LollyLou, I had my 16 week one yesterday too and what a complete waste of time. I was so frustrated afterwards that when I got home I just cried.
It was a different midwife as the normal one was on holiday. She was meant to do a quadruple blood test, however, couldn't get blood from either of my veins. Has left me bruised and hurting, and has put in my notes that due to 'poor veins' she couldn't do the test, I feel like scribbling it out and changing it to 'poor midwife'. I've never had a problem giving blood, and it's not as though I had no blood flowing through either of my arms!! To top it off the student midwife then couldn't even put the plaster over the hole in my arm so I had blood trickling down my arm and the plaster beside the hole.
She didn't even ask if I wanted to hear the HB either. Good job I have my own.
I wasn't in there for more than 10 minutes. I wasn't happy. Now got to get blood taken another time, another inconvenience.