Another Q. This time about midwives...

Each MW does things slightly differently.

I was seeing my MW once a month. She did all those things and wrote them down.

Perhaps next time just ask if she can do these things for you.

i've been seeing mine every four weeks, and she has never weighed me. Last time we heard the baby's heartbeat and she said my tummy felt good for the stage of my pregnancy. she didn't seem to calculate the BPM but said it was about 155, and i suppose they hear so many they can make an educated guess.

She did take my blood pressure - i think this is something that they should do each time (mine has been low)

My MW always takes my BP but she has never weighed me. She only started measuring me when we went to f/n visits at 28 weeks.
I saw her once a month up until then and go to weekly visits at 36 weeks.

Usually they dont measure you until later on in pregnancy, my midwife only got the tape measure out at my last appointment when I was 31 weeks.
She has only weighed me twice, cos she can see Im not putting on too much weight and I havent lost any so all good.
She does write in my book though babys heartrate after she listens to it.
Each midwife is different, you should be seeing her once a month until you are 28 weeks, then ever two weeks until you are 35 weeks, then the last month its weekly, I have 2 more visits then Im down to weekly.

Edited by Sheza

Oh yeah and I have to bring ym pee with me and dip the little stick in it as soon as I get there. And she takes my BP, and feels my tummy to see where baby is.
**prays he is still LOA when I go on Tuesday!!!***

man my midwife was wicked i had to poas blood pussure and wight everytime now i think of it she was relly good

wow BP should be every time..i got BP every time and POAS and weighed in the beginning and until about 24 weeks.. and she felt my tummy every time and measured it from 20ish weeks..and listened to heartbeat everytime..i was monthly till 28 then fortnightly then 2x weekly due to complications..

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Hi Laurie

I'm seeing my midwife every 4 weeks at the moment.
She takes my blood pressure and we use the doppler to measure bubs heart rate.
She hasn't weighed me but thats because I told her what my starting weight was before pregnancy and what it is each visit. She is happy with this as this way we have a good way to judge how much weight i am putting on as we use only one set of scales.

I'm due to do my pee test at my next visit (21 weeks)and will move to fortnightly visits after 28 weeks.

I think Wellington has quite a big shortage of midwives at the moments so maybe that is why you are only seeing her every 6 weeks at the moment? Hopefully this will improve once you hit the 28 week mark.

Edited due to poor spelling today

Edited by KABJ99