I would rather go to the hospital for my appointments than a GP - I would rather be seen by a midwife than a doctor, and at my local medical centre the waiting times are often longer than those at the antenatal clinic anyway! So far in this pregnancy the longest wait I have had was about 30 mins, and that is because I was booked to see an OB (you have to see one at least once during the pregnancy even if you are low risk, don't know why though, the one I saw didn't do anything a midwife couldn't have done). They have the clinic open 5 days a week, all day too - they have to because it is such a busy maternity hospital.
I found with DD my OB appts were always atleast an hour wait past my appt time the most i waited was 2hrs15min.
The midwives clinics were also very busy and was nothing to wait over an hour each time.
This time round they have put me at their Panch clinic as the Mercy clinic is FULL yep thats right no room at the midwives appts AT ALL for me on the day i go.
BUT in saying that it works perfectly as i take DD with me and there we only wait 15min for the midwife... YAY
I had an appt with the OB and made it as early as possible and only waited about 30min.
It is hard with public and at the moment we must be going through another baby boom, just my luck as with DD there were 23 births in my hosp the day she was born!
GL with it all and i hope you don't have to wait that long all the time.
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