Appointment #4

We just got back from our fourth appointment with the OB office. Today we met yet another new doctor, this one is a female from Russia. She was nice, but still wouldn't listen to me about due dates. That is my one complaint about OB offices - they are just so by the books, regardless of anything I'm trying to explain to her. I mean, it is physically impossible for me to have conceived when the due date is saying it happened and they just won't change it. So, according to my OB office, I am 19 weeks today.

It was a pretty uneventful appointment. It seemed to take hours for her to find the baby's heartbeat and I was getting nervous, but in reality is was probably about 15-20 seconds. I've just been so paranoid because of having the headaches and having to take medication for them this time around, and then I didn't really feel any movement the past few days. Anyway, we finally heard the heartbeat - right around 140 bpm. She told me that my AFP bloodwork came back and there doesn't seem to be any markers for possible problems, which is also reassuring. She reminded me that I'll have to get the Rhogam shot at 28 weeks. And she gave me the paperwork for my "big" ultrasound to get done.

We also discussed the medication I'm taking for my headaches and SHE prescribed me 50 mg of Imitrex and went on about how it's a Class C but that it means it's safe, etc. It so funny how the doctors within the same office differ on things since the midwife also said to take that, but the other doctor said to take Fiorocet. (Not counting the pharmacist said to take it only if I desperately needed it.) It also doesn't help that this is the internet age and I go online to message boards and everyone on there has a different opinion too. My consensus is that I'll only take something if I really, really, really need to.