HA No pun intended for my title!
So back in November of 2009, I found out that I was pregnant...wait wait wait...WHAT?!?!?! Freak out mode...Andy is there I am here....what the heck amd I gonna do...? Well after the shock went away I realized I will be okay, Ive got a great support system and Hey i mean its not exactly like we were preventing it. So fast forward...first appointment...Dec 17, 2009...Congratualtions you are pregnant...here is a midwife who specializes in gynecology. OKay awesome...except for the fact that everything she knew was what she read from a book. She didnt have kids. Then my next appointment came...January 21, 2010....Different doctor...so now I had to explain everything all over again...ya know the typical questions..."when was the first day of your last menstrural period...are you in any pain...is this your first pregnancy...have you ever been pregnant before (seems like the answer to the last one would answer that question)...?" But whatev so I answer all her questions and she looks at my chart and says okay we will see you next month...Ummm ok....didnt tell me anything about what i should be doing or what was abnormal or what was normal...Just see ya later...Did I ask...YES!!! Oh dont worry you will be just fine she said....well fast forward about oh i say about 4 months....same dr oh wait no i am sorry midwife who didnt have any kids..." hi how are you feeling today?" "well i am having these pains and i dont know what they are..." "Oh dont worry you are fine..." WHAT?!?!?!? Um no!! She didnt ask me what they were where the were or what it felt like...just oh you will be fine...this same MIDWIFE who had never experienced this before...Hmmm....Can i get a real Dr please? No oh ok....your in the military this is completely normal...Lets just say child birth was nothing compared to the 9 months of hell i went thru because my "doctor" "midwife" what the heck ever she was is an idiot. So then I had to deal with whether my husband who was really the only family I had out her was going to be there when I gave birth to our child...Apparently, in the navy having a baby isnt like a life or death situation even though it is not something thats routine crap could happen and i had no family other that him here....hmmm...but those of you that know me know that I ranted and raved and pitched a fit and got what i wanted.....so 9 aggravating painful terrorizing months later....it was that special day when I knew it was time for me to have Miss Rylee...so I am in the room getting ready to ya know do everything and they say oh we have interns...can they watch...I am thinking umm...hmmm....NO! But it was only one little girl and she was sweet as can be and I hope i helped her learn...Rylee comes out and is more beautiful than I ever imgained....so i go to my recovery room and I am still pretty drugged up from the nite before and i still kinda have some of my epidural numbness...well that starts to wear off about 330 in the afternoon and all the navy wants to give me is tylenol...not ibuprofen...TYLENOL!!! ARe you kdding me I just pushed a damn watermelon out of my vagina and you think Tylenol is going to cure that pain...and then theres also those postpartum contractions OH HELL NO!!! Well all i got was tylenol until I left the hospital and then they gave me a huge bottle of ibuprofen and some birth control pills....thanks guys...bc i am so gonna do that again real soon!!! NOT!!! Anywho so this was my story of having a baby in the military not too different...but different enough to know that next time I am doing this in the civilian world...LOL!
This made me laugh! In a good way. Both my parents were in the Navy and I was born into it and I was an accident too haha It is so interesting to hear the differences from back then when my mom had me to today when you had your daughter. You and my mom should chat haha! :)
ReplyDeleteThat crap with the midwife is hilarious! I can totally picture you getting all frustrated!
ReplyDeleteI will never forget the day that Rylee was born. I was driving back and forth from my apartment to Time Warner Cable's office in San Marcos dealing with my stupid Internet. I was crying in the car because I was so happy! I was tearing up with the Time Warner people, and they were are like, "Are you ok?" And I told them about you and Rylee.
Crazy times! Love you!