Today I had
my first appointment with the OB who I’ll be seeing throughout the
pregnancy. I was nervous going into it,
because I didn’t know what to expect, how well we’d mesh, if I’d feel
comfortable with her. It turned out she
was amazing and I feel like she’ll provide a great level of care. She made it sound like if a c-section is
necessary, OK, we’ll have to go that route, but there’s no reason to assume it
has to be that way. I felt comfortable
with her approach for sure.
She does
like to do an epidural automatically with multiples, mainly because even if you
are able to birth Baby A vaginally, sometimes it happens that you need an
emergency c-section to get Baby B out.
Both babies could be in the right position for delivery, but once A is
out of there, B has room to move around and sometimes they’ll turn and be
breech. If they can, they’ll reach up in
there and try to reposition the baby for vaginal delivery, but she said you
really don’t want that to be done without medication! I have to think on it, as I don’t like the
idea of automatically getting an epidural.
I worry that it will prolong the labour since I won’t have the same
natural inklings for pushing and whatnot.
It sounds insane and IS insane to some degree, but I feel like I could
do it all without. But only time will
tell and I realize I don’t know what’s going to happen, so we have to just wait
and see what our scenario is.
My only
real concern with this doctor is that she only delivers at BC Women’s, and if I
want to go to a closer hospital (Burnaby General), I have to get a new OB. She’ll refer me to someone she knows, but…I
just felt really good about her, and what BC Women’s can provide over other
hospitals. There’s no comparison
really. Especially with the possibility
of the twins being early. I just worry
about being able to get there in time, that’s really my only issue, because
with traffic it could take an hour to get there, and with my labour being
relatively short with Andrew, I don’t know how much time I’ll have. In the worst case, though, I can always get
an ambulance, and then I’d at least know that I’m in good care should anything
suddenly happen! I don’t want James
helping me deliver our twins on the road side.
LOL
I’m now
going to have to process everything from the appointment and decide whether or
not I still want to also have a midwife.
I was adamant that I wanted both before this appointment, but now I’m
not so sure. I see the OB every 4 weeks
(more later in pregnancy) and have an u/s every 4 weeks (more later in
pregnancy). She spent a good portion of
time with me and I didn’t feel the least bit rushed. So I’m wondering if it might be best to NOT
have a midwife too. Ultimately, I was
told the midwife would not be allowed in the room with me during delivery. So why bother? She wouldn’t really be able to do much, other
than offer extra appointments. I don’t
want any extra appointments at this time!
It’s ridiculous, but seriously ONE appointment in a day and I am so
exhausted and can’t do much of anything else.
Plus I always have to find someone to look after Andrew for me when I’m
having an appointment. I think I’ve
mostly made up my mind that I will cancel my first midwife appointment next
week, but I’ll think about it over the weekend.
I had liked the idea of the after care they provide for the first 6
weeks, but the OB said I’ll stay in the hospital several days with the twins
because they really want to help with breastfeeding getting going, since with
twins it’s that much more complicated to get into a routine. So I feel like I’ll be provided with after
care anyway, and ultimately having already had a child, I do have a pretty good
idea of what I’ll be going through postpartum, so maybe I don’t need the same
care as I did with my first experience.
So much to
think about! So much happening! Craziness!
But I’m so happy that things have been working out well and that I’m
feeling good about where this is going.
Now to enjoy a long weekend alone just me and my husband, this week just
keeps getting better!
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