I found a heartbeat on my Doppler just now. 9 weeks tomorrow! I am over the moon. I’ve been trying just about every other day for the past week and a half or so and finally found it. It was much higher than I was initially looking. My symptoms vanished this last week so I have been a ball of nerves.
TTC History:
Started dating DH 2006 . Married 2015
TTC July 2015-November 2015
BFP November 2015 Baby boy born August 2016
Oops BFP February 2021 MMC March 2021
Back on BC for a year to decide what we want to do.
@potato3000 I really hope so too, just gotta get through 2.5 days till I can hopefully get some reassurance. I wish I could have stayed at my fertility clinic, the entire staff there was so amazing and competent and I always left feeling cared for. Too bad they only care for pregnant patients until 8 weeks! I know I'll feel the same about the midwives I'm going to start seeing again on Monday if I make it past the hurdle.
@thescarletmom I hope that's what it is, just mistakes and neglegence, if I'm still measuring 8 weeks next week I'm going to lose it. I effed up royally by even trying that clinic. All in the name of thyroid care but I definitely wished I wouldn't have tried them at all with everything that's happened. I don't mind measuring smaller further along, but 9 days is a lot this early on. I'm just crossing my fingers it works out okay on Monday. The nurse told me that it's a bad idea to get ultrasounds at two different places because this situation always happens and it's like excuse me, but no it doesn't. I got ultrasounds at three different places with my last pregnancy, every single one of them was consistent with my dates, so 🙄
@kalesix3 well thank god at least someone there was competent enough to actually look into it finally! Too little too late, but you’ll be at your clinic next week and hopefully things will be better!
Early ultrasounds are the worst sometimes! My son, who’s 14 months now, was a missed miscarriage according to my first ultrasound with him…and obviously that wasn’t the case. I’m hoping this is just something similar!
@kalesix3 I'll be thinking of you all weekend. I hope your next ultrasound gives you peace and that everything is fine. Though I'd never hope that a clinic is just negligent, in this case I do. I'm so sorry for the stress you're experiencing!
@kalesix3 It sounds so much to me like baby is doing amazing in there, and that this place you went was just absolute garbage. Finding the heartbeat yourself with a Doppler seems impossible to me if baby was too small. Not that I know much. But finding it at 9 weeks without knowing what you’re doing already sounds difficult, let alone if the heartbeat was weak or something.
Idk. I will pray for a very distracting weekend, in a good way. ❤️❤️
Oh yikes @cassafrass123 how absolutely terrifying for you, I'm so sorry that happened and I'm so glad they were wrong 😭 first ultrasounds are already so scary without hearing that. I would probably be a little less stressed out if this was my first or was super early but I'm 9 weeks and just the last week is when they're saying the baby stopped growing if their ultrasound really is right. But interestingly enough my gestational sac is measuring smaller than at my 8 week scan, which I know has to be a mistake so I'm hoping everything else is too. The fact that the nurse was really concerned too and wanted to do a repeat scan helps me not feel so crazy for having bad anxiety.
@hitcj4687 I reeeeeally hope they're just negligent too, it would make sense since all my other care there was a dumpster fire. I made the mistake of googling small gestational sac odds and saw it's an %80 chance of miscarriage, I'm not sure how much behind the dates have to be but the cutoff was at 9 weeks so I'm just keeping my fingers crossed and waiting for Monday.. I really did think it looked like the baby had grown on the scan on Monday.. I originally was happy to see the heartbeat slowed down by a little like it normally does further along but now I'm second guessing everything. 😩
Not about babies at all, but every Saturday my oldest (6) has sports and there’s a kid on her team whose parents switch custody at practice. They’re trying really hard to get along and they sit and talk to each other every week…and if you’re far enough away it looks really great, but if you’re up close you can hear them and they just argue the whole time. I hope the best for them, but I also low key live for the drama every week. This week the issue is that the kid’s backpack smells like fish and how did that happen
I'm exhausted!! I volunteered to work a fight for my gym, selling and checking tickets at the door and I was on my feet from 230-930pm last night. I volunteered before I was pregnant but didn't want to back out of it and leave them without the help. But the amount of people that kept coming over to me from my gym offering me food was awesome! Lol. I also came home and finished all my leftovers from the Mexican restaurant I ordered from on Friday. Now ordering breakfast.... who am I?!
@hitcj4687 That's awesome! I'm only volunteering at our rink kitchen for 3hrs this morning and packing food -- plus food will be available to me to order the whole time haha
@kalesix3 1 more day to go! I'm really hoping for a midwife again this pregnancy too. There aren't many covering the area we live in but I lucked out with one the first two times and I've heard that having one prior helps ensure you get one again so hoping I hear from them by the end of this month -- I have no clue where to start in finding an OB if I need to 😆
@cassafrass123 as someone who shares custody of my oldest (also 6!) there's nothing crazier to me than the way other coparents will air their dirty laundry fully in public. Props to them for putting in effort, but if your in person discussions cause tension, text about it.
@potato3000 yes one more day! I really hope you can see a midwife again, I love that if you got one before you have more likelihood of getting one again. I wouldn't know the first thing about picking an OB practice, I guess I'd ask a local mom's group and try to find ones that delivered at a hospital I liked? Fortunately for me the MFM Obs I saw last pregnancy and will see this time are affiliated with the birth center so I didn't have to find them on my own and they're all absolutely phenomenal, so supportive and kind and not just treating me like an unstable specimen after I was classified high risk. The clinic I just left had a mix of OBs and CNMs though, is that what your practice is like too? I hope your volunteering goes amazing this morning!
Also I hit the double digit milestone today! 10 weeks 🥰🥳 let's just hope baby is still doing okay and hanging in there. 🤞🏻 Is anyone else really anxious to feel baby flutters? I felt my first around 15/16 weeks and my second at 11 weeks and I confirmed the flutters were real because I saw baby kicking on the ultrasound at the same time as I felt flutters and the sonographer was like did you feel that?!? I think I get earlier flutters because of the way I carry so I'm hopeful next week I can start feeling a few kicks here and there.
@kalesix3 I felt my son moving around 16/17 weeks and was reading about second time baby being felt around 12 weeks!! So cool you got to start feeling that at 11 weeks. I hope for some early flutters!! I'll be 9 weeks on tuesday!
@hitcj4687 I remember reading that too! I was the earliest ftm in my group at the time to get flutters before 20 weeks but I'm really glad it was earlier for my anxiety, and the 12 week ballpark for movement with the second baby sounds right to me! I hope the next few weeks you start feeling some too!
@kalesix3 I feel like this pregnancy is going quite fast. I found out really early at 4 weeks 2 days. And I'll be 9 on Tuesday already! I'm so excited for those first little flutters!
@hitcj4687 same! I feel like it's flying by, such a difference from last time. I felt like I spent the first few weeks holding my breath last time but having a two year old makes the days extra short now 🥲 I found out at 7dpo last pregnancy which probably didn't help time fly lol. I was 10dpo this time and having an appointment the day I tested really helped speed things along. I hope flutters are right around the corner for you! 🤞🏻
@kalesix3 We're almost due date twins! Haha, you must be due the 4th? I was 10 weeks on Saturday.
Volunteering was great, I actually had a moment of panic though because I was feeling so much better than I have been but I've been laid out again since supper now so I'm just very grateful for the relief today now while it lasted!
The midwives here have their own clinic/section in one of the hospitals for appointments and stuff but they are certified to aid with deliveries at any of the 3 hospitals -- or homebirths, no birthing center just for them here though unfortunately. My first two were homebirths (first was actually a crazy birth story and I wouldn't have made it to a hospital if I had tried -- my husband literally never even made it downstairs to start filling the tub and back up before DS was born in the shower -- just him and I 😆 Thank god there were no complications for either of us!) but we're 90min away from a birthing hospital now (we lived right in the city for my first two) so my plan is to go to the hospital this time just to be safe if there were any complications. My second birth was quite fast too though so it's a slight concern we might not make it anywhere in time anyways whether I have another midwife or an OB haha. We'll see! I'll definitely be asking around for recommendations if I do end up needing an OB and already know which hospital is my preference.
@kalesix3@hitcj4687 I found out at 8dpo last time and like 4w3 this time (hitcj4687, I think you're due the day before me because I'm 9w on Wed!) I feel like time drags on and on when you find out so early! With DS1 I felt my first kicks at like 13/14 weeks! I had a posterior (?) placenta that time (whichever is the one where it's behind baby) and a very small torso so I felt him super early compared to all the other FTMs. Then with DS2 I had an anterior placenta so I actually was further along, maybe 16 weeks before I felt him. That was nervewracking because I just assumed it was posterior again, but the sono tech confirmed it wasn't at my anatomy scan and it all made sense. I'm curious to see when I feel this baby and hope its soon! Its my favorite part of pregnancy.
@potato3000 my two homebirths were soo quick too! DS1 was 6.5 hours and DS2 was 3 😱 I was in denial i was in labor and if my husband hadn't insisted on calling the midwife when I told him not to he would have been born before they got there haha.
@potato3000 yes I'm due the 4th! We're nearly twins! Congratulations on making the 10 week milestone this weekend too! I'm glad volunteering went so well and that you got some reassurance your symptoms are still there, it's so anxiety inducing when you don't feel anything for a period of time and your mind starts racing with worse case scenario 😩 It's really awesome that the midwives can deliver at home or the hospital, do you know if you can just call them when you're in labor if it starts going too fast to make it to the hospital? There's a birth center I really love in another city but it's an hour away and with my last labor being 3 hours I'm too scared to even try. I'm obsessively checking distance and roads to hospitals and birth centers where we're house hunting so I make sure we don't move too far away from somewhere good which is so specific of a house hunting restriction and also slightly ridiculous and stressful but here we are. I'm envious of how quick your first labor went, that's a dream come true to me since mine went so horribly off the rails but I bet yours wasn't all sunshine and roses doing it accidentally solo like you did, I think you're a major badass 😍 I hope you get all the options for whichever way this labor goes! When will you meet with the midwives?
@thescarletmom time definitely drags when you find out so early, but at the same time my anxiety would never let me wait till my missed period, I only tested at 10dpo this time because I truly thought there was no chance and I was done having babies for good with my endocrinologist being pretty adamant I wouldn't conceive without IVF 💔 glad I proved her wrong. I always wanted to experience a posterior placenta! They seem really cool for a variety of reasons, but if the sonographer is right I have my third fundal baby right at the top of my uterus. 😆 It'll be so interesting to see how you're carrying this time. I'm such a nerd over all the details. 😂
On a totally different topic, truly a random. Where is everyone going to shop for Christmas pajamas from? (If you celebrate or do themed pj's) I'm so indecisive I'm looking at a ton of different places and wondered what everyone else was going to get!
@kalesix3 I totally get it, I'm not the type to wait the 14 days. It was neat to have the posterior with DS1 because I felt like I could feel every little thing he did all the time! His movements were so visible through my belly by the time I was 20-25 weeks.
Re: holiday jammies, we've done target and Hanna Anderson in the past. Can't say I really felt like the price was worth it for the Hanna Andersons though I know some people love them. I've seen some cute ones from Old Navy this year and thinking I might try those!
@kalesix3 I bought Christmas jammies from target this year. I’ve done Carters, Childrens Place, and Honest Co in the past. The quality is fine, nothing too special, but I think comparable across the brands.
@thescarletmom omg ugh. Working on something you know nothing about that far into the process is its own kind of frustration. I am the only paralegal at my (also very small) firm and it is ROUGH. All of that stuff lands on me. We have three attorneys. Some days it sucks bad. But, they treat me well and I really don't have room to complain. However, I do have an assistant that does things like binders. But me being so type A, I usually end up at least assembling them for her to then punch and put in. Also, I can totally relate to the fact that our jobs just can't be totally remote. They just can not. People always ask why I just can't work from home more and I need to be like, you don't get it. I can't make 10000000 copies at my house for trial or scan 400 page deposition transcripts or mail out 15 notices to attend without loosing my mind at home. It just is not possible.
TTC History:
Started dating DH 2006 . Married 2015
TTC July 2015-November 2015
BFP November 2015 Baby boy born August 2016
Oops BFP February 2021 MMC March 2021
Back on BC for a year to decide what we want to do.
@kalesix3 I'm sure they would come meet us wherever we are if I go into labour and feel things are moving very quickly again, there is a health centre just 30min from here so 1hr from the midwives that a friend of mine actually ended up delivering at a few weeks ago even they're not technically equipped for labour and delivery. I was told I'd likely hear back from them by mid to end of November if I'm able to get a midwife
Haha, I was just looking at family Christmas jammies last night but I've never got them before so have no recommendations
@ReadyForaB exaaaactly. The worst part is I got the binders probably 75% ready and came in early this morning to finish them. Well I guess my coworker came in over the weekend to finish them?? She was testing negative for covid when she did but I think I still have trauma from the beginning of the pandemic and I'm so weirded out that she came back so quickly. The real problem though is that she is in her late 60s/early 70s and does stuff in the worst/confusing/irritating way possible a lot of the times so I hate doing projects together with her. She does great work keeping the office running and all that but if we are both actively working on something it drives me bananas.
It does suck that some days, I could work remotely and it wouldn't be a big deal. But other days my job simply couldn't be done at all remotely. Thankfully they provide us a work laptop to use from home if we do occasionally work remote, but usually us paralegals are always in the office. The attorneys? In and out as they please of course
@thescarletmom yep, same. We all get at home laptops and printers when the pandemic hit so we can if we have to (and I usually do on the weekends) but I could not do that full time. And I can relate on people having their own way of doing things. I had a job at a huge law firm before this one with probably 25 paralegals. I am the only one now and, while it is a little more stressful at times, it is also a little calmer bc I run my own ship. Now, what they will do when I tell them about this pregnancy, I have no idea. They have no official maternity policy and haven't had a pregnant women in 15+ years haha. But I know they will make sure I am taken care of. The horrible thing - We do something at our office that has major deadlines of August 1st and September 1st. So, I really think I will be working through my leave a bit. We almost stopped TTC to avoid this but then I figured, f it. It will all work out if it happens.
TTC History:
Started dating DH 2006 . Married 2015
TTC July 2015-November 2015
BFP November 2015 Baby boy born August 2016
Oops BFP February 2021 MMC March 2021
Back on BC for a year to decide what we want to do.
@kalesix3 I usually go through Burt's bees for Christmas pjs but I don't like any of their patterns this year. So, I have no idea! Also looking for recs!
TTC History:
Started dating DH 2006 . Married 2015
TTC July 2015-November 2015
BFP November 2015 Baby boy born August 2016
Oops BFP February 2021 MMC March 2021
Back on BC for a year to decide what we want to do.
@kalesix3 oh yeah, there's a few attorneys here with kids around my kids ages, but they're all men. I have zero idea what to expect in the way of maternity leave, as I'm not sure they've ever had a pregnant employee if I think about it... I'm sure they'll treat me well (they dropped everything to give me time off when I was really sick) but also a little nervous still.
@thescarletmom I just found out today that I have the posterior placenta forming!! The ultrasound tech said it's very likely that I'll be feeling flutters early this time around! Due date is June 13th but they're thinking more like June 16th because baby is just a few days behind (which they weren't concerned about)
@hitcj4687 ahhh the flutters!! Could be just a few weeks! I think I'll definitely be able to feel baby by the end of the year regardless of posterior or anterior, but I'm so impatient for it to start. My EDD is 6/14, but both my sons were early (and one I know for sure when I ovulated so I know his due date was accurate!) so I'm expecting it will be sooner. DH reaaallly doesn't want a birthday buddy though (he's 6/10) so we'll see haha. He was just teasing me about how DS2 was born 10 days after our first anniversary and now this baby is trying to share a birthday!
I can't make this up, but this morning when I called my old clinic to try to get the ball rolling on faxing over my records to my midwives because they never called me back when they said they'd do it last week. The front desk said wait a minute and transferred my call over to the office manager who told me they couldn't release my records until I told her why I'd left them a bad review in the confidential appointment survey. Lol. Okay just hold my records hostage why don't you. That's nice and professional 🙄 anyways hopefully I gave them enough details. I've never left a bad review before but they definitely deserved everything I had to say.
@kalesix3 I'm sorry, what? They refused to release your records because you said mean stuff to them through an internal message system?? Giiiiirl I am so happy you called it quits there ❤️
@kalesix3 sorry, but what the fuck????? I've NEVER heard of anything like that in my LIFE! WHAT IN THE WORLD! further solidifying your decision to seek treatment elsewhere. What a bunch of psychos!
@thescarletmom@hitcj4687@ReadyForaB It was so crazy, on one hand I appreciate the effort behind actually wanting to know why a patient of yours was so dissatisfied, but maybe choose more neutral words next time. Like how about "yes I'll fax your release of records form over as soon as we get off the phone and have those records faxed to your new office, while I have you on the phone though do you want to discuss the review you left on the survey portal, or anything you'd like us to know about your experience?" Like that way I would have felt much more welcome to share instead of being told I either sit through your inquisition about my review of my care or I don't get records released. Like you can't refuse to fax over my records lol. I was tempted to go mama bear on them but I'm tired of the endless drama so I just told her as generally as I could that my experience and everyone I dealt with was horrible and afterwards she said she'd get to work faxing my things over to the midwives so at least for now it's over. Hopefully they don't bill me wrong or something 🙄 I haven't had my scan yet, it's not till later this afternoon 😩 I'm so anxious.
@kalesix3 I am literally so angry for you, like good lord I didn't think it could get any worse and then they threaten to hold your records hostage like a bunch of 10 year olds. I had so much scanxiety last week, I totally understand ❤️ I can't wait for you to get in and have a GOOD scan and see your little belly bean boppin' around.
Omg you all everything is okay with baby 😭😭 I got my scan and had the best appointment with my midwife. She struggled to see the baby abdominally because my uterus is retroverted but transvaginal worked like a charm and she found it right away. Perfect and moving and grown so much since last time. Measuring exactly at 10 weeks and not a mmc like I was so afraid of. I was even allowed to record the ultrasound so I have a video of little babe dancing all around 🥲 wow what a relief after the last few days. I didn't even have to beg them to do a rescan, as soon as I explained what I was going through they immediately brought in the ultrasound machine. 🥲 My appointment was 2 hours long making up for all the things my old clinic didn't do for me and cancelled on. It feels good to be back in good hands.
Re: Weekly randoms 10/31
TTC July 2015-November 2015
Baby boy born August 2016
Oops BFP February 2021
MMC March 2021
Back on BC for a year to decide what we want to do.
TTC Since March 2022
MMC June 2022
BFP September 2022 - Due June 2023!
@thescarletmom I hope that's what it is, just mistakes and neglegence, if I'm still measuring 8 weeks next week I'm going to lose it.
I effed up royally by even trying that clinic. All in the name of thyroid care but I definitely wished I wouldn't have tried them at all with everything that's happened. I don't mind measuring smaller further along, but 9 days is a lot this early on. I'm just crossing my fingers it works out okay on Monday. The nurse told me that it's a bad idea to get ultrasounds at two different places because this situation always happens and it's like excuse me, but no it doesn't. I got ultrasounds at three different places with my last pregnancy, every single one of them was consistent with my dates, so 🙄
Early ultrasounds are the worst sometimes! My son, who’s 14 months now, was a missed miscarriage according to my first ultrasound with him…and obviously that wasn’t the case. I’m hoping this is just something similar!
I would probably be a little less stressed out if this was my first or was super early but I'm 9 weeks and just the last week is when they're saying the baby stopped growing if their ultrasound really is right. But interestingly enough my gestational sac is measuring smaller than at my 8 week scan, which I know has to be a mistake so I'm hoping everything else is too. The fact that the nurse was really concerned too and wanted to do a repeat scan helps me not feel so crazy for having bad anxiety.
@hitcj4687 I reeeeeally hope they're just negligent too, it would make sense since all my other care there was a dumpster fire. I made the mistake of googling small gestational sac odds and saw it's an %80 chance of miscarriage, I'm not sure how much behind the dates have to be but the cutoff was at 9 weeks so I'm just keeping my fingers crossed and waiting for Monday..
I really did think it looked like the baby had grown on the scan on Monday.. I originally was happy to see the heartbeat slowed down by a little like it normally does further along but now I'm second guessing everything. 😩
The clinic I just left had a mix of OBs and CNMs though, is that what your practice is like too?
I hope your volunteering goes amazing this morning!
Is anyone else really anxious to feel baby flutters? I felt my first around 15/16 weeks and my second at 11 weeks and I confirmed the flutters were real because I saw baby kicking on the ultrasound at the same time as I felt flutters and the sonographer was like did you feel that?!?
I think I get earlier flutters because of the way I carry so I'm hopeful next week I can start feeling a few kicks here and there.
I found out at 7dpo last pregnancy which probably didn't help time fly lol. I was 10dpo this time and having an appointment the day I tested really helped speed things along. I hope flutters are right around the corner for you! 🤞🏻
Volunteering was great, I actually had a moment of panic though because I was feeling so much better than I have been but I've been laid out again since supper now so I'm just very grateful for the relief today now while it lasted!
The midwives here have their own clinic/section in one of the hospitals for appointments and stuff but they are certified to aid with deliveries at any of the 3 hospitals -- or homebirths, no birthing center just for them here though unfortunately. My first two were homebirths (first was actually a crazy birth story and I wouldn't have made it to a hospital if I had tried -- my husband literally never even made it downstairs to start filling the tub and back up before DS was born in the shower -- just him and I 😆 Thank god there were no complications for either of us!) but we're 90min away from a birthing hospital now (we lived right in the city for my first two) so my plan is to go to the hospital this time just to be safe if there were any complications. My second birth was quite fast too though so it's a slight concern we might not make it anywhere in time anyways whether I have another midwife or an OB haha. We'll see! I'll definitely be asking around for recommendations if I do end up needing an OB and already know which hospital is my preference.
@potato3000 my two homebirths were soo quick too! DS1 was 6.5 hours and DS2 was 3 😱 I was in denial i was in labor and if my husband hadn't insisted on calling the midwife when I told him not to he would have been born before they got there haha.
It's really awesome that the midwives can deliver at home or the hospital, do you know if you can just call them when you're in labor if it starts going too fast to make it to the hospital? There's a birth center I really love in another city but it's an hour away and with my last labor being 3 hours I'm too scared to even try. I'm obsessively checking distance and roads to hospitals and birth centers where we're house hunting so I make sure we don't move too far away from somewhere good which is so specific of a house hunting restriction and also slightly ridiculous and stressful but here we are.
I'm envious of how quick your first labor went, that's a dream come true to me since mine went so horribly off the rails but I bet yours wasn't all sunshine and roses doing it accidentally solo like you did, I think you're a major badass 😍
I hope you get all the options for whichever way this labor goes! When will you meet with the midwives?
@thescarletmom time definitely drags when you find out so early, but at the same time my anxiety would never let me wait till my missed period, I only tested at 10dpo this time because I truly thought there was no chance and I was done having babies for good with my endocrinologist being pretty adamant I wouldn't conceive without IVF 💔 glad I proved her wrong.
I always wanted to experience a posterior placenta! They seem really cool for a variety of reasons, but if the sonographer is right I have my third fundal baby right at the top of my uterus. 😆 It'll be so interesting to see how you're carrying this time. I'm such a nerd over all the details. 😂
Re: holiday jammies, we've done target and Hanna Anderson in the past. Can't say I really felt like the price was worth it for the Hanna Andersons though I know some people love them. I've seen some cute ones from Old Navy this year and thinking I might try those!
TTC July 2015-November 2015
Baby boy born August 2016
Oops BFP February 2021
MMC March 2021
Back on BC for a year to decide what we want to do.
TTC Since March 2022
MMC June 2022
BFP September 2022 - Due June 2023!
Haha, I was just looking at family Christmas jammies last night but I've never got them before so have no recommendations
It does suck that some days, I could work remotely and it wouldn't be a big deal. But other days my job simply couldn't be done at all remotely. Thankfully they provide us a work laptop to use from home if we do occasionally work remote, but usually us paralegals are always in the office. The attorneys? In and out as they please of course
TTC July 2015-November 2015
Baby boy born August 2016
Oops BFP February 2021
MMC March 2021
Back on BC for a year to decide what we want to do.
TTC Since March 2022
MMC June 2022
BFP September 2022 - Due June 2023!
TTC July 2015-November 2015
Baby boy born August 2016
Oops BFP February 2021
MMC March 2021
Back on BC for a year to decide what we want to do.
TTC Since March 2022
MMC June 2022
BFP September 2022 - Due June 2023!
TTC July 2015-November 2015
Baby boy born August 2016
Oops BFP February 2021
MMC March 2021
Back on BC for a year to decide what we want to do.
TTC Since March 2022
MMC June 2022
BFP September 2022 - Due June 2023!
It was so crazy, on one hand I appreciate the effort behind actually wanting to know why a patient of yours was so dissatisfied, but maybe choose more neutral words next time. Like how about "yes I'll fax your release of records form over as soon as we get off the phone and have those records faxed to your new office, while I have you on the phone though do you want to discuss the review you left on the survey portal, or anything you'd like us to know about your experience?" Like that way I would have felt much more welcome to share instead of being told I either sit through your inquisition about my review of my care or I don't get records released. Like you can't refuse to fax over my records lol. I was tempted to go mama bear on them but I'm tired of the endless drama so I just told her as generally as I could that my experience and everyone I dealt with was horrible and afterwards she said she'd get to work faxing my things over to the midwives so at least for now it's over. Hopefully they don't bill me wrong or something 🙄
I haven't had my scan yet, it's not till later this afternoon 😩 I'm so anxious.
I got my scan and had the best appointment with my midwife. She struggled to see the baby abdominally because my uterus is retroverted but transvaginal worked like a charm and she found it right away. Perfect and moving and grown so much since last time. Measuring exactly at 10 weeks and not a mmc like I was so afraid of. I was even allowed to record the ultrasound so I have a video of little babe dancing all around 🥲 wow what a relief after the last few days.
I didn't even have to beg them to do a rescan, as soon as I explained what I was going through they immediately brought in the ultrasound machine. 🥲 My appointment was 2 hours long making up for all the things my old clinic didn't do for me and cancelled on. It feels good to be back in good hands.