UK moms to be ... Is this right?

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So I called the doctors around 5 weeks to say I was pregnant and all they have done is taken my details and told me the midwife will be in touch around 8 weeks. So I have not seen a doctor so far I am almost 7 weeks now, it just feels odd to have not seen a doctor at all and to be waiting on this midwife to randomly ring. Is that how it's meant to be?

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I thinks it's terrible that we get left to just wait to hear from the midwife for weeks. I had to register my pregnancy online and now waiting to hear from the midwife. Would be nice to hear from the midwife to make it all feel a bit more real.

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I went to the Drs when I was 4 weeks. He just passed my details onto midwife who he said would be in touch. She just rang me today and I'm going to see her next Monday when I will be 7+2 weeks. Then hopefully get booked in for 12 week scan whilst I'm there!

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I rang my doctors up at 4 weeks as I was panicking because I must have conceived when I was in Cuba (zika virus country) and all they did was ring me back and say that they think I will be okay instead of doing blood tests ASAP. 
The doctor then got the midwife to ring me back who also said that I will be okay and the earliest I will find out is at 20 weeks if my baby has the virus or not. Then told me to ring her back at 6 weeks which she said I would be able to book in for a 12 week scan.
 I've just rang her now and got told to ring my doctors up again to ask for an appointment in 2 weeks time. I don't think The uk are very helpful when it comes to pregnancies!

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I'm 6 weeks there abouts and our community midwife doesn't see us till 10 weeks madness and so frustrating as all you want is to be seen and have everything rolling this is my 5 pregnancy and I look forward to build up to scans etc ov been trying to contact midwife but keep getting voicemail so frustrating. west yourkshire x

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They tried that to me here in Norway too. I found you have to take charge of your own care a bit. For instance I was concerned about my iron levels, but don't want to be chewing iron pills unnecessarily. So got an early appointment to have blood works done. Also important to talk to your doctor if you have any dodgy family medical history because it takes time to set up test appointments and all that. Not suggesting you overburden the system, but don't let them completely ignore you because they are only thinking about their own finances and not your health!

UK moms to be ... Is this right?

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