A Mummy-To-Be…

After my crappy appointment at the doctors this morning, I was pleased to hear from the midwife at 7pm tonight.

First of all, she congratulated me, more than I got from the doctor! She then went on to ask if it was my first baby and how far along I thought I was etc..

She said that my local doctors surgery didn’t have any appointments until August and as I would be more than 8 weeks by then, she wanted to get me in sooner. I think as a first timer, she would probably understand you’re very anxious, which is good.

She asked me if I would be able to make it to the actual Maternity Unit for my appointment, to which the answer was ‘yes’. I therefore, now have my first booking appointment on Monday 23rd July at 9.00am (13 days away). It should last around an hour and she will go through loads and loads of stuff with us. (Matt will of course be accompanying me as this is his baby too!!)

So, now I feel that it’s real. Well, I will when I go to my appointment at least. The midwife is called Helen and she sounded lovely. She said she looks forward to meeting me. She has no idea how much I want to meet her! LOL.

We managed to get our first doctors appointment this morning at 11.25am. The appointment lasted just 5 minutes and was generally pointless, really. At least we’re now registered as being pregnant and the Community Midwife will contact us in due course for our first booking appointment.

While I was there, the doctor took details…

Is this your first baby – Yes.
Is this your first pregnancy – Yes.
Then he asked how long Matt and I had been married – Er, we’re not married… so he asked how long we have been living together. I don’t understand why that’s of any importance to them but hey, I answered anyway that we had been together 7 years.
Are you taking folic acid – Yes.

He then went on to take my Blood Pressure which turned out to be the highest I have ever seen it at 146/74. I just looked and went “Wow! That’s well high for me” and told him it’s usually around 110/65. (I know.. I do it often!). He did it again and it was pretty much the same, so no doubt, they will have me down as having High Blood Pressure. Fantastic! Not…

Now I think about it, he didn’t even bother to ask me that date of my LMP or if I had done a home test. Ridiculous!

My usual BP reading… Proof Of..

I got home and did it again and it was elevated but has come down since. I am definitely one of those people who suffer from “white-coat-hypertension” (basically, your BP increases when seeing a doctor – just through anxiety). Not to mention that I am very anxious at the moment anyway about this whole “being and staying pregnant” thing anyway.

Well, I shall look forward to my call from the Midwife. I’m hoping she might be able to fit us in this week perhaps. We’ll see…

I always laughed at pregnant women who said that “pregnancy brain” had set it and it made them forget things and become a bit clumsy. Now it’s happened to me and I am still laughing.

I’ve been finding it hard stringing a sentence together for the past week. I forget where I’ve put things and then yesterday just topped it all off!

I had to ring Cahoot about my account and the woman asked me to confirm the fourth and fifth letters of my password, so I did. She then asked me “Was that M for Mother” so I said, “No, it’s N for…..” and could I think of a word beginning with N? Could I heck! I sat there for what seemed like an eternity trying and trying to think of a word that I could use to confirm the letter was ‘N’ and not ‘M’. I then started to feel a bit silly and laughed. I then told her the letter was ‘N’, not ‘M’, which I think by this point.. we had established.

I felt like such an idiot when I could hear her giggling down the phone and also Matt giggling behind me. I actually went red through embarrassment and told her that my brain just isn’t in gear at the moment. She was still giggling when I hung up. She has to call me back today so hopefully she will have forgotten about the letter ‘N’. At least today – I know a word… November! That’s what I am going to use and I will make sure I have a word sorted out for each letter in my password… just incase!

If this is me at less than 6 weeks, what on earth am I going to be like at 6 months! (I’ll be asking what my own name is!)

HELP!

Signed… “Embarrassed”