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I’m NOT asking for medical advice I’m asking how I should handle this issue with my doctors…

This is so long and I’m so sorry but I feel like all of it is relevant.. anything I think isn’t really relevant I’ll put in brackets

I’m Canadian almost 25 weeks pregnant and still have no first appointment with maternity and have no idea where I’m supposed to be delivering. I do however have a family doctor who is thankfully making sure all the usual tests are done as far as I can tell.

Now here’s the long part.. with my first pregnancy I was originally referred to the main hospital in my area but when I eventually got an appointment it was so far into my pregnancy I called my family doctor at the time to ask if this was fine. He immediately said no I’m not even going to try and sort this out we are sending you somewhere else. I heard from the new place very quickly and got an appointment for when I was 16 weeks which at the time I thought was late in the game. Everything was fine from there

With this pregnancy I was denied being able to go to the same place due to my complex medical history so my new family doctor referred me to the main hospital, the one we had issues with before. This happened at the beginning of November but we never heard from them.. yesterday I called the office I was referred to who told me they had lost my referral.. could you have your doctor send another. No problem…

(My family doctor told me to wait until yesterday to call her if I hadn’t heard from them yet. Then instructed me to call where I was referred to)

Today I called the office again to make sure they got the second referral at which point they told me that they never found the referral but they wouldn’t take me anyway implying I was too far along.

When I called my family doctor to let them know they said they’ve now referred me to a third doctor who has horrible reviews online

Aside from calling the new third place to check that they got my referral and waiting as instructed by my family doctor.. another week…is there anything I can do about this?

I am completely freaking out about how late into my pregnancy we are especially considering all the extra testing the hospital I went to with my first wanted to collect for themselves due to my medical history.. and the bad reviews this new guy has…

I feel like I should bring up how bad this new guy might be before we wait and see because of how far we are into this pregnancy already but is there much point… how would I even bring it up with the family doctor I have no appointments to see her

Posted Dec 10, 2025, 2:53 AM UTC

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