Anyone had their midwife changed without being informed?

I'm 28 weeks and have never met or spoke to my assigned midwife and I noticed on my online notes that I now have a totally different assigned midwife and have not been informed or anything of this change, no updated contact info or anything so I'm now left with no clue who to contact and seemingly no midwife care at all, not that I've had any my whole pregnancy, I've had one midwife appointment which was 10 minutes and with a randomly available midwife

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I’ve never seen the same midwife twice . I’ve never had a contact number for a specific midwife and any worries I get I have to call my hospital every time and go in . It’s so draining and frustrating xx

Can I just add last time I went for a check at the hospital , I leaked pink fluid and was having weird green discharge . Sorry if TMI . They discharged me from the hospital and said they believe I wet myself . 3 weeks later I went to my 25 week midwife appointment where they told me that I should’ve been on antibiotics for an infection that they found at that appointment (3 weeks prior ) I feel really let down and like you said absolutely had no care at all x

I’ve never met the same midwife twice either 😅 x

Why would you have an assigned midwife? Homebirth? Private route? Scheduled induction? With the system we have here only with a homebirth do you get a midwife that you know will be there on the day and that's because you have to arrange it yourself. I've never heard of a service that assigns you one but maybe in others countries they do?

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