Had my Midwife Appointment today!!

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Well I had my first midwife appointment this morning. BP was 100/65 which is low for me as am normally 120/80 but I suppose its probably to do with the heat. It was so hot in her room too!! Urine normal.

The midwife seemed nice enough and we chatted whilst she took my medical history. She gave me a bounty pack too so will nip over to Asda later this week to pick it up and see what goodies are in it.

She asked where I would like to have the baby and I said I was considering a homebirth but my husband is not at all keen on the idea. She suggested I have baby in hospital due to me having big babies and I sort of agreed but if later scans show this baby is not any bigger than Josh and everything goes ok with the pregnancy then I think I will fight for my homebirth as long as I didn't go to far overdue as obviously that gives the baby time to put on more weight. I do have quite straight forward labours and fast too - Josh's was 6 hours start to finish including 2 hours of pushing and I was induced with Ellie which was 4 hours including about 30 seconds of pushing as she literally shot out - well she was a full 1 lb lighter than Josh lol!!

She took my bloods and is sending of a form for me to have a dating scan between 11 and 14 weeks so should be in the next 1-4 weeks. She has also referred me to see the consultant after I've had my scan and has put a ?pph (post partum haemorrage) after I had Josh as I ended up having 2 units of blood after collapsing 4 hours after he was born!!

I have to have a Glucose Tolerance Test at 28 weeks too due to me having big babies. I had this with Ellie and it was ok.

I am seeing the midwife again at 16 weeks and will the blood tests for down syndrome and spina bifida. If it came back high risk we would still carry on with the pregnancy as this baby is already so wanted but we would be able to prepare ourselves to deal with any problems they may have at least.

I have just been reading my antenatal notes and I never realised whilst I was with the midwife but there are quite a few errors in them.

The Midwife asked me my height and weight so told her and she has me down as 124cm height and 266kg weight so I am a dwarf the size of a bus according to that lol!! I am actually 168cm and I am not disclosing my weight but it is obviously absolutely no way in a million years anywhere near that figure lol!!

Also she has put that Josh weighed 7.45 kg when he was born!! I know he was big 10lb 7 (4.75kg) but I don't think even I could manage a baby that big lol!!

It's no wonder she ticked consultant led on my notes!! Will be getting that changed asap!! I was midwife led with Ellie with referals to the consultant for growth scans towards the end but that was all.

One thing that has annoyed me is she ticked the box which asks if this baby was conceived with a new partner and she ticked yes but it isn't. Josh & Ellie are both dh's as is the baby. I am a bit upset about that and will be making sure that's changed!!

I don't know if what she has written on my notes are the same as what she has on her notes as she was rushing to write everything down so it was hard to keep track what she was writing.

Oh well. She seemed very nice and approachable so am sure she will be ok about changing them. I think she must be even dippier than me lol!!