Happy 17 month birthday to my big guy. He
\n celebrated by spending 2 hours at the hospital going with me
\n from one doctor appointment to another. Fun. I treated him to a
\n blueberry muffin at the end :)<\/p>\n
We had
\n our 2nd ultrasound today. It was highly annoying. The
\n technician was professional and polite, but that’s about it.
\n She told us Lex could stay in the room, but couldn’t walk
\n around, so Alan had to hold him. That lasted all of about 5
\n minutes. Lex likes his freedom. So Alan and Lex left to wander
\n the hospital hallways. I stayed to get abused. Apparently baby
\n wasn’t in a position the tech could work with, so she kept
\n poking my lower abdomen with the ultrasound wand in an effort
\n to get baby in a different position. Baby is apparently camera
\n shy. She was trying to see the face and baby kept putting its
\n arm up to block her – probably wasn’t appreciating the pokings
\n either :) After 1\/2 hour (my others all took about 10 minutes),
\n she told me to stay put (flat on my back, gel all over my
\n belly), while she ran the report… just in case. Then she
\n comes in 10 minutes later and says, “Are you seeing the
\n high-risk doctors?” I say, “No, should I be?” She says, “Just
\n curious.” and leaves! What the hell! Then she comes back 10
\n minutes later with the report. <\/p>\n
Soo….
\n I meet up with Alan and Lex and we head to the follow up
\n appointment with the midwife. Alan has to go to work, so it’s
\n just Lex and I now. The nurse asked how the ultrasound went, so
\n I told her it was long, painful, annoying, and apparently they
\n think I need to see the high-risk doctor. She was concerned and
\n opened my report right away. Then she gave me the report and
\n showed me that everything was normal. She left it with me to
\n read while I waited for the midwife, but I didn’t get to it as
\n I was feeding Lex. So the midwife comes in a few minutes later
\n (I love these ladies), scans the report, and also comments on
\n how everything is great and she has no idea what the tech was
\n talking about. The she says, “So, she told you you’re having a
\n little girl?” I must have had a pretty blank look on my face
\n because I had told the tech we didn’t want to know and I was
\n pretty sure the tech never even went down there. I said,
\n “Nooo… she didn’t tell me and I told her we didn’t want to
\n know.” But there it was, right on the report. Which was ok, but
\n just a surprise. My midwife was none too pleased because the
\n tech is supposed to write “parent doesn’t want to know” and not
\n even check. She left to call the tech and see what was going
\n on. The midwife thought maybe I had the wrong report or
\n something! She comes back a few minutes later, happy but
\n annoyed, and said the tech hit the wrong button and never even
\n looked down there (like I thought). The tech wasn’t apologetic
\n or anything, just all matter-of-fact. My midwife apparently
\n gave her a good talking to about how “hitting the wrong button”
\n isn’t an acceptable thing to do when dealing with the sex of a
\n child, neither is asking about high-risk without an
\n explanation. I guess all reports have a doctor and midwife name
\n on them (since some insurance companies won’t pay for midwife
\n services) so the tech was confused by that – hence the
\n high-risk question. <\/p>\n
I’ve officially had
\n enough ultrasounds for this pregnancy. They are progressively
\n getting more and more annoying. And I guess we now know that we
\n may (or may not) be having a girl :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Happy 17 month birthday to my big guy. He celebrated by spending 2 hours at the hospital going with me from one doctor appointment to another. Fun. I treated him to a blueberry muffin at the end :) We had … Continue reading