halls and community centres.
"Children's Centres" hadn't been invented back then but community centres had and many still exist.

Needmorelego · 22/09/2025 14:47

Bumdrops · 22/09/2025 14:24

And community centres and church halls have to charge something to cover the costs opening -
and there is NO money to pay to rent a room !

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It's not a perfect solution obviously.
Just an idea.

starfishmummy · 22/09/2025 14:49

gamerchick · 22/09/2025 12:26

I'd it helps I've never known a HCP to be on time for a home visit. Not so bad when you're PP unless you're dying for a shower as you're probably not going out. But when you want to get on with your day and stuck in waiting mode it's a bit of a pain. It doesn't look like an easy job for them, going from place to place.

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Same here. We had a lot of home visits as ds is disabled. His nurse was always late. Once she was about 40 minutes early and I was out, I got back about 20 minutes before the apppintment an found a note she'd left. She later "tore a strip off me" as if I was a naughty schoolgirl as apparently I knew she was.sometimes early! She had never been early, ever, and was often hours late!

RabbitsEatPancakes · 22/09/2025 14:52

Home visit seems a nice idea. At least you've not been waiting hours on a plastic chair on a waiting room!

All it takes is one patient to have a small complication/ few extra questions or a new mum to have a meltdown/ baby to seem poorly and the midwives are behind schedule all day

Timeforabitofpeace · 22/09/2025 15:07

starfishmummy · 22/09/2025 14:49

Same here. We had a lot of home visits as ds is disabled. His nurse was always late. Once she was about 40 minutes early and I was out, I got back about 20 minutes before the apppintment an found a note she'd left. She later "tore a strip off me" as if I was a naughty schoolgirl as apparently I knew she was.sometimes early! She had never been early, ever, and was often hours late!

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That’s very unreasonable and I think you could have said so.

BarkItOff · 22/09/2025 15:15

slowraindrop · 22/09/2025 14:04

Well there clearly is money ringfenced for some tech stuff @barkitoff as otherwise things like the hospital appointments / results mobile apps wouldn’t exist.

Again, I agree that there are wider issues at play, but I don’t think it’s acceptable for the NHS to operate like this, and many clinicians I see have said the same.

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No one is saying it’s acceptable! It’s obviously not but it’s the way things are now. The NHS is broken.

LoftyRobin · 22/09/2025 18:40

Before funding got really bad and normalising pregnancy was still a great priority, you may be offered home visits if you are low risk from booking onwards. Partly to normalise home birth itself.

Some Trusts would even carry out initial labour assessments at home and then you decide if you want to stay home or go to the unit.

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