Dr Appt

Wednesday, January 16, 2008


gack, brian thinks my doctor is a total jerk. I'm reserving judgment. he had a lot of hard things to say and he didn't always phrase things as kindly as he could, but i need him to be a great doc for my babies. great bedside manner doesn't always come with that. we'll see how he is when we get to know eachother better.

he told us that we were looking at a whole bunch of possible troubles and complications. the biggest one is just preterm labor before the babies are ready. 24 weeks is the magic number we need to get past. the next biggest is that it looked like 2 were in the same sac. so they could get tangled in each other's cords which has many bad outcomes. the 2 are probably sharing a placenta too which can cause complications. the other possibilities he was concerned were 3 times the chance of preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, etc. He said if I get preeclampsia this time that I would be spending time in the hospital. he also took time to point out that i was going to be massively gigantic and uncomfortable for a lot of the pregnancy, thank you. He actually said, "You are going to be huge, really big. And pretty uncomfortable for most of this pregnancy. You won't see your feet, you probably won't see your knees." He's just a little a little ball of sunshine. He told me our odds were 50/50. When I started crying he told me not to worry. That I should let him worry. Freaking hilarious.

I hope he'll have better things to say at our next appointment. Hopefully he just wanted to get the bad stuff out of the way and try to scare me into doing what I'm supposed to. Ick. I miss Dr Patrick.

Our next appt is Feb 8th. We will have an ultrasound and an appt once a month until things get more dicey, then it will be every 2 weeks or more. We'll do what we have to and hope for the best.

Well, gotta go make supper for the rugrats. ttyl!
Mel