So after my last really depressing post, I was ready to write a really cheerful one yesterday. I was in such a good mood (despite some gross news at the Dr.'s) and I kept putting writing it off in favour of other things.
...and then Mr. Wolfman came home and announced that instead of having the next two days off (the last time off he'd have before the arrival of the little monster, the first days off he would have had in 5 weeks), he's decided to stay at his second job until Sunday. Which means no days off and 16 hour days all weekend. He won't be off again until my due date.
So, I have to apologize, but this is not going to be a happy post.
Went for my (hopefully final) prenatal checkup with my Dr. Ladyhouse on Tuesday, only to find out that Dr. Ladyhouse wasn't there and no one had bothered to call me. They did keep the appointment with another Dr., who was pretty good, although I think I prefer Dr. Ladyhouse because she seems more straightforward.
Except. On the subject of straightforwardness... I found out from my last visit with Dr. Illegible that I'm Group B+, which means that I have a nasty bacteria (which actually most people have) in my lady parts, and both he and Dr. Ladyhouse had explained that if I had this bacteria, they would need to start me on antibiotics as soon as either a) my water breaks or b) I go into labour. What neither of them bothered to mention, but the other Dr. did, was that if my water breaks first, they'll induce me with oxytocin.
Not effing impressed. Not just that I may have to be induced, because I understand that there's a medical reason that they can't do anything about. Even though I really, really do not want an induction, I can recognize that it might turn out to be a necessity. But is there a reason they couldn't have told me that before? Like, say, when they told me about the Group B test... or, I don't know, when my results came back POSITIVE? And now I'm just realizing that they're probably going to try to make me deliver in the hospital bed, because they'll want to keep me hooked up to the antibiotics for my whole labour (no one told me this either, I had to Google it).
If they do have to induce me, the pain is going to be way worse, which I can deal with, but it also greatly increases the chances of distress to the little monster and hugely raises the chances that I'll need a C section. And I feel like if they force me to labour on my back, they may as well just cut me open and save the time, because that's just an illogical position to give birth in. I mean, look at all other animals (and most other humans). There's a reason they don't give birth that way. Gravity, people. Dr. Ladyhouse already told me that if I need a C section they'd give me an epidural because it's safer than general anesthetic, which is lovely, but I have relatives for whom the epi did literally nothing, so I'm thinking that's not necessarily going to be an option.
Between this crap and the fact that Mr. Wolfman and I are now not even going to have one day to spend together to get stuff ready (he's been working 2 jobs since before we moved into our current place, so we still don't even have our apartment set up normally, let alone ready for a baby) and enjoy our last moments of young couplehood, I'm just a weepy mess. I feel totally overwhelmed and I can't even figure out what I could be doing, if I had enough energy to do it. Which I don't, because on top of everything else, I'm sick.
Oh, and it was -6 when I got up this morning. It's not even the 10th of September.
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