Ob Appointment

Our first appointment with the obstetrician, Dr Karen Chandler, was a blessing. We heard your heartbeat beating furiously at 165 bpm. The hospital is just 2 minutes away from home, colorful and at ease. Nothing like those noisy, waiting room full with patients and rushing nurses we generally see at hospitals. Well maybe we stepped in at a different minute. I hope my very first delivery experience will not be a nightmare. Then again, one can only hope.

The midwife, Sarah is very pleasant. That's a plus. Dr Chandler may still be on leave if the baby decides to come out a week earlier than April 25th, in which case I'll also be meeting her team, Dr Carolyn Marlow and Dr Tracey Bradbury whom will be in charge in such case. I made it clear that I'd prefer to meet and know these doctors first so during delivery there'll be no strangers to me in the room. Yeah, I'm a very fussy patient. You can tell.

I have very little tolerance for pain. I hate medicines. I get very jittery and nervous going for appointments every time. Only Daddy understands. For you baby, I'll take one step at a time and do my best to overcome any obstacle given. Besides, we do plan to handover playmates for you in the future. But like Dr Frearson mentioned, we spent our adolescent years planning and putting our actions as we planned, living pretty predictable lives.. then comes babies and children, and everything seem to go in every opposite direction as they can. Good luck. I've to agree with her. Everything's not so easy to predict anymore.

I've scheduled a routine ultrasound at 20 weeks and the next ob appointment on Raya Haji. By then everyone will be here and it'll be chaos. Somehow, I don't mind much =)

p/s: Pink's concert in May 09. I sooooooo wanna go!!!!!!! Do you mind leaving at home with a babysitter for a while, baby? Oh shoot, anyone wanna babysit!? Sigh. Fat chance, huh? :p