Except for that one person who thinks your door should always be open.

Good luck, Sparky. How frustrating.

At our ultrasound yesterday, baby was in the frank breech position (head up, legs folded up with feet near face). He is already a character! Anyway, I have to go back next week to see if he's in a better position for them to check his heart and other important items.

OB said he is a big boy and weighs 5 lbs (at 32 weeks). He acted like I needed to watch my food intake, but I'm honestly not going nuts with sugar and the like. I have only gained in my belly. OB and partner are big into childhood obesity research and he was freaking me out talking about weight issues and such. I'm like, "He's not even born yet!" I have lots of 6' and taller men in my family and my brother and I were both big babies (bro was 9 lbs, 2 oz and I was 9 lbs). Neither of us have weight issues. I also have to have my 4th (!!!!) 1 hour glucose test. So. Over. It. Just give me my baby already!

He is already a character!

So, he's already trying to moon people, huh?

I guess you can try the radio between your legs trick to get him to turn around so they can get their measurements. Does it matter which way he's going for the C-section? I have no idea if it impacts the direction of the incision.

The margin for error on the baby weight guess is so large, you can't put much stock into what they say. And fooey on another glucose test!

Does it matter which way he's going for the C-section? I have no idea if it impacts the direction of the incision.

Nope, doesn't matter for C-section, so at least there's that. I've heard that about the margin of error and wonder why he's making such a fuss about it. I'm a little frustrated by it, especially when I had my regular OB appt last Friday where they told me I'd lost 2 lbs since my previous appt and said I was measuring normally. Grrrr.

Good luck with the glucose test, GC! I was frank breech, if that's any indication. I actually came out that way. I hope Glambaby decides head first is a better option.

Now I see you're going in for a c-section.

I should probably call and apologize to my mom again while I'm thinking about it.

I *finally* got my prescription through from my physio for this! I have to pay myself, but I've been saving up for the six months it's taken them to decide which walker I need. I'm really glad it's this one. It's great for carrying enormous numbers of books.

I spent $240 out of pocket on my mental health alone last month

Ouch. That's difficult. I do keep getting reminded how lucky I am to live somewhere with a National Health Service. Yes, waiting lists are horrific (see above re: waiting six months for a prescription for a walker that I have to buy myself anyway), but I do get a number of fairly expensive medications for about £15 a month. (Have to pay for other things, including therapy - but I haven't had time for that in a while...!) I hope your expenses get a bit easier to deal with, smonster. This recession bites. On the jugular.

If they make me appear, I will certainly try to embarrass them without embarrassing myself.

I think that's only fair. Clearly they have no concept of what the first few months of motherhood involve, and need educating. I hope they agree to postpone or exempt you.

ETA:

OB and partner are big into childhood obesity research and he was freaking me out talking about weight issues and such. I'm like, "He's not even born yet!"

Definitely too early to worry about it! That's really ridiculous.

I had my regular OB appt last Friday where they told me I'd lost 2 lbs since my previous appt and said I was measuring normally.

Are your regular and high-risk doctors in contact? Mine were on two different floors of the same building, so I'd go the high risk doctor every week and then carry his report upstairs to the regular OB and get a consensus opinion on what the heck was going on in there.

They are across the street from each other and send test results, etc. back and forth. But I have never seen them on the same day. My regular OB office is in chaos right now, which I may have mentioned, so that may be one of the problems. One of the doctors resigned suddenly and now it's all on the other doctor. It feels like it's always something these days...

I am having a hard time celebrating marriage when it's denied to so many people for no goddamn good reason except fear and hatred.

Sigh. Yeah, I hear this, and I felt it a little bit this morning too...but, at the same time, I need to be happy about getting married. I'm trying to keep the two separate. For me, it's a bit like keeping my own pain about infertility away from my happiness for my friends' pregnancies. I can be angry as hell about the inequities and fight like hell for marriage equality without despising my own ceremony. I think that I'm able to do this because the ceremony for me is about affirming the love and commitment between us more than it is about the legality of it--despite the fact that I completely, 100% agree that the legality is a right every person should have and that we must keep fighting for. If I had fallen in love with a woman instead of ND, I believe I would still be getting married in January.

Does that make any sense?