Monday, January 23, 2012

33 Week Appt

We had a drs. appt on Friday and an ultrasound. The ultrasound was at 9 and the appt at 9:30. We spent until 12:30 at the drs. It was a bit of a fiasco. We sign in at 8:40 and to start out our wait we sat next to this couple who talked so bad about everyone in the waiting room. They were awful. I mean once someone's name was called this couple was going to town. Evidently, they are so perfect and have the right to belittle every single person in the waiting area......yeah right! Anyway, we go back for our ultrasound and we had a new technician. She did our scan, calculated measurements, and called Dr. Curtain in. Baby is measuring 5 pounds which is 64th percentile and my fluid has NOT increased. REPEAT MY AMNIOTIC FLUID HAS NOT INCREASED from December 5 when it was measured. It's still an 8. Dr. Curtain, who is Director of Chairman Maternal Fetal Medicine says everything looks great have a nice appt. We go over to my appt. I gained 1 pound Yeah! My blood pressure is good and a med student goes to measure my belly. She gets 30. I said wait a second. I haven't measured 30 in weeks are you sure that's right. So the Dr. (someone neither Keith or I couldn't understand nor have met before) measures again and gets 37. It scares me that if I wouldn't have said anything it would be documented that way. In any event, he moves on to talk about my fluid levels. He wants me to have a non stress test twice a week then come in 1 time a week for an appt. I am a bit upset about this because I feel it's unwarranted. There has been no increase/change I don't see the cause for it. It would result in needing a sitter for Brock 3 times a week. It just isn't possible. Plus the hour drive one way. I do however agree to do the test while I am there and low and behold baby didn't move enough so I failed. They now take me for a second ultrasound called a biophysical profile and after waiting 45 min for the test, baby passed in the first 5 min. Dr. Curtain comes in once again and says everything is fine have a nice day. My drs office is now infuriated with me because I have chose to decline the medical treatment, but based on 1 dr and tests that we know the results too, I don't see why it's medically necessary. Needless to say, when we left we were frustrated, tired, and hungry. We go back in a week and I'm sure we will go to the other end of the spectrum as that is what seems to happen from week to week. I am very unhappy and I wish we could just see 1 dr.

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