Yesterday I approached the HR director at my work and asked her if I had a permanent membership number with Kaiser yet. Oh right, well apparently she got it a couple/few days ago and forgot to tell me about it. Oy. At least Kaiser managed to make my temporary number my permanent number so thankfully that eliminated some confusion there as today was my “new patient” appointment at my new doctor’s office.
The whole routine is different from my previous physician. I had to check-in on the ground floor in grand HMO style, then get paperwork to take up to the 4th floor, where the OB office is located. There I had to check-in again, and fill out new patient paperwork and let the waiting commence. I don’t know why they always want pregnant women to come in with full bladders when they make you wait so darn long before you can pee in the cup. Logan wasn’t helping that situation at all either with all of his stretching and kicking. I was about to go up and say something when they finally called my name, about 20-30 minutes after my scheduled appointment time. Did I mention I got to the hospital 30 minutes before the appointment too?
The nurse finally call my name and and went through the routine check-up procedure. This office had me take my glucose test today, so that eliminated one of the tests I needed this month. And instead of having a 28-week check-up they did everything at 27 weeks, so took care of two appointments. My prior doctor wanted me to have an ultrasound to check on the location of the placenta at 28 weeks too, but the new office is sending me to a perinatal specialist at 32 weeks to have that scan. Tomorrow I’ll call and set-up that appointment. Logan was definitely squirmy again today. The nurse practitioner I saw was able to find his heartbeat easily but as soon as she did he would move away. It took about 4 times of relocating before he stayed still enough so she could count the beats. She also measured my abdomen at this appointment, which is on track for 27 weeks. So, I may look small, but Logan’s growing right along schedule. 🙂
After all the routine stuff and clearing up when to have scans I was sat down in another room to watch a DVD of pre-term delivery. Kinda unnerving to think that this could be a possibility and one I pray I won’t have to experience. After the DVD finished I had to go back downstairs and wait at the lab to have my blood drawn for the glucose and anemia tests. If I don’t get a phone call the results are normal. Here’s hoping for no gestational diabetes!
All in all, I was at the hospital for 2.5 hours! Next appointment is in 4-weeks, right before we leave for California. This time I’ll actually get to meet the doctor (with whom there is about a 1 in 50 chance will actually deliver Logan).