Midwifery Care

[Bluelady-sing]

What was the midwifery care like?

Did they take into consideration your difficult journey

[wildchild1989]

they have to take into consideration anyone's difficult journey... It's part of there job to look after you x

[Hidden]

No my midwife didn’t seem to care at all. I was treated as a normal pregnancy and she didn’t seem to understand my anxieties

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I agree completely with this, my nurses & drs were much more supportive than the midwife was knew the journey we had been through even the receptionists were over joyed for us & made a fuss of our baby. The midwife just treated me like a regular pregnant lady it’s not their fault they are over loaded major cut backs in nhs & it shows( they had 3 midwives to just 1.) My assigned midwife didn’t even visit my baby it was which ever midwife was on duty - whereas when I had my first born it was my assigned midwife who did all the visits & was upset she didn’t deliver my baby as she was on holiday. xxx

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It’s a real shame. I saw my midwife the whole time except delivery and not once did she show any compassion about our journey. I didn’t have a good feel from her anyway as at the first appointment she argued about everything my fertility clinic had said like due date and me being on metformin the whole pregnancy so didn’t feel very connected to her like some people do with their midwives x

[Kempton]

I don't think I got any particular treatment because it was an ivf pregnancy. A lot of the time it was very businesslike, however the care was very good at the trust and I had a very positive experience. Nothing to do with the ivf but purely because it was a great hospital trust.

I've since moved and I got pregnant naturally. At my my current hospital I have to say I've not been as impressed with the care. If it wasn't my second pregnancy I wouldn't know what I was missing. But I'm feeling like just another number.

I think care just varies from trust to trust.

[Katgr]

No special treatment despite being an ivf patient and with a previous late miscarriage (19 wks). I saw so many different midwives, too. All over the place really.. No consistency. At the end, my parents treated me to a private birth.. best thing I did.

[Lizzielizzielizzie]

No they don’t really.