RANT WARNING
I'm pretty annoyed with my midwife (and annoyed at myself for blindly following her advice). I saw her yesterday and told her I have been feeling faint and she said I have low blood pressure suggested I drink Lucozade because "it's high in sugar and isotonic so drink it when you feel dizzy or faint" (for people not in UK, it's a carbonated glucose drink) so yesterday after seeing her I felt faint and I kept sipping on it everytime I felt dizzy and I just started feeling worse and worse (I went through 1.5 litres in total of which ~25% is pure glucose).
Eventually I googled it and.....turns out not only does it contain a lot of caffeine but also only the sports versions (non-carbonated) are isotonic. So I put in so much caffeine and sugar into my body and all it did was make me worse (I actually vomited last night and again this morning because it has made me feel so bad and I am shaky).
I know I should have googled it myself and it's usually something I do as I have a medical background but it sounded like a quick fix and I figured "oh well she's trained and has probably had 100's of women with the same problem before" but now I am really annoyed. It is 5:30am here and I am awake because I was jittering and shaking and have just vomited. I am now drinking loads of water to try and clear my system of all the nasties.
That's not the only thing that annoyed me, she also checked my urine and said "oh you have protein and white blood cells in your urine, might be an infection and if it travels up into your kidneys you'll be in hospital with IV antibiotics" now thank god I do have medical knowledge because if I didn't that would scare he bee-hesus out of me !!! Also she didn't even weigh me (this was meant to be my 16 weeks appt but she's only in every other Friday so I was almost 18 weeks) or ask if I had any questions.
Also I feel like with the way I've been feeling my iron levels should be checked (she looked at the results from my blood test 10 weeks ago and said they were fine.....but that was 10 weeks ago and my appetite is pretty shoddy atm and I can't keep down my prenatals). Especially considering I am vegetarian.
I later on realized I forgot to ask about my MatB1 which has to be in to inform my employer of impending maternity leave by the time I am 25 weeks. I phoned the GP surgery and they got her to text me and she said "I can't sign it until you are 20+ weeks" and I don't see the midwife again until I am almost 27 weeks and not her again until I am 29 weeks because at my next visit she is at her cousins wedding. After some moaning she said she would post it to me and forward date it so I can hand it in to work.
My fiance was with me for the visit and last night I mentioned it to him and said I felt really rushed and he said he felt that way too but wasn't sure if that is how it normally is supposed to be. I don't think it is, this is my first baby, I have major concerns and questions, isn't the point of a midwife to help me with that ?
RANT OVER
Anyway ---- less than 6 hours until we find out if sprout is
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