Being pregnant involves many, many, MANY trips to the doctor. And they are such a PAIN IN THE ASS! Every four weeks I have to take time out of my schedule (mostly by leaving work early) to see my friendly, fab physician. Today I've been informed that I've been upgraded to visiting every TWO weeks. (Not because anything is wrong... just because that's how it goes.) YOU'RE KILLING ME HERE! I'm trying to save all my sick time for when I'm going to need it- for March & April so I can get paid for 2 months while I recover and learn how to mommy. I can't keep giving bits and pieces of it away before hand- especially for NOTHING!
Here is how a typical visit unfolds:
1) Wait in the waiting room watching Food Network for at least 15 minutes.
2) Get weighed. (Joy! I LOVE seeing THAT number go up! Grrrrrr.....)
3) Pee in a cup.
4) Get blood pressure taken. (At least that's always a good number.)
5) Listen to baby's heartbeat. (OK, that's pretty cool.)
6) Get asked if I have any questions.
7) Am given an order for blood work. (So I can waste even MORE time waiting around somewhere else! All the labs around here close at 3:30- so guess what, MORE time away from work! AND it means having to bail on my money-saving carpool!)
8) Leave.
HOW UNEVENTFUL! THIS IS WHAT I'M LEAVING WORK FOR?!?!?!?!
Needless to say, I'm pretty underwhelmed. I was expecting so much more from these visits. This can hardly be effective monitoring.
On the other hand, I'm VERY glad that I'm not getting something shoved up my hoo-ha every 5 minutes. I was quite concerned that pregnancy would mean I'd given the general public an all access pass to my vagina, but thankfully that hasn't happened yet. I must confess that I'm such a wimp when it comes to getting my girl parts checked. (I guess I better get over that, cause I hear delivery IS basically a public event.)
So, ruling out vaginal checks, I don't know what I'd add to the visit (perhaps regular ultrasounds). But I do know that this has gotten old....
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