I went to my orientation at the new hospital yesterday and also managed to score an appointment with a nurse practitioner. She informed me that I will be having another big baby. Yippee!! Big babies are great because they sleep longer faster, but they have to come out first, which is not a yippee!
Anyways my next appointment is with a doctor who the nurse assured me would be more likely to listen to my inducement request than any of the male docs. So we will see how that goes.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Baby Saga
Okay, so as you can tell from the baby ticker I only have about six weeks to go. Which is a lot of time, but is not much time at all, all at the same time.
So here is my problem. I was supposed to have the baby onthe post where we are currently living. Unfortunately we, meaning the clinic and myself, are having some serious differences in opinion. The first is that they think it is okay not to have bathrooms in the hospital rooms and have everyone use a communal bathroom at the end of the hall. Too gross, just too gross. Then I spoke with a midwife who had the nerve to tell me that the size of the baby does not affect the amount of pain you are in during delivery. Obviously a woman who has never birthed a baby over 8 pounds. Let me tell you, after having a 10 pound baby without drugs, it makes a difference, a big painful difference.
I have been trying to convince midwives and doctors to induce me at 39 weeks and they all refuse saying that it will only increase my chance of a c-section. Well I was induced with C and it took only 5 hours beginning to baby. No one is listening to me. There have been a couple of other things, but I won't go into too much detail as the bottom line is that they are not listening.
Then I heard from someone at my husband's work that the clinic here will not intervene until you are over 42 weeks. My first thought is that it must be some kind of joke. If I had a 10 pound baby at 38 weeks, how big will my baby be at 43 weeks. Give me a break.
Sooooo, with only six weeks to go, I am switching clinics. It will be a much farther drive and I am running the risk of birthing our baby on the highway, but I think it is worth it. The only scary thing is that the can't fit me in for two weeks, which means I will be 36 weeks at my orientation appointment. Seems ridiculous, I mean how much more do I need to learn with my fourth baby. Any ways, I am anxious but I think I made the right decision. My biggest fear is laboring for 24 hours and then having a c-section because the baby is so big and gets stuck in the birth canal.
The new hospital has private rooms with there own bathrooms, what luxury!! Who knew Fort Sill would be the standard I would compare other posts too.
So here is my problem. I was supposed to have the baby onthe post where we are currently living. Unfortunately we, meaning the clinic and myself, are having some serious differences in opinion. The first is that they think it is okay not to have bathrooms in the hospital rooms and have everyone use a communal bathroom at the end of the hall. Too gross, just too gross. Then I spoke with a midwife who had the nerve to tell me that the size of the baby does not affect the amount of pain you are in during delivery. Obviously a woman who has never birthed a baby over 8 pounds. Let me tell you, after having a 10 pound baby without drugs, it makes a difference, a big painful difference.
I have been trying to convince midwives and doctors to induce me at 39 weeks and they all refuse saying that it will only increase my chance of a c-section. Well I was induced with C and it took only 5 hours beginning to baby. No one is listening to me. There have been a couple of other things, but I won't go into too much detail as the bottom line is that they are not listening.
Then I heard from someone at my husband's work that the clinic here will not intervene until you are over 42 weeks. My first thought is that it must be some kind of joke. If I had a 10 pound baby at 38 weeks, how big will my baby be at 43 weeks. Give me a break.
Sooooo, with only six weeks to go, I am switching clinics. It will be a much farther drive and I am running the risk of birthing our baby on the highway, but I think it is worth it. The only scary thing is that the can't fit me in for two weeks, which means I will be 36 weeks at my orientation appointment. Seems ridiculous, I mean how much more do I need to learn with my fourth baby. Any ways, I am anxious but I think I made the right decision. My biggest fear is laboring for 24 hours and then having a c-section because the baby is so big and gets stuck in the birth canal.
The new hospital has private rooms with there own bathrooms, what luxury!! Who knew Fort Sill would be the standard I would compare other posts too.
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