Knocked Up Rollcall

See....

ughhh maybe this is the appropriate thread to vent about our awful experience right now.

so at our first visit to the OB, my wife's blood pressure was v high. the med assistant pipes in "so you have chronic high blood pressure?" a: no, this is the first time this has ever happened. next visit, normal BP, but some sugar in the urine, leads same med assist to ask "so you are diabetic?" a: no. my wife then has to do a glucose test at our next visit. one flat orange medical soda later, no preexisting diabetes. but BP is high again.

we get a BP monitor to use at home and my wife's BP is always normal fine (110 to 115 over 60 to 70). it looks like a case of white coat hypertension induced by the anxiety of being at the doctor and fearing that something is wrong. we have a couple more visits in which my wife's BP is high everytime (always accompanied by aforementioned med asst saying "it's HIGH" in a very told ya so manner). our OB appeared open to the white coat hypothesis, but referred us to a specialist anyway. she insisted it would be a onetime consult if everything was it appears.

we go to the specialist and her BP is high again. nurse practitioner basically says we need to start seeing them weekly, condescending to us the entire time and completely breezing past our mountains of evidence of normal BP at home or in non-clinical settings and treating us as if (a) we don't know anything and (b) that my wife is some paragon of bad judgment and poor health. "this is for the health of the baby", really? no kidding, I've been laboring under the delusion that my child's health is unimportant, this is giving me something to think about hm hm FUCK off.

same visit, BP taken again after some time to chill. lower, but still high. second ultrasound in as many weeks reveals everything is fine with the baby which is exactly what we knew last week. BP taken a third time. normal. the actual doctor starts to backpedal a little realizing my wife is not chronically hypertensive which is what we've been saying for weeks. so maybe we don't need to come in every week, apparently, but she'd rly like us to come in every month or so. so my wife can collect her piss in a sunny D jug for 24 hours and have you tell us...that everything is fine?

god that's long

tldr version: motherfucking doctors can't listen for shit if that information gets in the way of billable services

ugh that sucks

btw my son is growing a little ahead of schedule and his heartbeat is normal. if we had never sought medical attention this entire time, we would be in the exact same position we are in now only without the stress and more ca$hed out.

that's awful. like it really makes me mad. also as a non-pregnant person i want to go to a doctor soon (i don't have one) but i have doctor anxiety and this kind of thing is why, thanks.

yeah it's completely unacceptable

to compound things, if we wanted to switch OBs now, it'd more difficult bc my wife has been labeled a "high risk" pregnancy which many doctors will not take at this pt.

I've been laboring under the delusion that my child's health is unimportant, this is giving me something to think about hm hm

I lol'd

High risk because of the blood pressure thing?

yes, and judged solely by her clinical BP results

'Sup.

Nice...welcome to the club!

What?????

lol

HUH

duh

Congrats and bestest wish!

Thank you! It is v. exciting.

FOR REALSIES?? xp Could not possibly happen to a nicer person(s).

For real! Thank you! That is a nice thing to say!

Oh - Due December 24. We've been sitting on the announcement pending the ultrasound where they make sure everything is extant and in the expected places, which I had this morning.

N/a otm and also yaaaaaaaaay

OMG SO EXCITING! Congrats, you will be one hell of a mama. I hope it is a giiiiiirl

I was being reasonable, really I just want to post "EEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeee!!!!!!" for the rest of the day.

awesome :D

can ILX name it, please? I can start a poll.

We haven't settled on a name so I guess we're open to suggestions.

Welcome little Suggest Ban Agatha!

Nedwina Winkyface Agatha

Aw!

!!!!! Congrats !!!!!

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR

zomg this is so awesome!!!!

please to name yr babby balmstain

Luscious Seduction Balmstain Agatha

oh damn! congratulations

Thanks, jg. <3

congrats on your preliminary admission to the club
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sucka :)

What?????

― Jeff, Monday, August 12, 2013 10:33 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

lol

congrats!!!!

lol @ jeff

I am still giggling at that.

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!

Is it totally bizarro being preggo y/n

quincie that still isn't spanish

congrats carl

to my credit, I managed to figure out the "are you pregnant or trying to get pregnant" boxes on the Spanish dental intake form, but only because I know the word "mujeres" from bathroom doors.

lol. also embarazadas from the subway right?

ha, you completely overestimate the transportation infrastructure of La Paz, much less La Ventana. I haven't been on a subway in a looooooooonog time

Carl may I suggest to you a baby shower concept to which I was once introduced. You get mostly naked on a table and your girlfriends drape like paper mache on your boobs and belly. The it dries and you have a cast of. . . your boobs and belly. Which maybe you want to hang on the wall as "art," or maybe you want to use as a way to serve chips and two dips.

to answer your previous question, yeah, it's pretty weird. It's also kind of gross and uncomfortable. But it's also fun in a way that I can't quite articulate. Aside from being nauseated daily, sometimes all day, and finding 95% of all food completely revolting for the first... 20 weeks (I'm 20 weeks 6 days, so I am only now enjoying the part where food is this wonderful life affirming substance that I actually want to smell and put in my mouth and boy it took some restraint not to complain about that on the internet let me tell you) I've had a pretty easy time of it, though, plus we've been trying to do this forEVARRRR so I'm not complaining.

In response to your shower suggestion, no.

that shower sounds o_O

I don't think that such things should be limited to pregnant women. I think birthday parties, retirement parties, housewarmings should all involve nude body-mold making and subsequent chip and dip service.

Yeah but you really need the 8- or 9-month preggo belly if you want to do the chips plus two dips thing. My cast would be like a tray (for cheese, I guess?) and then like a cup that fits a handful of chips and a cup that fits like 1 cup of dip. Good preggo belly can do a whole bag of Tostitos.