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[SpringChickens]

Rare Feathers - you must be SOOO frustrated with them right now!!

I know I would be! I hope they figure out a way to get you in the other clinic FAST!!

RCentner - that's wonderful!!!

Hope you go fast!! As Suzettex5 said, make sure you and your husband are intimate frequently to speed things up... there are lots of good prostaglandins in the semen to help ripen your cervix!!

 

[kelseygirl707]

OMG! Rachel that is soooooooo exciting!!!! Go Shane GO!!!!!

Keep us updated!!!


On a TMI side, I told DH he better be ready to "GO" when I get home, LOL! He didn't argue

Oh, and those accupressure points don't work!!!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

The doctor just called me at home....the right EIF is gone (which is good), but the left is still there.

However, now there is a issue with her head!

She started off with the good news of the right EIF being gone. But then went into the head thing and I just about lost it. I had to sit down because I felt like my knees were going to buckle. The doctor said the radiologist has to wait until tomorrow to speak with the ultrasound tech and see if it was a perfect, straight on shot or if maybe the baby was little off-center. If it was off-center, it may be nothing. If it was a straight-on shot, that's not good. The man that did my u/s today is supposedly the best we have in this valley.

I was given the option of waiting another month and having another ultrasound here or getting into Spokane as soon as possible. I told her I wanted to go ASAP to the Level 2 person...so she made the referral as I was on the phone with her.

I am beyond worried sick at this point....

My DH called his mom (who is a nurse) and her opinion was to get another doctor to look at the results as well. My doctor has only been practicing for 7 years and she's VERY thorough but also very text book. She admitted she's seen things like this but not this exact combination of things. The other doctor that my MIL suggested has been practicing more than 30 years....and is a no BS guy. My doctor went back and forth on a lot of things. It was more like she'd say something reassuring and then counter with a comment that was totally contradictory to what she'd already said. DH said it was probably to cover her butt, just in case? Too many sue happy people I suppose.

 

[kelseygirl707]

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UGh, I'm soo sorry, I don't blame you for wanting it ASAP, I know you will have sleepless nights until then. Still keeping you both in my prayers. Did they say what they are seeing with her head?

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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UGh, I'm soo sorry, I don't blame you for wanting it ASAP, I know you will have sleepless nights until then. Still keeping you both in my prayers. Did they say what they are seeing with her head?

She said something about one of the ventricles (I didn't even know the brain had those?) but anyway--one of them was funny-shaped. It either is supposed to be straight or curved and it looked like the opposite of what it should be on the u/s. It's kind of a blur to me...it was normal on the last u/s but not so much on this one.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

I am just beyond stressed and miserable.

Especially when she mentioned Tri 18 and how they'd let me go to 35 weeks and deliver here because the baby would be born dead or die right after birth!

I then said that my Tri 18 screen came back so low it wasn't even on my results sheet (I think anything less than 1 in 54,000 is?) And the doctor was like, "Yeah...but you never know!"

I told DH tonight I don't want to ever do this again (have kids). I have always heard pregnancy is wonderful & beautiful...but I'm just sobbing, stressed and worried to the point I'm throwing up. My hair is falling out. I am just a mess!!

I think I need to switch doctors and not anything against my doctor but I think I'd like someone with more experience and someone who is not afraid to be upfront and tell it like it is. I mean at this point, there is not a thing we can do...whether it's a heart defect, downs, etc. It's pretty much in God's hands at this point...I'm just the "incubator" and have to deal with whatever the outcome is.

 

[KlaHaYa Gardens]

I am just beyond stressed and miserable. Especially when she mentioned Tri 18 and how they'd let me go to 35 weeks and deliver here because the baby would be born dead or die right after birth! I then said that my Tri 18 screen came back so low it wasn't even on my results sheet (I think anything less than 1 in 54,000 is?) And the doctor was like, "Yeah...but you never know!"

What? What? What?

Why did she say the baby would die or be stillborn? And over the phone? Not in person? That is unusual!​

 

[rcentner]

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you are gonna make me cry for you, I will pray for you and your babe.

 

[rcentner]

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on the TMI side....I have totally not been in the mood at all for about 2 weeks now and when we do, it's not very comfy. So...do I tell DH that we are doin it to get em out? or do you think that's too much stress?
I forgot about the accupressure, I am not gonna try that yet. I think I need about 2 days and then I will be ready to try all the crazy stuff. I have bills to pay, curtains to make and today I am going through what I packed for the hospital to be sure it's what I need. I had packed the bag anticipating warm weather, haha...what was I thinking? now that I know it will not be warm I need to re assess the outfits for us. I wonder if the hospital will be on the warm side or the cool side? I was also hoping it would be warm out since I didn't want to worry about heating the house for shane. maybe I will buy some oil for the furnace cause I really dont want him to breathe in smoke from the wood stove and the wood stove is so drying his skin would not like that. good thing we will qualify for heap come this winter since we will have 1 more family member.

It will be tough to communicate once I leave for the hospital since I dont have one of those fancy gadget phones that you can get online with, but my sister or dad might have a computer or something they can bring to the hospital. I will let you guys know when I am headed to the hospital and then when I get home I can post pics.

oh I read yesterday that boys are often born with erections!!

figures!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Thanks everyone. Now I just have to wait some more. I am hoping to get into Spokane within the next week (on short notice, I will just need 3 hours' notice to get there). My doctor did say that a lot of times they refer people over there, who go, get the level 2 ultrasounds done and then the Peri will call back and ask what the clinic here even was worried about?

My doctor said it's a combination of ancient equipment and being overly cautious since they can't handle anything even slightly off.

Although why would she call me at home? DH thinks because her nurse screwed up this whole thing for me and so the dr is trying to make it up and she knows I'm freaking out.

I think (and yes, I'm pretty pessimistic at this point) it's because there is something bad wrong.

My MIL thinks if I were to have this other doctor, he'd give it to me straight and may have had me come right back for a second u/s that same day instead of waiting a week or two for Spokane and then sent me to Spokane....but it's hard to say.