I honestly hate the whole doctor thing in general. I'm kind of the type of person that would like to just not ever go to the doctor if I can help it. I know that we have doctors for good reasons and they are valuable to have, but I just get irritated when they tell me I have to do something or really insist on me doing something. I feel like with this baby, I'm going to have to really decide what I want to fight on.
The doctor that saw us asked us some good questions, but I really didn't feel like she was generally excited for us. I mean granted she sees people like us everyday and it's probably no big deal to her, but I kind of wished that she would have been a little more welcoming and enthusiastic. She kept talking about this test that you should get around 12 weeks that determines whether a baby has down syndrome and various other genetic disorders. I wasn't really interested simply because even if there is something wrong with this baby, we are not going to get rid of it just because something might be wrong. It's just not something I could live with myself for doing. So to me, it really doesn't make a difference whether or not the baby has something genetically wrong with it. I'm going to love it anyway. But she kept talking about it and when we finally said we weren't really interested she said that it was mostly for people who don't think they can handle a baby with a problem.
Then she also asked whether or not I have had a flu shot yet. Now I am not a crazy anti-vaccine advocate, I think they are an important piece of disease prevention, but I think they have gone a little overboard with vaccines these last few years. My mom never had a flu shot with any of my siblings or me and we are all alive to tell the tale. I haven't had the flu in years (knock on wood) and I've never had a Flu shot. I'm not about to inject my body with the actual virus to ward it away while I'm pregnant. No thank you! But the doctor asked me if I wanted one and when I said no, she tried to tell me that they highly recommend them when you are pregnant. Sorry, I just don't believe that putting any virus (whether it's supposed to prevent more or not) into my body that wasn't there to begin with is a good idea. If I catch something and have to fight it off, then that's what I'll do, but I am not getting a flu shot. She didn't push it any further though.
This whole going to doctor a lot is going to take some getting used to. I'll do it because I want to make sure my baby is healthy and everything is all good, but I sure don't like it. I'm the kind of person that thinks that once a year is too much. Sigh. Maybe if we lived closer to a hospital, I'd go for a birth center or just have the baby at home. Sadly, insurance rarely pays for births done in a birth center. So it's cheaper to do it at a hospital. Oh well. Maybe we'll do that with another kid. Then that way I'll at least know what to expect.
The doctor did recommend that we see a specialist at 18 weeks. They usually fly someone in from Salt Lake once a month and he does a high resolution ultrasound to check for any abnormalities. Because my mom had a baby with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, they really just want to rule it out ahead of time. Jackson is a really rural hospital and they don't want me to deliver in Jackson if that's the case. I do agree that it's something that we definitely need to watch out for. I honestly am not worried that it would happen. I doubt that we'd win (or lose in this case) the lottery twice in our family. But because we are high risk for this, our insurance will most likely pay for it and we'll get some really cool images of our baby. We'll also find out if it's a boy or girl at that appointment. That will be the week of January 19, I believe, so it's actually only two months away! Crazy. We'll know if our baby is a boy or girl in two months! I can't wait!
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