Beebee

Well, I had my first doctor’s appt on Wednesday. It was supposed to be on Friday, but I got a call that the doc had a family emergency and would be out of office for 3 weeks. Asked if I could come in immediately to get my appt done. I said sure and left my job and spent the afternoon in the doc office. I wouldn’t haven minded this except the doc was already gone, so what was the point in me rescheduling to see the NURSE? Doctor appt went fine though. Had my blood and urine work done. The nurse was pissy with me because I said I didn’t want to have a sonogram done “just because”. I told her that I didn’t agree with unnecessary testing and such on the baby for routine purposes. If the doctor felt there was an actual concern and medical need to have it done, then I would reconsider. She couldn’t really argue, but she tried in vain to convince me to “just go along with it.”

I’m kind of a “naturalist” where pregnancy is concerned. I think that doctors tend to want to be doers, and developing babies are better left to their time with very little interference. I don’t think you can go wrong by letting nature do her thing. No one ever comes back a decade later and says there are evil side effects to eating right, avoiding bad manmade things, rest, and exercise. I am sure that “most” things they now do to unborn babies are safe, but for me, I don’t want to take the chance they are wrong. Besides that, most of the testing things they do now is to weed out the “bad babies”. By this I mean testing for genetic or growth problems. I would never have an abortion, so if my baby is down sydrome (or anything else), I probably don’t need the stress of knowing it this early. She was able to find the heartbeat on the doppler, and it sounded good. I gained 3 lbs since my last appt (pre-prego). It wouldn’t have been that high except I had no warning I was going to have to step on the scale, and I had just eaten a rather large lunch!! :O That is an evil thing to do to a prego woman!

We are having family drama concerning my step-kids. I’m hoping it will all settle down soon. I would love to tell you all more, but out of respect for my hubby, I am trying to learn to keep my mouth shut occassionally and have some faith. Just keep us in mind and for those of you who pray, I wouldn’t mind a few in regards to making the best choices in the near future.