OB appointment today…
Gained 2 lbs., still around 1.5 cm, think he said I’d thinned out a little more (don’t really remember)…
Overall, today’s visit was really good! My least favorite doc in the group years ago is my favorite one this time – he’s open to listen!
So, as he was about to run out the door after a quick visit, I began sharing some concerns with him. He pulled up his stool, sat down, and was all ears! Okay, now THIS is a doctor I like! I had pretty much decided NOT to go to this hospital to have the baby if there was time – unless this doc was on call.
Last week, I had asked the doctor to check my anticardiolipin levels (for antiphospholipid antibody syndrome). She put up a huge fuss, and after fighting for 5 minutes, she did finally order it for me. I mainly wanted it since I’d tested positive for 3 pregnancies and one miscarriage.
I learned during my last pregnancy that APS carries HIGH risks for mother and baby the last few weeks – with blood clots developing and killing one or both. This pregnancy, early on, I tested negative.
The doc last week said if I DID have it, it would always be positive – that I must’ve had a false positive. (For years??)
Anyway, I kept telling her it was only for my peace of mind, since it was near the end of the pregnancy. She tried to get me to have a stress test instead, or fetal growth test. I stayed insistent on the bloodwork – since that would give a definite answer.
Before she surrendered, she spoke these words…
Now you know that if we do this test, and it comes back positive, that you’ll be subjected to weekly tests and monitoring from this point out. Are you willing to do that?? (Picture this said with a very smart-alecky look and tone).
Well, YEAH!!! If it’s positive and there’s a problem that could jeopardize my baby’s or my own health, you’d better believe I’ll do whatever is needed! What is this lady thinking?? Sadly, I have faced drs. in the past that would say ‘well, you’ve only had 1 miscarriage, and even with the blood work, you aren’t technically diagnosed until 3 miscarriages’.
CRAZY!! Here were drs. telling me not to take meds, until I’d lost 3 precious lives/ souls – THEN they would acknowledge this and advise me to take meds…. Uh – NO!!
Okay, well, this has been prayed over – a lot! I have such a build up of aspirin in my body that now I react to it, as well as foods in the same family – like grapes and food colorings….
I believe the Lord has healed it – and the results came back negative again!! 
Well, the dr. today was clearly shocked when I shared this with him. He could’ve gotten a kiss on his forehead for telling me that if she was on call when I had the baby, and it was during the day on a day when he was in the office – that I could ask for him and HE would come over and deliver the baby! He’s not even my dr!!
So now, I feel much better about going to this hospital for the delivery – since I have him open to my birth plan (which he said was a piece of cake!!) and willing to listen to me (unless of emergency, and then he said I would just have to trust him – which I would… him, not the others so much).
He was saying how he was happy to discuss anything I had concerns about – better now than when I’m in labor! He even claimed ‘dictatorship’ over the nurses, when I mentioned some problems with them with the kidney stone. So, as much as you can love an OB, he’s great!
Sadly, I only have 2 more visits, and he’s not on either one of them… My dr. is supposed to see me those times. I haven’t seen her in ages, so I hope she’ll be just as open.
My prediction right now is that I’ll either be 2 or 3 days EARLY – OR – 3 to 4 days LATE. Don’t ask me why – that’s just my thoughts. I have started writing my letter to this precious little one, and hopefully will have it done by the time it’s born.
Time for bed – don’t forget to keep checking out the contests all week! BTW – I did add the link for Cutzie Patuzie site – sorry for the blunder…
“Little Mommy”
