I shouldn't say your GP was wrong. He did the right thing by referring you elsewhere I should have said he perhaps thought bubs heartrate was decelerating when it wasn't. Bubs can have a decel here or there but they shouldn't be regular or prolonged.
Thanks, Mildez. I am leaning towards agreeing with you there. The CTG would be way more accurate than the GP looking at his watch and holding my wrist, while listening to the doppler etc......
Ikwym though. He seems to have erred on the side of caution, which is a good thing. I guess the main thing I'm feeling bad about is getting this far without really worrying much at all............... only to have a bit of a scare and now feeling rather paranoid. But that's nobody's fault. Thanks for your reply
Were you lying on your back? I remember a couple of times my midwife checked the heart rate was not so good but when I shifted to my side it came good...
I was on my back, yes. But that's the way we've done it every time and never had any issues..... I was actually going to suggest that I shift to my side to encourage bubs to get into a better position for him to listen.
Yeah, I don't know. It was usually fine for me too, but sometimes lying that way can affect blood flow so maybe it was a factor. As Mildez said, the fact that all was good on the CTG is very reassuring.
All the best for the rest of your pregnancy.
I would say it was quite possible that your GP could hear something was a bit different but using the doppler meant he couldn't hear or track it well enough, and couldn't monitor for long enough to see if was an one off blip or an ongoing thing, so he send you to hospital where they could do more accurate tracking and get better information about the HB. So I wouldn't necessarily say he was wrong, just may not have had the tools available to assess it well enough so sent you where they did have the tools available. Glad to hear it was all good
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