Good news for me...

Okay well a little background here first... it's okay, it has a happy ending!

We have 3 doctors and one Midwife at our OBGYN Practice. The Midwife is semi retired and doesn't do deliveries at all anymore, just prenatal care, and we see her almost every time. She's the one who called the dieticians at the scary hospital idiots (I heard it, she really did, over the phone) and sent me to the nice hospital instead... she's a bitch, but she's on our side so we LOVE her...

The other two doctors (who do deliveries) we've seen almost every other time, and they are totally sweet and fantastic. The head doctor, however, we hadn't met until our appointment last week. He's the main guy, but apparently can't be bothered to really meet everyone until the very end of the pregnancy. Well after sitting in the waiting room for about 45 minutes (unusual), and then seeing the nurse- doing the whole nurse thing, and told to remove the pants and get a drape and wait for the doc... we waited over an hour for this doctor to make the time to see us. So pantsless, cold, and irritated I waited... eventually Tim went out and complained and the doc finally decided to see us. He breezed in, talked to me real fast about the Group B Strep... which I already knew... and basically wrote off having to go in for antibiotics immediately after the water breaking as unneccesary but the insurance companies *make* them do it... because a couple of babies got spinal meningitis and died and a few more went blind... just a couple of babies... uh---- well I know it doesn't make much sense from a statistics place, but if one of those babies is MY baby... it bugs ME... I'd rather have the precaution, even if he sees it as unneccesary.

Let's just say I felt he was too blase and breezy about something pretty important... my Kat!!! I want a doc that sees babies as individuals, not cost/effect statistics!

Then he checks my dialation, and for those of you who haven't had this done, it's not pleasant under the best of circumstances but he was SO rough, I was in pain the rest of the day... so he sends me home saying "See you at your induction on the 6th (which is over a week later than my other docs wanted me in to do it, and wow! on HIS day at the hospital....) He basically scheduled me to make sure he gets another delivery notch, disregarding the fact that they didn't plan to let me get full term, she's growing fast, and I'm having other issues as well...

So for a week I've been stressing about this... I don't want this man delivering my baby... he seems like the kind of guy that would write something off as nothing, and then Kat might suffer for it later. Plus he's rough, and no one likes a rough OBGYN... plus he told me I didn't need to see the doctors at all again until induction. (It's common for women to get WEEKLY appointments for NORMAL pregnancies at this point... and with the Gestational Diabetes, I'm considered a risk... so see the oddness here?)

Today we went for our Non Stress Test like we do every monday, and the Midwife came in to check our numbers and we basically told her our concerns... just like that she cancelled my induction on the 6th, and is checking into a better date for me with one of the other doctors... and EARLIER than the 6th. After Kat's big weight jump last week, she's thinking that me going full term is unlikely... she also realized I had no doctor's appointment this week, or at all, and saw me on the spot and made sure I was scheduled for a weekly appointment until the birth. Even she was totally shocked that he said no one needed to see me until induction... I'm glad we complained! Plus this week they caught that my Blood Pressure is a little high, so she wants to really watch that since the whole pregnancy it's been perfect so far. They never would have caught it if we hadn't spoken up.

SO good news! I got the weekly appointments (yay), an earlier induction, which according to the midwife may get bumped even earlier due to Kat's weight gain and my BP (double yay), and although it's a roll of the dice if I go into labor on my own who will deliver- at least if I make it to induction I don't have to have the a-hole doctor (WOOHOO!)

Long blog I know... but that's the story. I'm feeling so much more relieved. I actually had a nightmare about this last night, so it's been bugging me. I had to share that I was able to speak up (I'm not always good about doing this) and that it worked out REALLY well... and that the midwife totally rocks and has no trouble being frank and calling an idiot an idiot (LOL)

.... and then the pregnant lady had a lovely fast painless birth, with a healthy baby and lived happily ever after...

I wish!