Community Posts, Tips & Support on Pregnancy Care

Hey ladies! I have this appointment on my Badger’s app for week 28 without much details. This is not my GP surgery nor the hospital I’m registered with. Has anyone had a similar appointment or may know what this clinic is, please?

I have just been diagnosed with GD yesterday. I have been in bits about it and scared. I know its not my fault etc it's hormones but I can't help but feel awful and scared for my baby and me. I am yet to hear from my GD midwife and I have an appointment in a week to get a scan and speak to a consultant. Can anyon...

Hello Ladies , I have been missing most of my hospital appointments because I know I won’t get paid at work for any antenatal appointments I attend and I do have bills to pay. So I bumped on this flier and number 1 point says it’s one’s right to get paid for any antenatal appointments. Please what is your opinion o...

I’m 10 weeks pregnant and I still haven’t spoken to / met my midwife yet. Our booking appointment was so awkward because it was someone we knew, I think she felt super awkward and just rushed through it, she definitely missed out a lot. Then our dating scan was rushed because the lady was late from her meeting and e...

When did everyone get their 16 week appointment with their midwife?

How much do your little ones drink? My daughter has already drunk 420ml of her juice bottle already this morning by 8am. She just drinks so much! My doctor has put her in for a blood test today to check she’s not diabetic. As my dad is type 1! Has anyone else had anything similar?

Hi everyone! This is my first pregnancy so I have no idea what I need to do. Do I just call my doctors and ask to be referred to the midwife? Or is there another way of doing this? Thank you 🥰

Has anyone else done this? I'm being induced due to gestational diabetes and baby needs to come at 38 weeks due to my sugar levels...however I have a toddler and our childcare isn't going to be in the country so dad will be staying at home... I'm not exactly scared to go alone but more curious if anyone else has bee...

Can I just turn up to singleton if my midwife AND on call team aren’t answering the phone? I’ve been in absolute agony and not been able to Contact anyone or fancy taking a diagnosis off my gp who googled symptoms with me sat next to her 🥲

I'm 30 weeks and have an anaesthetist appointment later this week. I can't remember for the life of me what my midwife said about this app and if I needed to do any prep in advance/ know what pain relief I'd be willing to accept. Do I need to know this now?

I’m not trying not to get my hopes up but secretly hoping it is but can you see a line or is it just me. I’m currently 9dpo so still early days for checking, I was just being super impatience

10dpo and saw this shadow come up at around 30sec into the test!

Does anyone have any personal experience with clary sage essential oil in pregnancy? Google makes it sound really scary, I've been burning it on my electric diffuser since last night and I'd like to start putting some on my tummy. I'm being induced at 39 weeks on Thursday.

So my midwife has cancelled 5 appointments in the time I have been pregnant. Today really took wee wee though as walked up to hospital to discover it was cancelled....ask she's sick (again.) Claimed they called and left voice mail, none there. Claimed they text bur no text either. At what point is it acceptable to l...

Possibly 12dpo can anyone see anything please

A few questions here- back story I had a terrible first time birth in a hospital and hated it I birthed my son at 34 wks I had no skin to skin with him they moved him to nicu immediately and I wasn’t able to try to latch him onto me so my point is I want to do things differently with any future births. My husband is...

So I’m coming up to 30 weeks this week, I’ve noticed the last 2 weeks or so my hands and feet, mainly my feet are swelling quite a lot, I work 12hr shits and am constantly on my feet, know it’s not ideal .. I’ve been trying to monitor my blood pressure but unsure on what would be classed as a high reading .. I’ve ch...

Hey all- what are we doing to make sure we’re staying on the course for the GD test? I’m trying to eat as normally as possible but with my last pregnancy, I ended up eating a little bit of higher protein for like a month leading up to getting the test. Either way, people said I’d be fine(I was😅). But I just wanted…

Im 25 weeks now, and the first & last time I had an appointment with a community midwife was at 16 weeks (apart from my initial booking appt). Is this normal? With my first I felt like I was going to see a midwife every few weeks. Feel so confused. My next one is at 28 weeks pregnant.

I’ve just had my 20 week scan and i’m booked in for gestational diabetes test as baby’s tummy is measuring large. Has anyone has the same but it was fine and you didn’t have GD? This pregnancy i’ve really been good with my diet, lots of walking and exercise. Feel bit gutted that i’ve tried so hard to be good and hea...