- Pregnancy
- Baby & Toddler
- Parents
- Getting Pregnant
- Baby Names
- Product Reviews
-
Registry
- Community
-
More
Want a personalized experience?
Download the free app
2nd Trimester
My "BIG" ultrasound rant/vent!
Heres the thing: DH is away at a training program for a job with the state police. He is there M-F and he ONLY comes home on the weekends. I was hoping to schedule my anatomy scan/big ultrasound for a Saturday, but my Drs office is only open M-F and the hospital that my dr delivers out of has a fetal imaging center and they only do scans M-F. DH cannot miss a day, and he gets home late fridays.
I'm hoping to have my dr write me script to take to another hospital and have the scan done on a Saturday. I work at a hospital and they do scans on Saturdsays so I'm hoping to come here, but I will not be delivering here.
Just wanted to vent.
Oh and also, DH graduates on October 19th, and we were thinking about waiting until he graduated, but the scan HAS to be done by 22wks and I'll be 22wks on Oct 4th! 
And we thought about doing a gender reveal, but neither of us are really into that, we still might though!
Vent over. Thanks for listening! 
Warning
No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
This discussion has been closed.
Re: My "BIG" ultrasound rant/vent!
I'm not sure what your rant is. You can't get a scheduled time for an u/s you don't need, so your doctor is helpfully writing you an unnecessary script that you can bring to another hospital, to use up their time and resources without real cause? I fail to see your problem.
No, I didn't get that....she's ranting that her DH's schedule doesn't work. The script will enable her to go to a place that does them on Saturday's, still the same A/S, within the time frame she needs it.
OP, if you can't go to the one that does it on Saturdays in time, go with a close friend or family member, and have an elective one later on with DH when his schedule permits.
I'm pretty sure most OB's require an anatomy scan. But, I do agree with your point about writing scripts for hospitals and stuff. Just go to the a/s, and record what you see with your phone. Unfortunately, work trumps an ultrasound, and making your doctor jump through hoops for your spouse is ridiculous.
5 Angels
I took the whole post to mean she is worried about the "big reveal" aka finding out baby's sex, since she mentions it at the bottom. My bad.
I agree with others that it seems pointless to completely go out of your way to have a Saturday appointment somewhere else.
What if you do the a/s on your own M-F, but have the dr write down the sex and fold it up (it sounds like you want to know the sex of the baby). When DH is home on the weekend you can open it up together and find out at the same time? Like a sex reveal, but only for the two of you? I would suggest a Friday appointment so you only have to wait 1 day! Maybe the Dr. can print out a profile picture of the baby to show your hubs, too.
I DO need the U/S. Its the anatomy scan done between 18-22wks. I'm venting because DH can't be there due to scheduling conflicts. I don't understand that you don't understand....
This makes sense.
This is exactly what I was going to suggest. Don't go crazy trying to get a Saturday u/s, it's just going to frustrate you. Have your Dr. print out a pic with a circle/arrow/whatever pointing to the sex, and you two can make it a night together. I think that's more special, honestly. I'd rather get that kind of surprise in private so we can be extra mushy, rather than in a drs office.
Haha I LOLed. Thanks for the input, everyone!
Eli 6.18.09 35.5w
Silas 1.25.13 35.4w 10 days NICU, allergies/asthma, gluten intolerant