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11-6-2009 - First OB Appt

My mood while writing this blog: curious

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At 6wks 4d I have my first OB appt. It's the earliest I've ever seen a doctor in all of my 3 pregnancies! Too early to hear a heartbeat, so it will probably be just an annoying, blood drawing, questionaire answering chore.

But I'm still kinda excited!

Although in my excitement I got up and ran downstairs to do a load of laundry and by the time I got up the stairs I was racing to throw the laundry down and make it to the bathroom in time to dry heave into the toilet. I really thought if I had ANYTHING to come up it would.

Oh... Yay...

But I managed to lay down and breath, and then eat a granola bar. I really didn't want to eat anything sugary before the appointment because I don't wanna have to do the sugar test! I hate that test! 3-4 hours of waiting to get your blood drawn repeatedly. I've had it with both pregnancies, and it never ended up meaning anything!

Of course now that I'm 15 years older and fatter then my first pregnancy, I do worry. My coworker had a baby over a year ago, and we are the same age. She had to do all the diabetic stuff through her whole pregnancy. I know she really had to struggle. We work 12 hour shifts and don't always have time for actual meals, much less snacks. But she did have the advantage of working days, where if you can't make it to the cafeteria for a hot lunch at lunch time, they bring some down to you.

On nights, when I work, no such luck. NONE. You don't make it to the break room to get your vending machine lunch, you don't eat. Not until you clock out in the morning and leave! There are only two of us on nights, 3 nurses on days and a ward clerk to put their orders in and call their docs and print their orders for the docs. On nights, we do it all. So I'm in NO way going to be able to do it as well!

Guess I'm going to have to bring a LOT of finger foods, snack things that can sit out. Only problem with that is you end up feeding anyone who walks through the department and the docs. They just eat whatever is sitting out, even if it's on a plate sitting in front of you!

So if I bring like chex mix, I will have to bring a bag every shift or two. Expensive. Or I can put some in little baggies and tuck it in my pocket and hope I don't have gross patients, which is unlikely. Sigh...

Once I even had a doc open up a tied Kroger sack I brought. I had tied it to make sure my food would still be there after midnight when we normally get to eat. And by 7:20pm he'd already untied it and had several things open and sitting out for everyone on days and evenings to eat! Needless to say I snapped, but I didn't have anything I wanted for supper. Vending machine time, so glad I got to feed day shift before they left!

Just wait till they mess with a pregnant woman's food!

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