Attitude adjustment
Posted by Alli on November 2, 2008
As far as pregnancy goes, I’ve hit week 25 and tomorrow I head to the doctor for my monthly check-up. It will also be the fun glucose test pregnant women love. I personally had no problem drinking the orange syrup last pregnancy, so I don’t expect to have any problems this time around. Then again, I didn’t think my placenta would decide to take up residence over my cervix, so who knows?
I didn’t blog about my last doctor’s visit because it was kind of upsetting. While I was a good girl and didn’t google placenta previa, my doctor gave me the worst case scenarios I probably would have read if I had tried to look it up on the internet. And all he gave me were the worst case scenarios. He didn’t try it to give me a silver lining (which would have been something along the lines of “Hey, it’s still early in your pregnancy and the previa is probably going to move.”) and I felt like he was ready to go ahead and schedule a c-section in February. When I would recount the visit to my friends and family, I called him Dr. Doom and Gloom, because really I felt it was all he was giving me.
My diagnosis lead to the cancellation of a trip to Texas and two weeks of a bit of bad mood for me. Then I started thinking about things my own body was telling me, such as how the baby likes to kick down. If the placenta was still blocking things down there, then I think I wouldn’t feel the cervical tap dance of the baby boy inside of me.
I decided to change my attitude and proceed as if I will be able to do things normally (as opposed to the delicate state I have found myself in this last month and half) before the end of this pregnancy. And while I am still upset about postponing my trip to Texas, I’ll get there eventually. We have to wait until a follow up ultrasound on the 18th to get permission to travel for Thanksgiving to see Damon’s side of the family (and my sisters!). But I’m proceeding as if we get to go. I need the positive attitude right now.
And now that I’ve spilled all this on the internet, let’s see if I have the courage to tell it to my doctor tomorrow. I think he needs an attitude adjustment himself. And if he doesn’t think so, maybe I’ll make him drink the sickly sweet orange syrup.
[tags]pregnancy, glucose test, placenta previa, positive attitude[/tags]
Joanna said,
Oh, ick, that orange stuff is nasty. A couple months ago, I took Tim in for a blood test at a local lab, and it must have been the pregnant woman morning. Everyone around me was pregnant and drinking that nasty stuff. Ewwww. But at least it’s not too long. I took some protein with me to the doctor the second time around (I had to do it twice because of the high risk factor with twins, once while I was still morning sick) to eat as soon as the test was over.
I’ll be praying that the rest of your pregnancy is uneventful.
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pixie said,
oh man.
I know EXACTLY what you need.
You need a cheer up session with your ATL cuzzents!
We will come.
We will cheer.
We love you- when are you available on a Saturday- maybe Saturday after this one?
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Alli said,
@pixie
I can’t think of anything we are doing that weekend. If you want to come up, let’s do it!
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