It's just a routine appointment, check my urine, BP and listen to the HR of my belly monster, so maybe I should just keep my mouth shut and not even try and discuss the birth with her and wait for my Obstetric Consultant appointment?
She's annoyed me greatly, she is supposed to be dealing with vulnerable people, and all she has done is push me into a pit of despair and anxiety about the birth. I feel I am not being listened to and that I am being treated like a 'mental woman' because of my Bipolar and that I can't make my own informed decisions surrounding the birth of MY baby and what happens to MY body.
I am having some real problems with my back and pelvis. If I am standing for too long, or do too much, I have really bad pains. Mum bought me an amazing pillow- its like a memory foam cube with two U shapes cut out either side to place between my legs, it keeps my pelvis open slightly and eases a lot of the pain. I think it may be where I have got so big, so quickly. Although my growth spurt seems to be levelling out now. Here's my 15 week pic
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I almost gave myself a heart attack last week. I was at my friends (the MW) and as is usual, needed to go for my hourly wee. I went for a wee, wiped and it was pink on the toilet roll, I looked down the loo and it was a really dark pink. I stood in her bathroom and screamed for her to come and look. My heart dropped out of my arse, I was all snot and tears. She was very very calm and said I may have a UTI or dehydrated. She asked me what I had drunk today, so I told her. Then she asked me what I had eaten, so I reeled off a list of what I had eaten (another story about this is to come!!) and when I got to my afternoon snack - 'Crackers with.............Ohhhhhhhh, that's what it will be!! BEETROOT!!'
I have never had this happen with beetroot before! Never from a wee anyway!! I felt so stupid standing there creaming with snot and tears, all because I ate some beetroot!!
A word of warning, NEVER EVER LET YOUR DH READ INFORMATION LEAFLETS!!!
Bongo was very nearly in hospital having his face reattached after his little comment the other night!! So as I have said, my blood glucose levels are playing up, and I have trouble eating too much at once, so I am eating very healthily, but little and often. Bongo came home from work one day and I had all my leaflets out to cut out all the money off coupons and free gifts from the maternity pack. He came across a leaflets about Healthy Eating During Pregnancy, he perused it, and said nothing else on the matter. Later on that evening, we were in bed and my pelvis was playing up, so I kind of nudged him and said 'it really hurts' and he replied 'you eat too much' I was absolutely gobsmacked!! So a massive argument ensues, and it turns out he had read the leaflets and it suggests I eat 3 proper meals a day! Well he has taken that as written in stone. I had to carefully explain to the dumbass, that if he actually looks at what and when I'm eating I certainly am NOT eating too much!! It just looks that way. If my pelvis wasn't playing up so much, I could quite easily have lost the plot. As it was, I just sat there, absolutely gobsmacked that my lovely sweet Bongo could say this to me. Kind of ironic coming from him anyway, as any of my girls who know me/him, will understand!!!
Anyway, I will update on my appointment with Hells own MW tomorrow.
I'd say wait until your OB appointment. Obviously she's a nitwit and there's no reason to cause yourself undue stress.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I had a very good laugh over the eating thing, lol. Men, lol.