Community Posts, Tips & Support on Pregnancy Care

Is anyone else feeling a bit frustrated with the maternity care to date? I’ve not seen my assigned midwife once so far due to sickness or annual leave, not sure if that is effecting the level of care I’m receiving or if it’s normal. My NHS trust (who I actually also work for!) uses the BadgerApp and it seems to have...

So I've been doing 7 days blood sugar monitoring. My fasting blood sugar readings gave been high but the past 2 days they have been absolutely fine. I've been told I'm being put on metformin because of the slightly raised fasting blood sugar results but it doesn't make any sense to me. The rest of the results are fi...

Did everyone do there birth plan at their 36 week midwife appointment? Even for 2nd pregnancy’s?

Does anyone know how long it takes from signing up to getting a midwife booking appointment? Haven’t heard anything yet after a few days

Does this look like a start of a vfl? (Pic in comments)

Husband said he can’t see another line but I swear I see something

Hi Ladies, I could use a sounding board... I got diagnosed late around 36 weeks after they did a random blood test at 35 weeks and found higher resting rate sugar levels. Likely because I had a meal or something before coming to the hospital. I just got the blood test kit last week and been measuring it 2hrs afte...

Please help, I don’t know if I’m just seeing things or if there’s a vvvfl there

Hi guys, I need some quick advice from people who might have experience already. They are wanting to either give me an induction or I go on insulin. I'm already 38 weeks and 4 days. I really want to wait till my due date, which is next sat, so not far away! But I'm feeling pressure to make some kind of decisio...

Newly pregnant and filled in the leicester midwife form the other day and haven’t received anything back yet? Is this the right form and if so how long do they take to get back to you

We went for our 32 week ultrasound and the baby is 5lbs 9oz, which is 97%. My original gestational diabetes test was negative and my blood pressure is great. I also started pregnancy at 200lbs and dipped to 180lbs in the first trimester and now I’m 190lbs due to weight training with a prenatal fitness trainer. No di...

What happens during a 12 week appointment with midwife? Just found out I’m pregnant again and completely forgot what happens 😂

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Has anybody who's already had a baby/babies before been given a 25 week midwife appt? I was under the impression we skip the 25 week one if it's not first pregnancy? But my midwife has booked me in again for 25 weeks. This is my second baby. No complications that I'm aware of.

First full day after my diabetes diagnosis and I already feel like I want to give up! I was just sent to collect a blood glucose kit from the hospital- no explanation on how to use it. After about 12 attempts (and a lot of stress and tears) I finally managed to get my reading only to realise I didn’t have the app o...

I’ll try to keep this brief. I went to an OBGYN office that has 7 doctors. Patient’s hopefully rotate through all of them until they deliver, so no matter what, they know their doctor. Well I got through 6 of them. On delivery day, doctor #7 was on call. I had never seen her, and long story short, she was unkind, di...

I’ve had 2 appointments so far with my midwife one in December at 9 weeks one in January at 16 weeks… since then I have nothing till 28 weeks (I am currently 23 weeks). I would prefer to get more appointments as feel other women get way more but I don’t get what the point is in going to see my midwife as I haven’t e...

Is it ok to fly at 28 wks +5

Hi today i had a message from my UC agent asking how many hours im working, hours and how many days a week my daughter in the childcare and the journey of me going to work and drop off and pick up. I find it weird. For context they havent reimburse my childcare cost for the month and i keep messaging them and thats ...

TW: After many losses, it’s impossible to get excited and not think the worst.