Last Wednesday, during my 29th week visit to the OBGYN, it was discovered that the doctor’s office completely missed doing the 20 week anatamy ultrasound. Being that this was my first baby, I had no idea that a 20 week scan was needed (yet I was still blamed by this office for “not reminding them”).
But anyway, today’s ultrasound at 11:45 am was my first scan since 13 weeks. It was also my first “tummy” scan! Personally, I prefer a transvaginal one because the images are clearer but the tummy one was my only option this time. I really couldn’t tell what in the world was going on though, but whether it was the fault of the new tech or the fact that my baby is now big, I really don’t know.
I did get some clear views of his ribs, his heart beating (viewing the 4 chamber heart beating was awesome), his forearm, his butt (which confirmed that he was indeed a boy…whew), and…
…HIS ORBITS!
That’s right folks. His orbits. Throughout the entire scan, the tech kept using the official words (i.e. lateral right disbobulating fibula?) for everything we were viewing. And she was saying it as if I knew exactly what she was talking about - and the few times I asked for clarification (the common name) she looked at me as if I was a lobster with no intellect. Seriously. Finally, I just resolved to keep my mouth shut. 
Well, that is, until we were viewing his head and she said “Awww and there is his orbits!”
I had taking about as much as my pregnant nerves could take and said in exasperation “Uh…you mean his EYES???”.
*sigh*
My mom was in the room with me, keeping quiet this whole time. She told me after the visit that she assumed I knew what the lady was saying, although she wondered why I was keeping quiet! I told mom I definately did not know what she was talking about during 95% of the scan.
At the end of the scan, she gave him a clean report - he looked perfect from what she could tell (no cleft lip, heart looks great, bones formed well). Thankfully, their video recorder was working this visit and I got a great video tape for my husband too!
I then cleaned up my tummy, and me and mom said thanks to the tech, then left the room. Mom headed on back to the lobby while I stopped by the check out window and handed the receptionist lady my chart. I also asked her if I could get prenatal vitamins now.
See, at the beginning of my pregnancy it was recommended that I take the Walmart Equate brand of prenatal vitamins, then later on at the end of my pregnancy I was to transfer over to taking the stronger doctor prescribed brand. So, the other day I ran out of my Equate vitamins and seeing that I was already at 30 weeks I thought it was now time to make the switch. I briefly explained this to the receptionist after she looked at me as if I were an alien asking about taking KHDHFIEJLDOK Bonb Bonk or something.
She then raised her eyebrow at me and said “Are you still pregnant???”.
It was about all I could do to stop from jumping over the half wall and attacking at that point. This was the same lady who blamed me (the worst) for not reminding them about the 20 week scan. But I kept my cool, composed myself after about 5 seconds of shock, glanced at my chart (in her hand) that I just handed to her and said “Yes, I am only at 30 weeks”.
She then smiled and said “Oh, well you know you can take the over the counter ones”.
And at that point I proceeded to repeat the fact that I’ve been taking the over the counter ones for 7 months and it was recommended by their office that I switch to prescribed doctor vitamins (aka “the stronger ones”) near the end of the pregnancy.
She then called over Dr. Nancy (one of the 2 women doctors in the office that I see regularly) and I had to repeat my question – and my reason for asking for the vitamins.
I kept thinking, should getting vitamins from the doctor be THIS hard????
Dr. Nancy finally understood (whew) and sent a nurse to the back who returned with 40 days worth of sample boxes of the stronger pregnancy vitamins that I had been shown way back in August. I was expecting to actually purchase some but wasn’t going to look down on my good fortune of free samples.
Truely, I don’t think I’ll be returning to this particular OBGYN with my next baby.
On a lighter note, when my mom and I returned to her house after the visit we popped in the video and was happy to see it actually worked this time (as opposed to what happened after my 13 week scan). Kevin was very excited to see the ultrasound tape tonight too! He sat on the couch with a huge smile on his face trying to point out everything he could (“there’s his foot! there’s his finger! there’s his…uh…”). We also did a frame by frame slow play and was able to pause it on a great (although upside down) view of the baby’s face. He looks just like his daddy, even in the womb.
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