Most of you know I'm a midwife seeing an OB and just kinda planning on having my baby wherever feels right at the time.
When I had my u/s we found that this baby has a velamentous cord insertion, but none of the complications that can be associated with that insertion. I was initially freaked out and thinking that she'd want me to schedule a section at like 36w or something. She didn't...she said it's really not a big deal, that we'll look at it a little closer later on and be sure it's not anywhere near a place where it may cause problems and that it shouldn't be a problem with my pregnancy/birth. She did say, though, that she would ask her consulting peri. about it. I don't like her consulting peri. Everyone I know who has seen him, he's rec'd induction, higher monitoring levels, just...intervention for the sake of intervention (it seems like). I did agree with him when she consulted with him in my last pregnancy and he said having a baby at 37w made more sense than being on bedrest in the hospital for pre-E and THEN being induced at 38w, but I really think that's the only time I've ever agreed with him on anything.
Sooo...he said that she should be doing growth u/s every three weeks starting like...now because this can be associated with IUGR and that I shouldn't be allowed to go a day over 39w. The more I think about that, the more it just really peeves me. This is my last baby. I don't want to be induced because he thinks that everyone should have their baby by 39w (no, really, he does). I don't want to fight it and I really don't want to start seeing her every three weeks starting at 21w. I started seeing her ever 2w starting at 34w last time for BP issues and it was just soooo hard to get there, spend two hours waiting, see her for 5 minutes, get sent to the hospital for monitoring 50% of the time (a least 4 hours)...it was stressful. And it's starting earlier now.
It has put me in a really foul mood the more I think about it. DH left a mess in the kitchen before he went out of town this morning, so he got to be my scapegoat (still pissed off about that, actually), but really I'm just so frustrated that I feel like my last birth is being robbed from me at 20w.
I do understand that this can be serious and I did ask her today how long it would take to get baby out if I started bleeding (because that bleeding would be baby's blood, not mine). I'm also planning to ask if the smaller hospital I prefer has in house anesthesia (I think they do b/c they do VBACs) because that will make a difference for me this time around. But those are the worst case scenario things and chances are really good that this is not going to change anything at all, except for the darned hyper-interventive peri.
When I had my u/s we found that this baby has a velamentous cord insertion, but none of the complications that can be associated with that insertion. I was initially freaked out and thinking that she'd want me to schedule a section at like 36w or something. She didn't...she said it's really not a big deal, that we'll look at it a little closer later on and be sure it's not anywhere near a place where it may cause problems and that it shouldn't be a problem with my pregnancy/birth. She did say, though, that she would ask her consulting peri. about it. I don't like her consulting peri. Everyone I know who has seen him, he's rec'd induction, higher monitoring levels, just...intervention for the sake of intervention (it seems like). I did agree with him when she consulted with him in my last pregnancy and he said having a baby at 37w made more sense than being on bedrest in the hospital for pre-E and THEN being induced at 38w, but I really think that's the only time I've ever agreed with him on anything.
Sooo...he said that she should be doing growth u/s every three weeks starting like...now because this can be associated with IUGR and that I shouldn't be allowed to go a day over 39w. The more I think about that, the more it just really peeves me. This is my last baby. I don't want to be induced because he thinks that everyone should have their baby by 39w (no, really, he does). I don't want to fight it and I really don't want to start seeing her every three weeks starting at 21w. I started seeing her ever 2w starting at 34w last time for BP issues and it was just soooo hard to get there, spend two hours waiting, see her for 5 minutes, get sent to the hospital for monitoring 50% of the time (a least 4 hours)...it was stressful. And it's starting earlier now.
It has put me in a really foul mood the more I think about it. DH left a mess in the kitchen before he went out of town this morning, so he got to be my scapegoat (still pissed off about that, actually), but really I'm just so frustrated that I feel like my last birth is being robbed from me at 20w.
I do understand that this can be serious and I did ask her today how long it would take to get baby out if I started bleeding (because that bleeding would be baby's blood, not mine). I'm also planning to ask if the smaller hospital I prefer has in house anesthesia (I think they do b/c they do VBACs) because that will make a difference for me this time around. But those are the worst case scenario things and chances are really good that this is not going to change anything at all, except for the darned hyper-interventive peri.