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Grr...antenatal class rant....
hi, at my last mw apt i had a different mw who gave me dates for both the april and may classes. They suggest to attend them at 28-30 wks. As i will be 31 weeks next wk i tried contacting my mw at the beginning of the wk to book myself in for the april classes. Only managed to speak to her a second ago. she told me the april ones are over booked and most babies go past term and will put me dowen for the may ones when i will be 37 weeks at the first one. She said the classess usually only are meant for 12 mothers but the april ones have 24...do they think only 12 mothers are due each month or something!
Im not too bothered,just annoyed as my managed has given me the next few tues off so i can attend them which means my next w/e off isnt until the beginning of may. i know i have the legal rights to attend antenatal but as we are short staffed at work i didnt want to tell them last minute. Im going to ring the local hosp tomorrow and see if i can get hold of any mws in the local area who can add me to their classess. I suggested this to my mw, but she shrugged me off and said they have their own mothers! GRRRR...
Rant over...when have or are you booked in for your antenatal classes? xxx
[Modified by: Bumpety Bump on 27 March 2008 18:14:30 ]
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Poz - yes it was a community mw. Theres a group of mw based at a community hospital and there are two local big villages that hold classes (1 in april, the other may) which have mothers from the local villages. Does that make sense?!? Which is why 12 for one group a month seems quite small.
She phoned me at around 5pm to say it was over booked. I got a text from her at 2pm to say yes i could attend the class and she had booked me a place! Im guessing she doesnt do much communicating with her colleagues! within 3 hrs, it's oversubscribed by double! hmmmm....
I will research into children centres. Thanks for the advice ladies. xxx