The Doctor is Out --- on Vacation

With the reassuring responses I'm getting from my lotter friends, I'm able to relax my mind about my worries. Thanks so much. It feels good to know that I'm not the only unfortunate worry-freak pregnant woman in the world.

Normally if it's a doctor that your own doctor gives you two they are just as good if not some times better. I've meet the high risk doctor when I had my daughter he was fun and I wouldn't have mind him delivering my daughter. I only saw him 3 times but he did every well and every nice he is about the same age as my doctor. But she can be a bit well on the harsh side. She is from a different country but is the best in town and has build the birthing center where I had my daughter and all the doctors are partners with her that she has personally picked. At 32 weeks I packed my bag for my daughter because pretty much if you go in to labor after 32 weeks most doctors won't stop labor but if they can they will try to hold off labor if they can stop till 36 weeks. So I had mine at the door since I was home all of the time it just made sence to have it there which was a good thing because at 34 weeks they told us to put in the car because at any time I would be delivering. I'm going to do the same here in a few weeks when I'm far enough long. I should know at my 23 week check up if I'm going to be delivering early or not like I did before. The tech and my doctor want to recheck growth of my little guy to see if he is going to going to have big or small growth and if it's small like before then I will go early if not all the way to 40 weeks. I"m just hoping to make it to 36 weeks one week past when I had my daughter because I know the longer is better in most all case then coming out early but I know after 34 weeks most all development is fully working and most babies don't need help after that point some do but not all.

You had a male doctor for your first child? Were you comfortable with it?

I've packed up earlier in the month, and I should remind myself to put in the car later. I know I'm just being a worry-freak. I guess that's because, unlike before when Im still working, I had other things in mind, but this time, this is all that's driving me nuts. I do hope this other doctor would treat me at least 70% as good as my own doctor. It's just that, I got so used to how she is. She was my OB ever since I was still single and she knows my history and all. I'll just have to really trust them with everything.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I think I'll just have to keep an open mind on the set up and pray for everything to be smooth sailing.

That's all I can hope for, that my doctor cares enough to choose the right doctor for me. She knows me since I was still in college. I just got so used to our patient-doctor relationship. Thanks.

I think that often happens for those who don't go for regular check ups with their doctor, or those who just show up in the hospital when its time. For me, we've invested our time and effort to get to her clinic since the first few weeks of the pregnancy, and it just doesn't feel good to think that she won't be the one to finish this up.