Yesterday, I hit a milestone in the pregnancy – I’m now 34 weeks and on my weekly doctor visit schedule! The countdown has started in full force!
Yesterday was my first “weekly” doctor visit. Because I am a gestational diabetic patient, they will be doing an ultrasound at each weekly visit to monitor the baby’s growth. It’s quite exciting to know I’ll be “seeing him” every Tuesday now.
So anyway – yesterday morning I got up very early. Having lost my little card with my appointment time on it, I decided to wing it and show up at 8:30 anyway. I knew I had an early appointment… perhaps 8:30..9…9:15…just not the exact time. (I always ask for an early time if it’s available.) It takes 30 minutes to get to the OBGYN office so I had my mom picked up and we were on the road all before 8 am. When we got there, I walked in and there was this lady I had never met at the window. Perhaps she was just a fill in? Well…I told her my name and asked what time my appointment was.
10:15 AM.
10:15 AM????
How could I have been that mistaken??
Back out at the car (it’s only 8:35 at this time), mom and I decide to head down the road and get some breakfast. With over an hour to kill, we had a nice long leisurly breakfast at “The Waffle House” and I got some reading in.
Then we headed back to the office, with me still wondering how I could have made such a mistake with my appointment time.
After check in at 10 am, they send me immediately back to “empty my bladder” (a requirement for the ultrasound) and then on to the waiting room where I sat maybe 5-10 minutes or so before the ultrasound tech came for me. Thankfully I didn’t have the same tech girl that I had last time during my 30 week scan (the one who only knew how to say official latin type words for his body parts). The older lady who had done my ultrasounds during my first trimester was back!
In the ultrasound room she started asking me if everything is ok. (OK? Of course it was! Why?) She was concerned because I was “late…and had missed the appointment”. Confused, I recounted the events of the morning – we were there at 8:30 am! Come to find out, the new lady at the front window had skipped over my ultrasound appointment and had only told me the time they had set for the actual OB visit with the doctor.
Great. So my actual appointment HAD been at 9:15 am. *sigh* Just like I thought…
Anyway. The “tummy ultrasound” went great! The video machine was recording fine, everything measured beautifully on the baby, heartrate was 140 BPM, and they confirmed once again that he definately was a boy. And they gave me a nice “turtle” picture to prove it. (My hubby is so proud).
She estimates his weight to be 4.2 LBS. His head is also “dropped” and was sitting very, very, very low in my neither regions. She also told me that his feet were slightly under my ribs.
As if I didn’t know that already! OUCH! 
After the ultrasound, I went to another room for my OB visit with Doctor Nancy and had my routine vitals done. My weight was 144 (yay! I haven’t lost any more!) and my blood pressure was 100 / 70. (That was great too! I have been running really low).
In the room with Dr. Nancy, she went over the results of my CBC blood test that was taken 2 weeks ago, along with the sugar test. Everything came out perfectly….iron levels, sugar count…everything. I was so relieved! The only slightly abnormal thing they mentioned was that baby Jack is a little small – but they consider that better than the alternative since I have gestational diabetes. Dr. Nancy said I seemed to be doing so great that I should be the poster child for pregnant women.
I don’t know about that, but it made me feel a whole lot better.
Then it was time to go. Whew! I had what I considered a perfect visit (well, beside the little mistaken appointment time fiasco). I felt like floating on air.
Tomorrow I have my first weekly NST (non-stress test) at the hospital at 9 am (I’ll report on that afterwords – I’m not sure what all to expect during the visit). Then I return to the OBGYN office next Tuesday morning at 8:30 am.
(Yes. 8:30 am. I’ve documented it here for safekeeping!)
Each week I’ll be continuing on in the same fashion – doctor visit on Tuesday, NST at the hospital on Thursday.
Oh, and Kevin and I have our Lamaze Baby Class at the hospital this Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm. We’re excited about that! Kevin is a bit more excited that I am, I do believe. He’s all into this being-a-daddy thing. It makes me quite proud to call him my husband.
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I had gestational diabetes also and got to do the weekly ultra-sound as well. Very exciting. Besides the finger pricking the diabetes was probably a small blessing. It definately kept me from packing on the pounds I would have had I not had to be conscience of what I was eating. Good luck!!