Had another growth scan yesterday. The scan was ( I think) fine, but the whole experience left me feeling very hormonal and tearful. Went in for the scan almost straight away, but then was left for 2 hours in the waiting room, watching other people who had arrived after me go in, until I was the last person left. When finally summoned to see the consultant, the conversation went like this:
Consultant: How are you feeling?
Me: Fine (a little grumpily)
Consultant: Great, ok, well we'll see you for your final scan at 36 weeks then
Me: Oh
The only other time that I saw the consultant was at my dating scan when they discovered I was carrying twins; I've seen a registrar at every other appointment. I did manage to spend at least 5 minutes in the room with them though. At my last appointment the registrar said that they would be scanning me every fortnight UP TO 36 weeks, and then weekly thereafter, which is something that now appears not to be the case. I went into labour at 33 weeks (which I will be on Monday) with my last set of twins and so have form for premature delivery. I was kind of expecting that they might be discussing plans for labour at this appointment, however briefly, since I could well deliver before 36 weeks.
By this time it is well after 1pm. It'll take me an hour to drive home and leave me exactly no time to have a nap or do anything useful before picking up the DDs from school. Already, I am tearful at the prospect of no nap.
When I got into the car, I opened up the notes to have a look at the scan report. It has Twin1 weighing 3llbs 15oz and Twin2 weighing 4llbs 4oz. At previous scan T1 was 3llbs 14oz and T2 3llbs 7oz. Now either this is a big cock-up and they've got them the wrong way round, which would mean actually that they have both put on just under half a pound, OR T1 has only gained 1oz in a fortnight and T2 has piled on almost a pound. Either way, it was not referred to at all, even to just reassure me that they labelled them wrong. I am even more tearful at this point.
Finally got home, opened mobile phone bill and was presented with the sum of £136, which is outrageously high. Turn out that DS, who has a sim only contract on my account at a cost of £10 per month, stupidly signed up for one of these idiotic quiz-things by text in order to win an ipad or some other such loony and unlikely thing. Said quiz was then charging him £10 per text. Called Orange and kicked off- they said it was a third party agreement and therefore there was nothing they could do about it. Called helpline number in one of the texts to demand son be unsubscribed. Phone answered by a very bland-sounding Asian man. I stropped about how this was a disgrace and questioned how it was possible for my son to enter essentially into a contract for services when he is only 13? Bland-Asian-Man blandly stated that he had removed my son's phone number and he was now unsubscribed, several times. I then asked him to confirm that my son's number had been removed from the database. He said 'no, if he signs up again, he will be subscribed again. I suggest you take better care of your son'. I said' thank you for your advice', hung up and burst into tears. Again.
It wouldn't be so bad if it hadn't come straight on the back on DS getting into trouble at the weekend too. We use Plusnet as our ISP and have a 60GB download allowance per month. We pay £5 per 5GB that we use over that. For the last 4 months we have averaged between 40-70GB OVER our allowance, which has cost us a fortune. Turns out that DS has been downloading like a mofo and spending lots of time on Youtube too (as evidenced by the watching of 29 vids on Friday alone). What really got him into trouble was him trying to cover his tracks. Unfortunately for him, DH is a computer programmer and is better than DS at this sort of stuff.
I didn't tell DH about the phone thing. I couldn't face him hitting the roof again. Today has been better. Sorry for the rant people :/