We had a baby appointment that did not go well. Due to scheduling in the office we had to see a different midwife and we were as far from impressed as possible. Long story short, I brought up that the next appointment I needed to make was for 36 weeks and that the plan was to have another ultrasound done at that point so I asked if she could order it. She made some extremely rude, flippant comments about how another ultrasound isn't going to change the diagnosis that we already got and that the risk is what the risk is at this point. It's not so much that her comments got me concerned about it all again because in reality, nothing had changed and we hadn't gotten any new news about baby that wasn't good. It was her attitude about it that just got me so angry. To make such comments so carelessly just led to a really rough day. I remembered that I had an email address still for the midwife we love so much that has been gone on medical leave so I sent her an email and got a wonderful response that gave us some reassurance as well.
Anyways, at that appointment though, we were still able to find out that baby's heartbeat and measurement looks great. I brought up that I felt like I'd had a weight gain spike in the last week and she said that it's at about this point that my blood volume would be doubled. That can cause weight gain and make ya hot and my goodness - I have been roasting this week!! Luckily it's been a cooler week but now we're headed into a hot week...we'll see how it goes!
