tryn4
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Well I had an interesting day yesterday. I was at work, I used the bathroom at about 11 am, wiped and saw a bit of bright red blood. I freaked a little. Called my husband who works around the corner & he came to get me. In the meantime I went back to the bathroom..nothing. Not a speck of blood. So anyway, I'm not used to that with any of my.other pregnancies, so I call my doc office. The secretary is like well he's not in, put your feet up...I said ok this is the second time this has happenned & her response was well we haven't seen u yet for this pregnancy. Ummm what? Anyway I tell her I want an ultrasound to be sure baby is ok, she's telling me to wait 2 more weeks for the nuchal scan. I told her no I'm.going to call the ultrasound lab see if they can squeeze me in. Now to her credit she did fax them a requisition right away AND the place squeezed me in BUT from there it got bizarre. First I ask if my husband can come she says not yet, so we go in and she (the tech) proceeds to tell me your husband can't come in cuz if there's no heartbeat & the baby is dead we won't let you look at the screen. I was like whaaa? Then she goes off because I say ok I've never heard those rules...then she tries an belly u/s & after one second she says I cant see anything we are going to have to do an internal. I said well it was there last time & I was just under 8 weeks. She said its impossible to see a heartbeat on an abdominal scan that early. I said but my husband & I both saw the heartbeat & it measured 161 bpm. She laughs & says THATS WAAAAAY TOO HIGH FOR 8 WEEKS. Thats impossible. By now I'm about to lose it. So she tells me to go pee, I go in the bathroom and txt my hubby that this woman is really scaring me, and he is asking if he can come in, so I tell him not yet. I go back, she is still being a jerk cuz I ask her ok but if everything is ok you will tell me and she replies what am I going in circles? I just told u that only if the baby is dead thats why your husband can't be in here yet. I wanted to choke her at this point but I said let's just do the internal. She goes in, finally she says oh yea your baby is alive. Does her measurements while complaining about her "hard week" last week & how her coworkers don't like it when she has to give instruction from a Dr. (i care about this why?) Finally she calls my husband in, shows him look your baby is fine, the baby is moving so much, and heartbeat is good. She went on to say further stuff about how she wouldn't let me leave if things weren't ok blah blah blah. Oh she also was bragging how she is the senior tech & has worked in 2 hospitals (again who cares) also asked me if this is my first baby y I'm so nervous, and I told her no this is my 5th and she says no way you don't look "like that" and asks me if "all those babies are alive" I left there so aggravated. I had a great obgyn down at a fantastic hospital but he is really old so when hubby & I were doing all our testing to make sure we were ok, my old obgyn office said look the waiting list for certain tests here are long, get your gp to send u to a local gyne, and you can always come back to us. Am I wrong but I called & left a message for my old office to see if they will take me. I'm just not comfortable with the whole set up these ppl have. I'm used to getting a pos hpt & from there I start to see my doc once a month. This guy won't talk to u until 12 weeks. The 2 ultrasound I've had at their lab were not good experiences. Now I'm up in the middle of the night worried about it all!
. She told me to get copies of everything from the new Dr. and bring them down. She also booked me for a monthly appt on Sep. 11...so i am back with my original hospital, where I know my husband is allowed to come into the u/s with me ( oh did I mention they did not allow my husband to be present at either of my u/s until after)...thats very unusual to me, as all my other pregnancies I could bring whomever I wanted. I am a little shy about explaining to the new dr & secretary but I am going to blame it on the lab & hospital lol. I hope they give me copies without a fight. At my old dr, when you do the nuchal scan they sit with u after explain risk and results, this place they dont give you ANYTHING, just do the u/s and send results to dr. POO. So I'm not thrilled but I am going to think positive. I will be happy when I'm back in my comfort zone.
