I left work early to drive all the way to Gallatin for our appointment.. we basically toured the entire hospital before we finally found the women's center. A nurse helped us find it, but on the way she said "You said Dr. Holt is your doctor? She isn't here today...." So of course I get all stressed out and plan to cuss out the poor woman at the front desk for messing up my appointment. Come to find out, my doctor apparently didn't come today and they tried to call me but had my phone number wrong!! They said they could "work me in" with a doctor who was about to do a c-section in the next 20 minutes. So at this point I am happy to be seen but aggravated at the situation and really wishing I could be back with my people at NFC!!
Finally we get to go back! The nurse weighs me and writes down 153 instead of 135 which I QUICKLY corrected.. then she starts going on and on about all of these tests we are doing today and asking me a million questions. She obviously did not read my chart, which clearly stated I have already completed ALL of these tests. Then she tells me we are just going to do a pap smear and bloodwork and be done. No ultrasound... which I have waited and agonized about for 3 weeks. At this point I am trying really hard not to cry and Will is looking like he is about to punch this girl in the face.....
A different doctor comes in and seems like he has actually read my chart. He starts asking me a bunch of questions and I answered them with quite a bit of attitude. Then he said "Do you have any questions for me?" and I said "Um, yes.. if we are not doing an ultrasound I need to leave and go to another doctor because I have already done all of these stupid tests. So are you going to bring me to the ultrasound room or not?" ... After he got over his initial shock, he said he would take me to do an ultrasound today and then look over my charts from NFC, and let me know if I need to come back next week for more tests. This whole ordeal wasted about 15 minutes and got my hormones all flustered so I am so ready to see my babies!!
Now for the happy part :-) After the embarrassment of almost taking my underwear off for what I thought would be a transvag ultrasound (It's all I ever had!!! Thank God he didn't notice) he out the gel on my belly and we got started. The office had a big TV screen to watch and it was the first ultrasound I could actually enjoy because I wasn't in excruciating pain from the transvag one. We saw the two heartbeats right away, as well as their little arms and legs. Neither of them care for ultrasounds too much.. they kept flipping away from it so it was hard to get good pictures. Baby A heartbeat was 178 and baby B 180. Both measured perfect! He said our next ultrasound would be at 20 weeks for an anatomy scan, but we have a 4D one scheduled at 16 weeks (Oct. 16th) during fall break, so we can have a big gender reveal party that Saturday :-)
So, overall today was a pretty emotional appointment. Being shuffled around and forgotten about and not listened to is definitely NOT something I am used to, but in the end we got to see our two sweet babies.. so all is well. Here are some pictures from today!
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