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| Weeks 23 - 24 4/14/02 - 4/27/02 |
| We went for our regular doctor's appointment, 4/22, and what started out horribly ended wonderfully!!!!! There are 2 doctors at my practice... one that I love to death, who took care of us all through losing Faith, did my c-section, has called me on Sundays to see how I am doing, etc etc.... and then there is the other doc that I despise!!!!!!!!! So it seemed kind of hectic there and we are waiting in the exam room and the nurse stops the bad doctor in the hallway and asks if she'll see me cause my doctor was still with a patient.... Jim and I just looked at each other like "Oh No!" (My doctor has made sure that she has seen us every visit cause she knows we are much more comfortable with her) Anyway, the mean doctor comes in and says "Ok well this is just gonna be quick!" she whips out the doppler and literally listens for like 2 beats!!!!!! and she's done... and then says "ok, we'll see you in 4 weeks!" ?!?!?!?! That's it!!!! I kind of give her a look and she glances at my chart and says.... "So you're on blood pressure medication right???" and I said "UH NO!!!! I have not had any blood pressure issues", then she says "You had Gestational Diabetes last time right?".... "UH NO!!! I was supposed to test the week we lost our daughter"..... then she looks at my chart again and says "Oh OK... so come in next time and we'll do your Gloucose test and we'll start your NST's since you had a fetal demise" Well that was about all I could take!!!!!!! Fetal Demise!!!!! Could you be anymore insensitive!!! Maybe in medical terms I had a Fetal Demise but in MY world.... I lost my precious baby daughter!! And if I didn't know what NST's were already (non stress tests) I would have had no idea what she was talking about.... I was just about fuming when my doctor came around!!!! Thank Goodness!!!!! The mean doctor whispered something about discussing the NST's and left!!! GOOD RIDDENS!!!! I think my doctor could tell we weren't happy and I was about to go into it all but she already knows how I feel about her and it wasn't my doctor's fault that she took us. She smiled and said "SO! I can't remember... do we know what this little one is?!" , I said "noooooo", she said "Do you want to! Cause I want to!"..... so off to the ultra-sound room we went!!! The baby is still in a breech position so it was hard to get it but she was able to get a decent look and we stared for a long time to make sure.... but she was able to see the labia a couple of times and she kept coming in at different angles to make sure and there was never "anything" sticking out anywhere!!! She just looked at us and said "Looks like Faith's a big sister!!".... tears came to my eyes!!! We are having another little girl!! She said there is still a slim slim chance that something was tucked away..... but she saw the labia so it is pretty definate, she said she just never says 100% with ultra-sounds!!!! We decided we are going with it and are just keeping receipts for any girl stuff!! YEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) We have a couple of ultra-sound photos but they aren't really good, as we were really there to see one thing! And the machine ran out of paper after 2 pics..... There is one of the face and one of the back/spine.... |