Last Friday, my wife had her first midwife appointment at Sunshine Hospital. Her appointment was set at 1.30 p.m and she took half day off to get there on time. Since, it was a public hospital, there were a lot of pregnant ladies who were also waiting to be checked upon and each one has waited for their turns, including my wife. She patiently waited until finally she was attended to at 2 pm.
Her midwife has oriented her first on hospital policies and guidelines on maternity and has given her lots of informations to read about. There were some leaflets regarding vaccine for Hepatitis-B, Vitamin K and D deficiency and its effects to the child. She was also provided with her VMR, it is her pregancy Diary that will bear all informations about her and what has been going on with her all through out. She needs to bring it whenever she will be having her appointment as it is more possible that she will be looked upon not only by one midwife but quite a few. It depends on who will be the mid wife working on the date and time of her appointment. All schedules are properly set for her. She will be seeing an Ob-Gyne on the 27th of November. As mentioned to her, the purpose of this, is for her to be assessed whether she will be falling under either Low or High Risk pregnancy. If she will be assessed as High Risk, then she needs to be attended by the doctor each visit and upon actual delivery but if she will be assessed otherwise, which we hope and pray she'll be, she will be taken care of the midwives. Before she left her midwife's clinic to proceed to pathology for her blood test, she was given a mother to be bag. The bag was full of brochures on baby stuffs and promotions. There were a few samples of different items like nappy, cream and vitamin.
As she was referred by her midwife to the pathologist on the same day, she had her second blood test. The first one was done months ago to check her Vitamin D level. She was a bit deficient that's why she is currently on Vitamin D tablet. The second blood test was to check for her blood count and Hepatitis B. She was taken more blood samples. She said that there were about 4 tubes of blood taken from her. The pathologist said that it was part of the procedure so they could have more accurate testing.
We are really satisfied on how all aspects are looked upon and are all set on a timely basis. We didn't pay for anything and yet we are confident that my wife and our child is being taken care properly. We are also excited as she is booked on the 2nd of December for her second ultrasound. Just in time for us to know the gender of the baby as well. We hope that it will be a girl this time but more importantly that we pray that the baby comes out healthy and normal.
Her midwife has oriented her first on hospital policies and guidelines on maternity and has given her lots of informations to read about. There were some leaflets regarding vaccine for Hepatitis-B, Vitamin K and D deficiency and its effects to the child. She was also provided with her VMR, it is her pregancy Diary that will bear all informations about her and what has been going on with her all through out. She needs to bring it whenever she will be having her appointment as it is more possible that she will be looked upon not only by one midwife but quite a few. It depends on who will be the mid wife working on the date and time of her appointment. All schedules are properly set for her. She will be seeing an Ob-Gyne on the 27th of November. As mentioned to her, the purpose of this, is for her to be assessed whether she will be falling under either Low or High Risk pregnancy. If she will be assessed as High Risk, then she needs to be attended by the doctor each visit and upon actual delivery but if she will be assessed otherwise, which we hope and pray she'll be, she will be taken care of the midwives. Before she left her midwife's clinic to proceed to pathology for her blood test, she was given a mother to be bag. The bag was full of brochures on baby stuffs and promotions. There were a few samples of different items like nappy, cream and vitamin.
As she was referred by her midwife to the pathologist on the same day, she had her second blood test. The first one was done months ago to check her Vitamin D level. She was a bit deficient that's why she is currently on Vitamin D tablet. The second blood test was to check for her blood count and Hepatitis B. She was taken more blood samples. She said that there were about 4 tubes of blood taken from her. The pathologist said that it was part of the procedure so they could have more accurate testing.
We are really satisfied on how all aspects are looked upon and are all set on a timely basis. We didn't pay for anything and yet we are confident that my wife and our child is being taken care properly. We are also excited as she is booked on the 2nd of December for her second ultrasound. Just in time for us to know the gender of the baby as well. We hope that it will be a girl this time but more importantly that we pray that the baby comes out healthy and normal.
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