K___ went off to the hospital for her appointment with the consultant. As I mentioned in yesterday's entry, we had been warned that there might have been a bit of a hard sell on the whole having a baby at home thing. I dropped K___ off at the back of the hospital and went off to park up somewhere. With me still feeling like death warmed up and undoubtedly being infectious, I was still trying to minimise my contact with K___.
So, as predicted the doctor launched into a well-practiced spiel about home birth. One point he made was that the 'baby doctors' wouldn't come out to our house if there was some sort of problem with the birth. As K___ said, we know that the NHS is in dire straits, but we would have thought they could afford grown up doctors. Or perhaps he was being a bit patronising.
The doctors have to deal with people from all different backgrounds and some of them are undoubtedly the sort of people who believe that you can't get pregnant the first time, or if you do it standing up - how can I say this without sounding like deeply smug..? Thickos. Having said that, we would have thought that 'baby doctors' was what you said to someone who looked blank at the word obstetrician, not used as the standard term.
Suffice it to say that the quack did his best to turn K___ off the idea of a home birth. 'We've got lots of good stuff [in hospital]'. Makes it sound like he was trying to pedal hard drugs or something. 'We run a DOMINO service.' DOMINO stands for 'DOMiciliary IN and Out' means that primary healthcare during normal, problem free pregnancy is handled by the midwifery service. And you get delivery pizza (note to self, check this). I'm not quite sure how this was supposed to change K___'s mind. We're already experiencing the DOMINO service and they support K___'s wish for a home birth. It's all a bit silly really. If there's any medical reason why K___ shouldn't have the baby at home then of course she'll go into hospital. For the large part it washed over her like the 'waaah wah-wah' of the teacher from Peanuts. She remained unmoved.
She also got a short scan - less than a minutes apparently. The consultant checked for short scan
checked plenty of amniotic fluid and checked the position of the placenta. You may recall the placenta was lying a little bit low but like Dan Dan, Scan Man the consultant seemed quite happy with where it was. He listened to K___'s heart and breathing and checked her urine once again. This turned out to be a good thing. There was some sort of fancy-pants machine which did all the chemical analysis stuff but even better than that was at the end of it, they didn't insist K___ took away the wee bottle but issued her with another one.
One time when taking the piss was actually welcomed.
So, as predicted the doctor launched into a well-practiced spiel about home birth. One point he made was that the 'baby doctors' wouldn't come out to our house if there was some sort of problem with the birth. As K___ said, we know that the NHS is in dire straits, but we would have thought they could afford grown up doctors. Or perhaps he was being a bit patronising.
The doctors have to deal with people from all different backgrounds and some of them are undoubtedly the sort of people who believe that you can't get pregnant the first time, or if you do it standing up - how can I say this without sounding like deeply smug..? Thickos. Having said that, we would have thought that 'baby doctors' was what you said to someone who looked blank at the word obstetrician, not used as the standard term.
Suffice it to say that the quack did his best to turn K___ off the idea of a home birth. 'We've got lots of good stuff [in hospital]'. Makes it sound like he was trying to pedal hard drugs or something. 'We run a DOMINO service.' DOMINO stands for 'DOMiciliary IN and Out' means that primary healthcare during normal, problem free pregnancy is handled by the midwifery service. And you get delivery pizza (note to self, check this). I'm not quite sure how this was supposed to change K___'s mind. We're already experiencing the DOMINO service and they support K___'s wish for a home birth. It's all a bit silly really. If there's any medical reason why K___ shouldn't have the baby at home then of course she'll go into hospital. For the large part it washed over her like the 'waaah wah-wah' of the teacher from Peanuts. She remained unmoved.
She also got a short scan - less than a minutes apparently. The consultant checked for short scan
checked plenty of amniotic fluid and checked the position of the placenta. You may recall the placenta was lying a little bit low but like Dan Dan, Scan Man the consultant seemed quite happy with where it was. He listened to K___'s heart and breathing and checked her urine once again. This turned out to be a good thing. There was some sort of fancy-pants machine which did all the chemical analysis stuff but even better than that was at the end of it, they didn't insist K___ took away the wee bottle but issued her with another one.
One time when taking the piss was actually welcomed.
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