I'm fed up of trapsing around for ages for a long wait followed by a 3min appointment. The average appointment involves 45 min there and back, 20 min wait after appointment time and 3 mins of a rushed midwife who doesn't listen to a word. Moans:
-I have bloods taken, and never get results whoever I ask as 'I'm sure you'd be contacted if there was a problem'-well frankly it's just as likely they're lost seeing that's what they'd done consistently with everything else!
-I have notes like 'discussion had about vitamin k' or 'discussion about birth plan' put in my notes, well I certainly wasn't present in those discussions.
-Any question is answered with 'it's in the booklet/ leaflet I gave you'-no you gave me nothing, but I guess I'll google the booklet like everything else.
-I was wondering today when they'd start measuring bump, was very surprised to check notes today and see measurements entered! Even in sessions where my bump hasn't even been felt, let alone measured.
-Other notes are entered such as 'active baby', surely that's soemthing to ask me about as I', with it all the time!
-GP binned my urine container, midwife wouldn't give me a new one so no urine test done. Told to go back to GPs to get another if they binned it (yeah right I'll make that journey for that, it'll be a jam jar in future) BTW they are quite insistant on using the proper containers.
-I moved house halfway though pregnancy and keep getting moaned at that my notes are scribbled on/ not in order. Like I wrote them myself....
-It's so rushed I honestly don't even get eye contact, let alone a how do you feel. Timed today, 2min 40 secs. IS she going for a record? I sat in silent defeat today, not that it was noticed that I said nothing.
I can feel my baby moving and I know he's head down. The pharmacy next door do free blood pressure checks. I'm fed up with the midwife, it's not likely that anything would be pickd up in such half-arsed appointments. I feel like not going unless an issue arises as they only serve to tire me out and piss me off. I was going for a home birth but changed my mind as I dn't think I want this flappy and disorganised woman around when I'm in labour!