27w5d: Oh...umm...yeah...terrible!

Hi.

I have the taste buds of a 4-year-old.

I liked the glucose drink. It was like a liquid orange Popsicle. Slightly odd aftertaste, but really, it's made me want a juice box or Capri Sun or something like that all day.

While I obviously hope I passed with flying colors (and I do wonder, if I don't, will they put me on The Diet? Or will we decide flooding my babies with glucose might be good for their skinny little asses?), it wasn't an awful experience at all. Even though it took multiple pokes to get a blood draw.

My diastolic BP was high today. It's usually in the 70s, and today it was 90. My systolic was 120 and my urine was negative for protein (and glucose, surprisingly enough), so my OB isn't worried. She thinks it was just an off day, maybe from all the pokes and the fasting and such.

We've reached a tentative decision on the whole insurance/MFM thing. First, either the ancient doctor who told me Atticus was...well, screwed, to be polite, has been fired, or he opted to finally retire. I didn't press the point of, "He's no longer practicing." But the short of it is: my OB wants me to transfer my care back to that group.

Her reasons are: (1) she can assure that I not only get the same peri every time, but that it is the peri I liked best, with whom she consulted about my case multiple times, even after I transferred to the other group. (They really wanted to get to the bottom of WTF went so wrong and how on earth did it escape notice.) (2) She cannot say the same thing about the other MFM group (Group C), as they are in a very large and separate system. (3) Group C is also, apparently, notoriously bad about getting in touch with doctors, and my OB doesn't relish the idea of placing numerous calls to get them to fax over each report. She says they work great within their group, where everything is on the same computer system, but really aren't that approachable to people outside of that hospital group. (4) They have enough raw data to rely on the growth points themselves, rather than the percentiles. That will show how my babies are growing and there's no chance for "software changes" and "different systems of measurement" to mess things up. (5) This group is right downstairs from my OB, and right upstairs from L&D. (6) I'll be getting my NSTs there anyway, starting next week. (7) If something is wrong, we will get a second opinion before doing anything drastic (assuming that's reasonable).

And, for me personally (8), they take both our current and future insurance. And they can get me in at exactly 3 weeks from my last ultrasound.

So we made the appointment. I'm not entirely sold on them just yet, but I want this appointment and it's one I couldn't get at either of the other groups, so I may as well put my toe back in that water.

I hope I don't regret this.