I give up!! I've been awake since about 3, couldn't get back to sleep when I went back up after some food, so I gave up and cme downstairs.
MW appt this morning. I'm going in armed with information and I think I have my complaining head on.
MrsSL - Is it usual for it to take this long to sort a house out? If you're ever at a loss after work or anything you're more than welcome to give me a call and come to mine or something. Not quite sure how I'll give you my number as I no longer have any spare PAYG phones or anonymous email addresses like I used to. (All sounds a bit odd, but in my single days I didn't like to give out my real phone number etc as I did have a couple of erm...strange-ones who didn't quite seem to understand I wasn't interested, so had a PAYG phone for that purpose, much easier to bin a sim card than change my phone number)
Chloe - sounds like we may have had the same sonographer for our 12wk scans. Longish(I think) blonde hair and glasses? I do have her name in my notes somewhere. She said exactly the same thing to me! I had ds2 at the Mary Rose, which was the old MLU at St MAry's. (I wish I'd had him at home, but hindsight eh, I think for a 1st it's a great idea as you've got the relaxed, less clinical atmosphere, plus the reassurnce that it's only up in the lift to the hospital.) We've been offered the parentcraft adn hospital tour as it's DPs 1st baby, so maybe we'll see each other there?!
Chooster - yes I'm having a 4d scan done. It's all booked in for Sept 11th. I did that yesterday and feel much better now it's booked and knowing that we'll be there for one reason only. (I'm also going to ask them to have a look at the placenta) Boys will be coming along too and they're very excited. I had one done with ds2, but they were quite new then and I had it done quite late. But still got a good couple of pics of his face.
DF - no adjustment of due date at 20wks. Apparently less accurate, My baby is proof of that as head, head circumference, femur and waist measurements were all different, and none matched up to my due date at all.
Thank you STrix for the link, I'm a lot calmer now than I was. I have to say at the time I wasn't really sure whether to be angry or not. Part of me was thinking her job is to scan, check for problems and refer if there are any, which she has done, so technically she has don her job. But, if I was in a restaurant or shop and the person serving me was rude and didn't give me the information I asked for, or at least got someone who could, then I'd complain. No, it's not a 'customer service' based job, but surely healthcare requires more 'customer' service than say retail. You're dealing with something much more sensitive and so maybe the staff should be trained and judged on that just as staff in other industries are. I'm having a good word with my mw this morning and see how it goes before deciding whether to complain about her or not.
Japh, yes people are very surprised at being due in December or there only being one baby.
GGG - I had my head bitten off a few times when I 1st started on MN. TBH now I'm not on here for long enough to get involved in many threads and usually if I did think about posting either the point I wanted to make has already been made several times over or it's descended into a bunfight completely off topic!
Hi Kathsunn & marlus
Aimee, sorry to hear about your friend. And I agree with MrsSL it's amazing the care he will get. The hospitals down here have a lot of military doctors and nurses, and I'd much rather be cared for by one of them than an NHS dr or nurse. XP had a serious injury at work a few years back. He had a 10% survival rate, then only a 10% chance of not having his leg amputated. His main consultant was RAF. His plastic surgeon was army and he his frame specialist was navy. I firmly believe that if we'd lived anywhere else in teh country he wouldn't have survived.
Wow to all of these with so many generations, Aimee and QoD. I only had one grandparent alive, and tbh were never that close due to 'family differences'. Even though neither DP or I have any surviving grandparents ourselves, it's going to be so nice for this DC to have 2 sets of grandparents that care and love and want him/her so much. Something that the DS's have never had as XP's family don't give a crap.
Jobob - I think I win the waffly posts.
baking - sorry to hear you had a similar type of sonographer. It's such an imprtant, and emotive time for anyone, they really should be more communicative, sympathetic, and involve the father just as much. MY DP felt quite angry and upset at her ignoring him so much. Have you managed to get any info or advice at all?
Eek, mammoth post (as ever! )
Also, I should apologise for spelling mistakes. I'm sure my posts must be littered with them. I really need a new keyboard for my laptop. I have the 'n' missing, and many letters only seem to work some of the time.
Well, it's 6:40, another 10 mins or so and ds2 will be up.