hospital every 2 weeks eek!

[sugarfreerach]

Hello! Well ive just turned 8 weeks which is fun apart from morning sickness etc but i'm secretly happy im having a normalish pregnancy. Went to hosp last week for the first of my many many 2 week visits and was there for 4 hours eek! Went in to the obstretrician first and she was annoyed and narky "where are your green notes?" me: I dont have any yet. obs: why not me: ive not met the midwife yet, im meeting her next wed. obs: you should always bring your green notes. me: thinking erm did you not hear what i said?!!! She then was really narky saying why are you here so early? Who booked this appointment. I said i'm type 1 diabetic, she then said well thats probably it then. Then we were scurried off somewhere me feeling like an absolute fraud, thinking i shouldnt be here! Then a nice nurse then filled out my green notes with me, and we were told to wait. I was weighed and blood pressure taken etc. Then told to wait again (if only we'd had an appointment....) and thankfully i never saw that woman again i saw another lady and she was soo nice! She said i wont see that other woman again until 13 weeks. Phew! Then had to queue to book another appointment and saw my DSN and she shouted across the waiting room-RACH! come and get your finger pricked! And honestly my whole body relaxed and i breathed a sigh of relief, the relief of someone who knows me and likes me! So anyway she did my Hba1c and is 6.4%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!woooooooooo!!!!! JAmes said they heard me in the waiting room! Anyway then i popped my head round the consultants office (my diabetic one) and he said congratulations!!! And i said " my hba1c?! I know!!!! And he said no the baby you dope! ha ha ha anyway after that i was a completely different woman. And ive got to do it alll again next week woop!So so glad they didnt offer me a scan i think i would've refused to be honest. The nurse looked at me a bit wierd when i asked if they did 7 week scans which i thought was odd, i though they were the norm for hgh risk?

 

[macast]

lovely to hear that it turned out well in the end.. after you got rid of the obstretrician

 

[sugarfreerach]

no i wont need her much will i?!!!

 

[xxlou_lxx]

mine was there nearly every week after i reached 28 weeks, he liked to make sure the growth scans were all niice and normal and just get u all prepared for impending birth hehe well we are high risk doncha know 🙄 xx

 

[Cate]

no i wont need her much will i?!!!

LOL at least she'll only do the baby bits! I always had joint appointments, Obgyn plus my diabetic consultant in the same room. Mostly I only spoke to the diabetic one though oh and they always had students in with them, and I always had to do a pump show and tell (as the first pumping t1 they'd had in antenatal...) and occasionally let them look at my eyes, which I'm told "look like downtown Baghdad in there" 😱 think that student needs lessons in diplomacy haha

 

[MrsCLH]

Isn't it unbelievable how one person's experience can be so different from anothers! My consultant couldn't wait to get me an appointment at ante-natal, I was only 4 weeks! And then they couldn't wait to scan me, even though I was only 6 weeks. I'm having another scan next Tues at 9 weeks and that will be my third, mad isn't it!

I've had the green notes conversation though, that made me smile