Hi Twiddley.

You should be fine if you see your doctor at 4 weeks - it seems you are more concerned about a referal for the next appointment. Perhaps you could ask you doctor to ring you so you can get the names of the Obs they would recommend, as these are the ones that it can be hard to make an appointent with. You can then ring them to make your first specialist appointment, and get the referal when you see your GP. You can also ask the receptionist for what you need to do re booking into hospitals etc.

I found out at 4 week/3days - and it was Good Friday! I was lucky as my GP only works on Saturdays, and she was working Easter Saturday and could see me. She gave me a referal to a specialist she recommended (as I had no idea - turns out he is lovely and well respected), and advised me to ring 9am on the Tuesday morning - which I did, and I got my first appoinmant at 10 weeks.

My GP advised me that if I hadn't been able to see the specialist at around 10 weeks, to come back and see her as she could sort out my 12 week scans etc. So you should't worry too much yet.

If you have a local hospital, you could also ring them to find out their proceedures etc. I think every doctor and specilaist is as individual as every pregnant woman!

It's a very exciting but nervous time (I'm 12 weeks tomorrow and going for my first scan!), but read up/chat as much as you can and you should be ok.

Might be a good idea to take a pregnacy multivitamin too if you haven't already....

Good luck.

SUSAN