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I completely understand!!!! I had a miscarriage in December and then I found out I was pregnant with my rainbow baby and I called my obgyn to set up an appointment and they wouldn’t see me until I was about 12 weeks and I was panicked because I didn’t want to lose this baby too. Well then I had some things happening that really concerned me and I called up there and they NEVER called me back... I finally got tired of dealing with them so I tried a new obgyn and I got in the next week!!
When was your first appointment?
I had my first OB appointment scheduled for tomorrow at 10w5d. I scheduled this appointment when I was 5w2d at my annual GYN exam where they did a urine test to confirm the pregnancy. They told me that new OB appointments are scheduled between 10 and 12 weeks. I got a call this afternoon canceling my appointment and rescheduling it for June 3, at 12w1d, and they said they need to see me before 13 weeks.
I am so angry about it, my husband and I both took the day off work to go, now we need to take off again. My old doctors office (which my mom and I both worked for) saw patients between 6 and 8 weeks, so waiting until after 10 weeks was hard enough, and now I have to wait even longer. I was told it was because of a delivery and it happens often that appointments need to be cancelled, which just annoyed me even more, because now I feel like all of my appointments are going to be cancelled. I understand that other patients have to deliver, but they make their schedules so tight that there is no room to accommodate deliveries and other patients.
I just needed to vent. I want to see my baby already and know everything is alright.
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an
That's it exactly. With my old ob it was him and one pa and only he delivered. If he had to deliver the pa was there for appts. Or was an intimate relationship and i really felt i knew and trusted them. My insurance changed and now i'm in a large practice. I had one visit prepregnancy where the woman told me( i was 34 then) to reconsider getting for a baby because i'm too old. Then for my first appt dr called in sick and i can't get in until June 5th even though i'm high risk in multiple ways. Im just another number to them and i don't like that. I wish i could go back to my other ob.
Ke
To the wayside, and it seems seeing as many patients as possible to get as much billing as possible has taken over.
Ke
That’s horrible. Some offices have no bedside manner. It’s something that seems to have really fallen to
I’ve seen a lot of posts talking about the first appointment between 10 and 12 weeks here, and that does seem late to me. This is mostly because if you do the NT Scan and sequential screening, you have to verify your pregnancy through ultrasound/a first appointment and get an official due date based on baby’s measurements, make an appointment for the NT Scan based on those measurements between 11-13 weeks, and of course get the scan done in that time frame. I was told if I waited until 11-13 weeks to make my appointment for the NT scan it was feasible that the schedule would be filled and I’d miss my chance. Or, I could have been off with my dates and if I went in at what I thought was 11 weeks but it turned out to be 12 weeks, the window to get certain tests done would be closing. I had my first appointment at 9 weeks, and that was a week later than they originally wanted to see me. At that appointment the dr talked to me about my genetic screening options and told me to get a jump on talking to insurance and scheduling whichever tests I would like to have done.
Ugh this happened to me twice with my midwives right at the beginning but weirdly never happened again the whole time I was pregnant With my daughter and the past two appointments that I’ve had. If it really bugs you, I’d suggest finding a larger practice so that they don’t cancel for deliveries (since not every doctor is going to every delivery). My midwives office only has two midwives and they’ll both attend every birth, so it makes sense that they’d cancel if they’ve been up all night (or if they’ve been at an actual birth)
Ke
This is a large practice with multiple offices, and several doctors and midwives. And they only deliver at one hospital. That’s what annoys me the most. The practice my mom used to work in had far fewer doctors/midwives and delivered at 3 different hospitals and patient appointments were barely canceled and never OB appointments, they would be fit in to someone else’s schedule that day.
I totally get your frustration. I got to a pretty large practice with eight different doctors. It makes it easy so one or two do appointments at each office and one is at the hospital doing rounds. Plus they work along side an entire practice of midwives. But, when my mom delivered my brother, her favorite OB came in while on vacation to preform the c-section. And when I lost my daughter, the head of the OB/gyn unit came in three times throughout the night to ensure I was alright. No one else delivered between 8pm and 7am but he was by my side.
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