Maternity mattters

Hello 👋🏼 I’m 4+5 and called my GP to find out the next step as I have never done this before. She said to sign up to maternity matters and they’ll make contact. It took me to “badger notes” and I signed up. I then got an email from a different email all together saying they’ll be in touch in 4 weeks! From peoples experience, how long did you wait for contact? What’s the next step? I hate not knowing what to do next! I’m taking vitamins, eating and drinking what I should and shouldn’t etc. when will my first scan be?

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Heyy! I self referred my self as soon as I found out 2 weeks ago and I’ve already had a phone call from a midwife where she booked my “booking in” bloods and appointment for 8 weeks and you’ll get a dating scan for 12 weeks also xx

Amazing! How long did it take for them to contact you?

within a couple days! I referred to Dorchester hospital so I’m not sure if it’s any longer if your doing Bournemouth but should be the same x

I self referred around 7 weeks and heard back when I was about 10 weeks for Bournemouth Hospital 😊

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