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Originally Posted by CorasMama  had my 7 week ultrasound today. Saw the heartbeat! A nice, healthy, normal 115 bpm.  :
She also told me I have a heart-shaped (or bicornuate) uterus, which would really explain a heck of a lot, like my preterm birth that was almost breech (she turned the day before), and my 3 miscarriages. I'm really irked that my previous OB, with the 20 or so ultrasounds I had (yes, really), never bothered to share that information.  : |
sounds about on par with our current unbalanced medical system.
why would YOU need to know that info? it's only your body, and that's privileged information, hun.
out of the 30+ ob's/re i've seen in my life, only ONE treated me like a thinking, feeling, fellow human being. it's so sad what so many women are forced to deal with at such a special and vulnerable time in their life.
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Originally Posted by veesmimi My first dr appointment was a run through the gauntlet!! I doubt midwives do all that.... We sat and listened to pg info, I esp liked the part where he pushed the bf class on me, dude! I've got 4yrs of experience, I think I got the hang of it. Then the physical (where an uncomfortable amount of gloved hand went way north, uninvited!), the pap, the vag ultrasound-- got to see the tiny heart flicker! But then we sat with the nurse for a bit while she loaded us down with pamplets before they shipped me off to the lab where they drew SEVEN vials of blood.... and they want me to come back in 4 weeks. Yikes.
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for you!
with my mw, she asked when i was 39 wks if i wanted her to check if i was dilated at all. i did, but it was awesome that she ASKED. so i didn't have any internal exams until 39 weeks. and when i was in labor she always asked first before doing a ve.
i've always felt that most ob's see it as their RIGHT to feel you up at every appt. gross.
i get so fed up with the health care system in this country. here is a perfect example of how sub-par it is:
when i was 10 or so, i had a wayward tooth. the dentist said it was "extra" and pulled it. those were his exact words to my mother and i: "it is an extra tooth. she doesn't need it. it needs to be pulled now, or it will begin to cause her pain soon."
years later, when i went to get braces, the orthodontist wanted to know why i was missing a tooth! ARGH!
so i had to have all sorts of extra stuff done to my teeth that took more time wearing braces and more money, all because a d*mb*ss dentist said a tooth was extra, instead of saying that it was in fact a permanent tooth that had migrated and would need extensive work.
looking back, imo, i think he just wanted the revenue my insurance would give him for pulling a tooth, because the work that i needed done, his office didn't do.
it never ceases to amaze me that the united states spends more than any other country in the world on health care and yet we have the unhealthiest and sickest population of any developed country. it's no wonder with ob's not telling their clients they have bicornate uteruses, and dentists pulling teeth that don't need to be pulled.
Oh Mama, I get the "I'm a depressed hormonal mess." 
Sounds like such a good idea! 
Can't believe you only *just* found out about your heart shaped uterus. Yeah, that's kind of important to know.
