"Pregnancy"

My allocated midwife went off on long term leave. I was advised that they would try to have another midwife see me consistently but this never happened. Rather than being re-allocated I saw a different midwife each time. I had to chase up some appointments rather than a midwife arranging them routinely. I felt I had to re-tell everything each time. I felt that things were missed and/ or never followed up such as bad pelvic pain being put down to baby sitting on a nerve. This meant that I remained in significant pain and didn’t get the help I needed.

I felt like an inconvenience rather than cared for as it was often left to last minute as to which midwife would see me. I wasn’t able to build up a rapport. I had complications (too much fluid and breech baby) and was left feeling quite anxious and this contributed to me having a very negative view of my pregnancy experience. The individual midwives themselves were pleasant but I felt they didn’t have time to read up on my notes or give me time as I was an “extra” to them that day. Information on my notes was incomplete as they didn’t get around to inputting it on the system.