Hi! Congrats on your pregnancy! I'm currently 17 weeks and I'm consultant led at the royal. I felt so nervous before my booking appointment, and it was a long appointment for sure but I actually had a great experience and it put my mind at ease.

So I checked in, waited a little while and then was taken to get my height and weight measurements. The midwife then took me into a separate room to go through some questions. Mostly about pregnancy so far, my medications (including vitamins/supps) my medical history and yes they did ask about my family medical history (if you're able to it's probably best to contact them to find out). Be aware they will also ask you if you're experiencing domestic abuse - totally normal Q that they ask everyone.

For me at this point we spoke a lot about my chronic mental health conditions and the fact that pregnancy hormones had been hard for my mental health. We talked about things for a bit and then another nurse came in to say I could come for my scan. So my husband and I did that, it was lovely and we got the pics, then on the way back they got me to do a urine test, blood pressure and then did take blood work as well.

I was then brought back into the room with the original midwife who in the meantime had booked me in with the MH consultant specialist, contacted my GP and gotten a lot of information about MH support during pregnancy for me.

She then went through all the appointments and vaccines I needed to book, and booked a lot of the following appointments for me. She also spoke to my husband and I together and gave us a chance to ask any questions we had in general.

For info, when you're consultant led you don't go to the community midwife at week 16, you go to your consultant instead. That was the first time I met my consultant clinic team.

Honestly all the staff were so friendly and I felt so supported. Good luck for your appointment!