I just called to set up preregistration and L&D. They look my insurance information, but said that I had to set up an appointment to go over everything (like my birth plan) and sign some forms.
Here's the thing. July is apparently a busy baby month. I can't get an appointment until the 12th. I'm due the 21st. I honestly think that my due date should be a week sooner, primarily because the 21st date is based on my conceiving during a week when I didn't actually have sex, but I've just stuck with the official date.
So I'm a little worried that preregistration won't happen. So what if it doesn't? Do I just stick my birth plan and a pen to sign some forms in my hospital bag and roll with it? Is preregistration even that important?
Re: Missing preregistration?
I wish I knew how that worked. I never preregistered. Mostly because I always ended up with at least ONE premature visit to L&D. So I think they did it then. This time I am at different hospital....but the docs work exclusively for THAT hospital....so my info transfers straight from doc office computer system to hospital system.
I just had to fill out a form and hand it in.
Can you pick up the form now, fill it out yourself, and either submit it now or hold on to it so that you can just hand it to them if you happen to go before the 12th?
Our doctor said it's a convenience thing. That way you don't spend 20 minutes while you're contracting, filling out forms.
Can your doctor take a copy of your birth plan and have it placed in your chart? All that info should be available to the hospital. My doctor said they will scan mine in and place it in my record so the hospital has it.
If it doesn't get done, just go with the flow. What else can you do?
If your OB is at the hospital (and not an unaffiliated clinic) ask him if you can fill the form out at an appt.
That's what my OB/hospital does. At 34 weeks while you're waiting for the doc they give you a stack of paperwork to checkoff and sign and then once with the OB there's some electronic filing to do.
Easy Peasy and takes like 8 minutes.
I can't believe you actually need an appt. for that. I'd think the sec. at L&D would be able to hand you a form anytime.
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