It has been a very long week. Lots of ups and downs and I am completely ready for things to level out, but with all that we have going on right now, I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
We were excited to go see our OB so that we could get our referral to the MFM. Our appointment was on Wednesday morning at 9am which is the first appointment of the day. Granted we got there about 3 minutes late, but there were already 2 other women in the waiting room. I wasn’t worried since they do typically get walk-ins early in the morning, but I had an appointment. About 10 minutes after we signed in, the receptionist calls me up. She asks if this was a natural or IVF conceived baby. I was shocked! Like, come on… this office did all the testing and referred us to an RE, did she not even look at my chart? But I was nice, so I just said it was actually IUI and we had seen the RE again. Mind you, I had gotten a phone call the night before reminding me about the appointment and asking if we had seen any other doctors for it where I told her I had seen the RE and been released just over a week ago. So the receptionist let me sit back down to wait. 5 minutes or so later, she lets me know that they haven’t gotten any forms from the RE’s office and they can’t see me without those forms. Now I am getting frustrated since I KNOW that the RE had faxed over the forms last week. I went outside the office so I didn’t have to give all my information to the RE in front of the other girls in the waiting room. The RE had a paper saying that the fax had gone through, but they would send the paperwork again in a few minutes since it was morning and the RE is always busy in the mornings.
I turned to walk back into the office and noticed the receptionist waving to me. Turns out, the paperwork was in my chart and she was only looking for it in the fax file. So I called back the Re to let them know not to fax the paperwork. Then we sat and waited a little longer. Finally around 10, they called me back. We went into the room and the nurse checked my blood pressure and weight. Then she started asking my all the normal questions they ask at the beginning of a pregnancy. What really got us was then she started asking questions about Pixel and all the information they should have had in my chart since the OB delivered him. Darrell called her out on it and asked her if it was in the chart. She said yeah, but we have to put it in the computer now and it is just easier to ask you. *sigh*
So we finally finish all of the paperwork stage and head into the ultrasound room. They were going to do another transvaginal ultrasound, but we decided that we knew we were going to have a lot of ultrasounds throughout the pregnancy for necessity, that we didn’t think this one was necessary. The doctor was ok with it since we just had one less than 10 days ago. So he used the doppler to find the heartbeat warning us that he might not find it since it was still early and you don’t typically hear it with a doppler until about 12 weeks. But we were able to. A strong little heartbeat in the background of my heartbeat. It was great! We were excited. So we go back to the OB in 4 weeks. We were referred to the MFM for our NT test. The receptionist was on hold with the MFM to set up the appointment. We waited for a few minutes, but seen as it was almost 11, we needed to get Darrell to work. I asked the receptionist to just call me when she got the appointment scheduled.
By 3:45 that afternoon, I still hadn’t heard from the OB’s office, so I called them since they closed at 4. She said that the MFM needed them to fax over the request form and then they would call me to set up the appointment. The receptionist said that if we hadn’t heard from them by Monday, then go ahead and call the OB’s office back and they will see what’s going on. So, now it is Saturday and I didn’t hear anything from the MFM’s office. I’m starting to get frustrated with this and I am wishing we were in a bigger town where we had more options for our care. I know we don’t exactly live in a small town, but this is the only MFM’s office in town. It is just all around sucky. I am hoping that calling on Monday helps clear things up. I want to try to have the NT test done by 12 weeks, but it is looking fairly unlikely right now. 🙁
Other than all of the doctor drama we have had going on, my morning sickness has gotten worse. I spent two days basically sick as a dog and only really able to move off the couch to get food and water. I got a migraine (which probably didn’t help the nausea), and nothing was working again. Not even the seabands. It went away, and I am hoping it stays away, but I am doubtful at this point. I have 3.5 weeks until we hit 14 weeks and the wishful thinking is that it will be gone by then.
There are some other things on our plate not related to baby that we are working on, but only time will tell how things will work out. We are just keeping our fingers crossed that it works out in our favor.
