quote:Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:quote:Originally posted by loislane:
I gave birth 7 months ago ended up in hospital at 35 weeks with pre eclampsia until babs came at 40 weeks by emergency c section.
EVERYTIME I had a check my urine & blood pressure was checked I had to have a morning sample with me at each check. It was at 35 week check it was so high I was hospitalised & it never went down until babs came.
Sounds weird to me
I think the problem is due to the fact that the maternity services here are all over the place because they closed the service at our local hospital because it wasn't too far to go to the nearest large town. But now they've turned that one into a midwife only unit. This means that I have to see a midwife team at my local surgery, physion at the local hospital, consultancy/tests at the hospital in Huddersfield and have the baby at Calderdale hospital with a different team altogether. There is no continuity so nobody knows what to do with me. I think a lot of it is down to NHS targets etc, everyone feels that it would be better if I was someone else's responsibilty so I'm just dropping through the system.
We're exactly the same - we have a midwife-led unit at Chippenham who then refer onto Bath but don't deal with Swindon because they're a different NHS trust - it's all a great big mess
I must admit, I added to the problems myself though as I insisted on a private MW because I had heard the local service is so bad (and I know a lot of people who have had babies locally!)