Had half an hour sitting doing bugger all in a darkened room earlier which gave my mind time to stress me...
I've been thinking about the birth again, now that Christmas is over it all feels a lot closer.
I just know that at some point medical professionals are going to start telling me that having twins means I am high risk and cannot do things the way I might want to.
But I have had less medical care through this pregnancy than through any other. Seriously, all the books, websites, everything tells he I should be having at least 4 weekly scans from 24/28 weeks, regular check ups etc. None of this is happening.
Here maternity care is shared between consultants, midwives and the GP.
I don't have a named midwife.
My consultant is lovely, (and acknowledged by everyone as the loveliest of the 4 - "Who's your consultant? Oh he's lovely") but he's the "normal pregnancy" guy. When I phoned his secretary to check whether I should be having extra appointments, she didn't know, when she asked him, he didn't either, so they checked with the guy who deals with all the mono amniotic twins (who did my nuchal scan) who said yes, I should be having growth scans etc. I was told I'd be contacted. But I haven't been, My next consultant appt is at 30 weeks - which is the normal pattern.
I just know that at some point medical professionals are going to start telling me that having twins means I am high risk and cannot do things the way I might want to.
But I have had less medical care through this pregnancy than through any other. Seriously, all the books, websites, everything tells he I should be having at least 4 weekly scans from 24/28 weeks, regular check ups etc. None of this is happening.
Here maternity care is shared between consultants, midwives and the GP.
I don't have a named midwife.
My consultant is lovely, (and acknowledged by everyone as the loveliest of the 4 - "Who's your consultant? Oh he's lovely") but he's the "normal pregnancy" guy. When I phoned his secretary to check whether I should be having extra appointments, she didn't know, when she asked him, he didn't either, so they checked with the guy who deals with all the mono amniotic twins (who did my nuchal scan) who said yes, I should be having growth scans etc. I was told I'd be contacted. But I haven't been, My next consultant appt is at 30 weeks - which is the normal pattern.
I have a GTT in just under 2 weeks and I'll try to raise some of this then but what I have basically had up to now is a lot of "Oh well there's no point measuring you {etc} because it's twins so the scans will answer that". WHAT SCANS???
And my notes are wrong. Not majorly as far as I know, but they have me down as a smoker - I have never smoked - which makes me wonder what else is wrong with them.
Argh!!!
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