When to call us
During pregnancy
Call 06-54788178 when:
- You are worried
- You have contractions (or stomach ache) and have not yet been pregnant for 37 weeks
- You have loss of blood
- You don’t feel well, a kind of sick and unpleasant feeling
- You have a pain on the right-hand side above your stomach. You have a
tight feeling around your midriff (the place behind your bra under your breasts) - You have a stomach ache
- You are bothered by light or have other complaints about your eyes
- You are suddenly retaining fluids in your face or your legs
- You have a tingling feeling in your fingersYou have complaints the can indicate high blood pressure like:
Call 020-627 97 67 when:
- You want to register at the practice
- You want to change an appointment (you cannot do this by email)
- You have small complaints or questions that are not urgent. A midwife will then call you back within a couple of hours
- You have administrative questions
- You need a certificate (of pregnancy) for your employer or an airline company
During delivery
Always call 06-54788178
- You are worried
- There is loss of blood
You are having contractions
- It is your first delivery you should call us if you have been having regular contractions for an hour, recurring every 3 minutes and continuing for 1 minute.
- You have given birth before, you should call us if you are having contractions every five minutes and continuing for 1 minute. It is possible that we make a different arrangement, depending on how your first confinement went.
Your waters break
- It is brown or green (or you doubt it) call us immediately
- It is colourless with white (or light pink) flakes and:
- The head has not yet engaged (we will tell you this during surgery), call us immediately
- The head has engaged then you don’t need to call us during the night; try to go back to sleep and call us in the morning. If this happens in daytime, you can call us immediately.
In the postnatal period
Always call 06-54788178
- You are worried
- You are losing a lot of blood. If you lose more than two large clots of blood or if you continue to bleed as if a tap is open
- You feel ill and have a fever
- You feel down
- The baby is not drinking well
- You think that the baby is ill
- The temperature of the baby is lower than 36.5 or higher than 37.5 degrees Centigrade.