Alaskan OB

I went to my first doctors appointment for the twins. Since I'm new to the practice I had to go through the initial work up that they typically give to people who have just found out they're pegnant. I received a folder full of first trimester information. The woman doing the paperwork was the most bubbly and encouraging person that I've every met. I'm not sure if she was a christian or not, but she really had a gift. The cynic in me wants to think that she just knows what to say to very pregnant women to make them feel comfortable, but there was something else about it. The way she encouraged me when she took my weight and kept commenting on how good I looked, it just made my day.

To top everything off, the place was immaculate. It made my old place look like a shack. They offer hypnobirthing classes, and give all of their patients prenatal massages each trimester. I shouldn't have been surprised when my new doc was pro vaginal delivery as long as one kid was head down. I tried to say, that c-section can still be a possibility (I didn't want to seem stuck on one idea) but she made it a point to keep talking about the negatives. And without so many words, I could tell that she wantedto try for a vaginal birth. It also helped that girl is head down and boy is breech.

Another new thing for me, doctors who use the ultrasound machine to check heartbeats for themselves. I like that. This way they can really see and listen. When she went to check boy's heartbeat, she had a look on her face, and I knew something was off. She said he had variable deceleration. His heart rate was slow and then picked up. That's when she decided that I should have a NST - non stress test, just to make sure that he isn't having those too often. Well the NST consisten on 40min of trying to find each heartbeat then keeping the monitors on them. They moved a ton. I also had to press a button every time they moved, which was laughable, because all you would hear on the monitor was the rhythmic gallop of two heartbeats, with random staticy whooshes (that was them moving). Atfirst I thought that this was a one time thing, but my doctor decided that because,of boy's variable decelerations, the fact that its twins, and my gestational age, that I need these things twice a week. Not bad right, quiet alone time? Nope, Mikegoes back to work starting tomorrow with workdays, and Adi will be coming along to all of my appointments, even the ones that consist of an ultrasound, a NST, and an appointment withmy doctor. I just hope she can stay entertained!