Your Baby is Abnormal

[CaroPhoenix]

Yeah, I'd say new doctor too. Do not pass "Go" do not collect $200. That speedy to a new doctor.

I shall tell you a story of when I was pregnant.

I went from barely looking pregnant at all, to OMG! I swallowed 37 beachballs. Anyway, doc wanted to make sure everything was kosher inside and had me do another sonogram at 8 months.

Sonogram tech is moving the little sonogram thing over my belly, pointing out butt, legs, arms, torso, and then she say "Uh oh. I can't find the head."

WTF????

I'm 8 months pregnant and you can't find the head!? Turns out Child Rum was locked and loaded in the birth canal.

Whew.

But really ... Telling an 8 month pregnant woman you can't find your baby's head??? Yeah ... not good.

But I can laugh about it now.

But yeah ... friend needs new doc. STAT.

[iradney]

new doctor, new doctor NOW! and if that doctor works for a practice, I would let them know why I'm looking for health care elsewhere. My Dad is a doctor, and he works very hard on his bedside manner to make sure his patients are comfy and understand everything. People like this make his head explode.

[ArcticChicken]

She's finding a new doctor, yes? 'Cause I can tell you right now that a doctor that did that to me would be out on her ass, even if it meant I had to find a new doctor while I was in labor.

[surreal20]

Yea, that dr is a jerk.

Let me tell ya a story about me when i was a fetus. *relayed to me by my mother*

Mom has endometriosis. When she was 24 the dr told her if she and dad wanted to have children, they needed to do it now, or they may never have any. So the tried, and BOOM i'm conceived.

Later on, in a regular check up, the Dr. sits down with my mother and father and explains to them that I'm not developing the way i should. I'm small for the gestation period, and that he believes that there is something seriously wrong with me. He also says, that it may be a good idea to think about abortion.

(Now, this will not and SHALL NOT get into the discussion of abortion. I will not see it here. It is just relevant to the story.)

So once my parents heard this, they thought for just a moment and said "This is my child. I may never have a second chance. I will keep her just as she is, and i will deal with whatever comes when it comes." (yay mom ) (she also later on had 2 more sons, yay brothers )

Skip 24 years later (present day) I'm a healthy 5 foot 3 inch tall women. Nothing developmentally, physically, or mentally wrong with me. I am as average a person as average can get! Though, to be far, i WAS a little under developed when i was born. And only in the length department.

Stayed very small until i was 2, i wasn't even 20 lbs until i reached year 2. I'm also the shortest one in my family. My mother is 5 foot 6 and dad is 6 foot 2.


All in all..your roommate's child is going to be just fine. And even if they ARE going to have issues, your roommate will be able to deal with is. She'll be a wonderful mother. I just know it.

[Gaki]

Oooh, new section and I think this one should fit here. I was deciding for a long time whether I should post it but I think, since this is here, I will.

My roommate is well into her first pregnancy right now and of course is going through all the woes of pregnancy (and all the awesomeness too, the little fetus kicked me in the face!) So she wobbles her way to the doctor's to get numerous tests done and all that wonderfulness. She sits down in the little room and the doctor comes in and for the whole monologue that the doctor is telling her, she's not listening.

Why?

Because the first thing the doctor said was, "You're baby is abnormal." Then she windingly talks about other things and is all over the place in her little monologue, leaving my roommate wondering if her baby is going to LIVE properly or not and then at the END of this giant story time the doctor is giving her it is said, "He's a little fat."

...A little fat? THAT warranted the word "abnormal?!" She came home in tears over this and just yesterday she went in and asked a different doc whether or not her baby was fat and the doc looked at her and said,

"No...he's the perfect size."