Vacation from Pregnancy

I had a regular OB appointment yesterday and somehow managed to get mixed up about the time. I had a 10:30am appointment, but I thought it was at 2pm for some reason and showed up at the wrong time. The doctor's office managed to squeeze me in, but I needed to see a different doctor and not my regular OB. I thought this was pretty decent of them, since while I was there they needed to cancel/reschedule 3 other patients who were waiting for their appointments with one of the other doctors in the practice who had "gone missing." Sometimes it pays to be an OB patient -- so I was able to have an unscheduled appointment and these other women with valid gynecological appointments were sent away. I was almost proud of myself for having screwed up the appointment. It is so unlike me to me less than obsessive about my medical care, at least as far as fertility and pregnancy goes, so being casual enough to miss an OB appointment is a bit of an accomplishment. Having a pregnancy with so much medical intervention already on top of all the medical intervention it took to get pregnant to begin with has taken its toll on me. I think I'm at the point now where I need a little vacation from pregnancy. I know that is not really possible, but if it were, 21 weeks seems like the optimal time to try.

The doctor I saw is the 3rd OB in the practice -- I have not had any contact with him yet this pregnancy and I had very little to do with him last pregnancy either. So obviously given the scheduling mix up, he had my massive chart dumped on him at the last minute and had to try to make sense of it. He was actually trying to read my chart and I guess I have come to have such low expectations for doctors at this point that was enough to make me happy. He asked if I had any questions about my conceiving through IUI, hypothyroidism, Rh negative status, or prior delivery through c-section. Lucky for this guy, this was actually the one doctor's appointment ever that I really had no questions. Since I did not have any questions, he kept going with his. How old was I? Had I conceived using donor eggs? Donor eggs + IUI ... hmmm.. that would be a neat trick. I guess I will add him to the list of OB's that I have met during my pregnancies that don't know much about how fertility treatment works. Luckily, there is not much going on at the moment as far as the pregnancy goes, so there really was nothing to talk about. I got a copy of my ultrasound report from last week at the high risk practice and left.

I had my 20 week scan at the high risk practice last week. This is a very long scan because all the anatomy is examined very closely. My little guy was very active and really hamming it up for the audience. Everything is fine. The baby was measuring 5 days ahead at 21w1d, which makes sense, since they still insist on dating the pregnancy inaccurately. There are no visible problems with the heart. After the technician scanned me, Dr. Jolly came in to take a look. Now, I normally like Dr. Jolly, but he seemed in a big rush for this visit, which I really, really don't like. Even Y, who is much less picky when it comes to doctors than I am, complained that he flipped through the screen captures that the tech had taken during the ultrasound so quickly that she seriously doubted if he would have been able to see anything wrong. I asked for permission to stop seeing the cardiologist, but that was a non-starter. I may take it upon myself to stop going -- I can't see why I need to see a cardiologist when the baby does not have a diagnosed cardiac condition. I don't need to go back for another growth scan for 6 weeks. I'm pretty psyched to actually be able to go more than a month without another ultrasound. I know a lot of women look forward to the ultrasounds, but after having 12 of them so far and only being halfway through pregnancy, I'm a bit over it.