Is there any need??

[Traveller]

The main reason to see your GP in your first trimester is so that booking visits with your OB or midwife and 12 week scans (if you choose to accept them) can be organised. Some OB's will want to check you over if you have a history of complications but there's no real need to see an OB until later in pregnancy.

[Charlotte91]

The chances of DD's condition happening again is (depending on who you ask) between 1:50 and 1:20.
Complications I had last time:
Gastroschisis (DD's defect)
Oligohydramnios (low amniotic fluid)
Severe IUGR (DD was delivered at 34 weeks, weighing and measuring at only a 30 weeker)
Placental Insuffiency (it was aging way too fast, and my left side had given up completely)
Preterm labour (which is linked to Gastroschisis, alot of bubs come early with alot of preterm labour, for some reason)
And then 2 rounds of steriods.

So, I would qualify for the high-risk OB but I'd just rather stay with my original OB. He was fantastic, we even saw him a few times in between seeing Melbourne because they weren't explaining anything to us. So we'd have the ultrasounds and then come all the way up here (150kms to my old OB, 500kms to Melbourne) and get my old OB to explain to us what's happening.

DD's birth defect wasn't picked up til her morphology scan at 20 weeks. I'm going to ask if there's any possibility of having another scan at 16 weeks to see if they can look at the umbilical cord insertion to make sure it hasn't happened again.
It sucks. In America they can pick it up at the 12 week scan, but not here.

Thanks for the replies so far!

[[M]umma[M]ia]

I didnt see an OB until about 30 weeks when my blood pressure started to rise. Theres nothing they can do that a normal GP/midwife cant.

[Charlotte91]

That's my thought, although getting a hold of the local m/w is hard. And the GP who was here when I was pregnant with DD told everyone who got pregnant "I don't do the babies"

[sloane]

i'm not seeing a GP-Ob until almost 18 weeks this time. i've seen my GP a few times for BP (i had PG-induced hypertension from 6 weeks last time) & had my booking in appt with a midwife where i'm having the baby but that's it. i feel really comfortable this way (despite the BP last time & having GD) & am actually finding it less stressful. i'm doing the follow through journey with a student midwife & am seeing her for the first time this friday.

maybe you could call your old ob & see what they say?

[Miss.September]

I go private, and my OB never wants to see anyone until 12 weeks.

[NaeNae]

As long as you see a GP who will organise your early bloods, 12 week scan and/or an earlier viability scan, then you actually wouldn't see an Ob until after 12 weeks HOWEVER You should make a booking with your Ob as soon as you get a referral from your GP becausea good one is usually hard to get in regardless of if you are a former patient or not.

[Elocin]

I'm going private and saw my Ob to confirm my pg - I don't like my GP, and because I knew my Ob could do an u/s in his office. Usually he doesn't see anyone until after the NT scan or at about 15/16w.

[Mumma T]

I am going public and don't see anyone til 12 weeks. Until then everything is done by my GP. She has organised my scans and bloods.