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little_miss_moneysaver_3

That's rubbish Ikkle
My local hospital tried to fob me off with a 12 week/nuchal scan at nearly 15 weeks as they had no appointments. However the midwife at the hospital was great and told the scanning dept (our baby scans are done in the Xray dept not in antenatal) that it was not my problem and they have to fit me in. Them not having appointments is no excuse for ladies to keep missing scans and havingscans later. I couldn't have a nuchal scan at that far gone.

Who rang you? I suspect it was a someone in the scanning dept and they are trying to fob you off. Either ring your midwife or ring them back and tell them it's unacceptable and your consultant was very specific with the scans he wants. If all else fails call the consultant's secretary. Trust me consultants do not like it when their instructions are not followed! I suspect you'll get your scan pretty quickly.

Have a lie down maybe to get rid of your headache and try and calm down. But it's so frustrating when you get told we'll do X, Y and Z and then it's not done. Like Fluffnutter said, it's not a favour it's your entitlement to get the correct scans at the correct time. Bigs hugs hun xxx

MissMonkeyMoo

LMM I'm always craving sugar in the evening! I manage to be (fairly) good during the day and then after dinner I cave in and have something naughty! I've just ordered some stuff off www.healthysupplies.co.uk as they do yummy treat-stuff which isbetter for you than other stuff. Might be worth a look? I can recommend the RAW chocolate brownie bars and also the nakd bars - very more-ish! Something else that I find works well for me is frozen cherries - I have to get the ones from Sainsburys as these are lovely and sweet, but I eat them frozen and they seem to satisy my sweet tooth at times! although I do admit that my favourite way to eat them is with alpro chocolate dessert over the top!

fluffnutter

ikkle87 wrote: »

Thanks hun I just couldn't help welling up when she said that, she said 'it's no real hardship because you've got your 28 week scan' if my OH had been here he would have spoke to them for me and stayed calm, I'm just emotional and watching soppy films before phone calls like that didn't help. I thought everyone got the 20 weeks scan too because of the certain checks they do on the heart etc. This is my first pregnancy (the last one I miscarried) so I'm new to it all and maybe a bit naive and accept what they say. It was a different woman than the woman I saw yesterday who booked my 28 week scan, she was lovely. I'm back at the hospital for my GTT tomorrow so I will go up and see them in person. It confused me massively because I would have thought wanting to do growth scans etc would mean the 20 week scan was even more important to check things.

Like sa-ra-ra-ra says, she's just the booking in person, and she's got her panties in a tangle because she's running out of slots and you might make her appointment book look untidy. She doesn't get to make clinical decisions.

Great idea to go and see them. Just say that your consultant has stipulated scans at 20 weeks (as per normal) then two further growth scans and you'd like to sort out when all three are scheduled.

little_miss_moneysaver_3

I thought everyone got the 20 weeks scan too because of the certain checks they do on the heart etc.

Some areas don't offer a 12 week scan (so I read anyway) so the 20 week scan is a national guideline (from National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence) so that care is standard across the country. It's like you say so they can look at the different structures and see everything is going as it should. These things always catch us off guard, normally at a teary time.

On a different note, I'm watching a maternoty programme where a woman is fully dilated, from 1-10cm in 45mins and rang hubby to say get here quick kinda thing and he asked if he time for a shower haha :rotfl:

turtlemoose

On a lighter note than the current flavour of the thread, I'd like to announce I'm rather pleased with my achievement of, at the grand ol bump-age of 37+6 (and therefore freakin massive!) I have, without assistance, just managed to cut my toenails and epilate my legs. I now feel (reasonably) presentable enough if bump decides to become baby instead soon!!

Triangle

Massive congratulations to Gtothec :happyhear

Hope you get scan sorted Ikkle - hi to everyone else, good to see you posting whowants2brich :hello:

I'm so shattered I could cry - been painting the hallway and stairs :eek: I did have some help from my lovely sister (again) so I was safe and stayed off the ladder but I am totally exhausted. However, the only other thing left on my 'big house jobs' list is cleaning out and washing the kitchen cupboards which I will do sometime next week

Quick question - I don't think I have had Braxton Hicks yet (34 and half weeks) Is this normal? How will know when I have one? Thanks ladies

Txx

turtlemoose

Grrr ok now I'm annoyed. As I moved house mid pregnancy, I got new docs/midwife etc as I moved over the border in to a new primary care trust. As I had already had my booking in, bloods, scans etc, I was not given the pile of leaflets etc that you normally get at the beginning when I met my current midwife. I saw a different midlife on Monday as the usual is on hol, who has, belatedly, told me about hypnobirthing, which there is a specialist in at my local hospital, and i really really want to do it. The course normally runs from wk30 to 34, one session a week but I didn't find out until I was 37+5. I've been chasing the hospital, as the midwife says even one session would be better than none....the hospital has just rung to say there are no sessions until the end of June.

I appreciate that they cannot create an appointment magically, but here was no hint of apology and no alternatives suggested.

I'm SO frustrated!!! If I had to tell a customer at work that the service they required would not be available, I would have had a list ready of "but there's xxx and yyyy and zzzz who you can try locally to see if you can get fitted in there" or similar. But no, idiotic NHS staff just don't give a damn about so-called "patient care".

It's great we have free medical treatment in this country, but it needs to be run like a business instead of the joke it is now! From my experience of my local hospital lately, they can't manage paperwork properly, they dont communicate between departments, they can't manage to keep to appointments schedules, they have zero compassion, and they spend far too much time sitting in earshot of patients chatting instead of actually dealing with said patients.


ARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!! I need chocolate........... :EasterBun

fluffnutter

Triangle wrote: »

Massive congratulations to Gtothec :happyhear

Hope you get scan sorted Ikkle - hi to everyone else, good to see you posting whowants2brich :hello:

I'm so shattered I could cry - been painting the hallway and stairs :eek: I did have some help from my lovely sister (again) so I was safe and stayed off the ladder but I am totally exhausted. However, the only other thing left on my 'big house jobs' list is cleaning out and washing the kitchen cupboards which I will do sometime next week

Quick question - I don't think I have had Braxton Hicks yet (34 and half weeks) Is this normal? How will know when I have one? Thanks ladies

Txx

You might have them towards the end. You might have them without realising. You might never get any.

I think I've had them, and my midwife agrees that it's likely. I feel squeezed for a short while, my belly goes hard, it starts off gently, builds, then reduces again. They're irregular and not painful. I might get a few in an hour, then none for days or weeks.

I know people get stronger sensations than these, to the point where they're often mistaken for labour pains. I think the key difference is that they don't tend to be regular, nor do they particularly increase over time.

emsbet

((hugs)) ikkle, you've had some great advice already but I wanted to add that I had seen posters and been told also that anomaly scans can't be carried out past 20+6 but the NHS website says that they usually them between 18 and 22+6 weeks not that they can't do them later. I had my first one at 20 weeks exactly and then my repeat one yesterday was at 22+6 and the sonographer had no trouble seeing the heart (not sure if other organs would be more difficult to see). Also when the sonographer told me to book my recall he said they usually leave it three weeks between them and I'm pretty sure most people at Bolton hospital are called initially nearer 20 weeks than 18.

xx

emsbet

Damn it! Just as I need to walk down to Tesco, it starts hailing! :mad: stupid weather!

xx