just one midwife??

[star6]

Everyone on here seems to be saying "my midwife". I'm in Kingston-upon-thames and I have seen a different midwife every single time I visit the hospital. I see the same gp... but different midwives every time. I asked if I could just see a few once my pregnancy progresses (currently 21 weeks) so that I could be comfortable when it came time for the birth (a lot of fear/anxiety there...) but they said that's not how it works....
Do I need to be more adamant or is this truly how the system works?

I have a community MW who I have seein in pregnancy, don't know any at the hospital.

what's that? How do you get a community midwife?

I see the same midwife every time - she is the community midwife at the GP's surgery. I've only been to the hospital for my ultrasound scans.
When I go to the MW-led unit to give birth though, I will get the luck of the draw - I probably won't have ever met her.

There are 4 in our area, one for each practice, if you have a home birth then they do that.

Ok... that makes sense!! Thank you! So, when you go for antenatal appointments... you don't see your gp... you see your midwife? Is that how it works?

I haven't seen GP at all in this pregnancy and only once on first antenatal visit in first one.

Hi Star6, my GP surgery has an ante-natal clinic, so has a community midwife there. I met her twice. When she introduced herself at that first session as MY community midwife, i assumed that I'd see her the whole way thru.
I must have seen about 7 different midwives, and when I got to the hospital on the actual day, and the few days I was there, didn't see any of the ones I'd previously seen. Not even at the home visits.
Anyway, my point is, they are all professionals and all know the same stuff, so try to relax and discuss all you bits with any of them, and by the time your little one wants to arrive you won't give a hoot who's there and who isn't. Infact you prob won't even remember.
Because babies arrival is quite unpredicted I was told it's a case of whoever can get to the clinic. Don't worry though, it'll all be fine. X