Hi everyone, not been around for a while, things have been quite extremely stressful at work this past week.
Had my 16 week appt today, which wasn't great. The mw was running late, which I don't have a problem with at all, then went in and she wanted to listen to the HB first. Unfortunately LO had other ideas, and the MW couldn't find it at all. I told her I'd heard it the night before last, she put a pillow under my bum and lowered the head of the table a bit...then gave up and sent me to the waiting room to drink loads of water.
While I was doing that she saw the lady after me, then I went back in and back on the table... still nothing.
So she referred me to the Gynae assessment unit to have a scan. I'd gone to the appt by myself but called DH and he met me at the hospital - I was a bit wobbly by this point as you can probably imagine... especially after all the stress I've been through this week.
We only had to wait about five mins before getting seen, a nurse took down the details and then took us into a side room to try to find it with the doppler first. I told her I'd heard it too and she asked me where, so I showed her and we found the heartbeat straight away! PHEW! The midwife then came into the room laughing because she could already hear the heartbeat.
All a bit scarey for a bit but glad I was looked after well.
I'd phoned into the office to explain the appt hadn't gone well and had to speak to HR as couldn't get through to my boss - and have been having problems with my boss. A bit later I had a call from the HR manager telling me that she didn't want me to come back into work until I've seen a doctor and been told that I'm fit enough (i.e. not too stressed) to be at work. She's told me that it will go down as authorised leave, not sick or holiday, and will be on full pay. Its all a bit odd, after being under so much pressure for so long, and having to work under really hard conditions, I'm finally getting supported and being listened to, and helped.
Hopefully the rest of my pregnancy can be a little less stressful.
Sorry for major me, me, me post - there's just no-one I can really talk to about it in RL and it feels good to kind of put it out there.
Oh, and WRT the stress at work, they've said they've got no-where to move me to, so will either need to let my line director intervene (he didn't know about the issues until yesterday) and help ease the relationship between me and my boss, or they'll give me a package to leave with, as a kind of voluntary redundancy. I'm not sure why this is, unless its because I'd get a decent sum of money for bullying and harrassment or, they think this is preferable to the doc signing me off till maternity leave starts .