Okay so here we are in Mexico choosing doctors. I had a list of five doctors and in the end chose the one reccommended by the woman who did our cultural seminar in Paris, a chic Mexican lady who looked like she knew her doctors. Well actually he was just the first on my long confusing list, voila.
I met the doctor today at what was my 7 month appointment, a sixty something year old man with shaky english. I probably wouldn't choose to stay with him if it weren't for the fact that I am running out of time. He was nice and helpful enough and between Seb's Spanish and his English we got throught the appointment okay. My big complaint is he just seemed a little on the fuddy-duddy side. He really irked me when he said that forcep births are usually repeated in the second birth and then asked me which type were used on Little S's birth, as if I'd thought to ask during the time I had over 3 kilos of human being stuck in my loins. I told him I had no plans to ever hear the word forceps again if possible. I felt like he was asking so he could order them ahead of time!
The doctor was overall much more attentive than Dr. Stonehenge, poking me and asking how I felt and whether my back hurt or if I had headaches. He even gave me a helpful lift off the table after my ultrasound and wiped the gooey gel off my stomach, something Stonehenge had never even thought to do in all my visits. He gave me his cell phone number, home number and another emergency paging number. He encouraged me to call at whatever time of the day or night and whatever day I needed him.
He also did a fuzzy ultrasound, you know the kind that only the doctor can read. Little Sushi is measuring fine, right on target and looking healthy. Unfortunately she's still breach and as much as I had hoped she would turn by now, she hasn't yet. I guess there's still time but I had really hoped she'd do it and be done with it but she's being stubborn. Don't they run out of room around this time? I just don't want her to get all tangled in her cord trying to turn. The doctor thought we still had lots of time.
Strangely enough the doctor didn't do an internal exam. I do have lots of cervix pressure so I would have liked him to have a peek but it didn't seem like something he does until later.
Otherwise we're living in a hotel and waiting on the truck to bring our things from France, including all the baby things. We'll move in to our house once the things arrive. I sort of thought I might get a few newborn things just in case she shows up early and the truck doesn't. I'm just hoping that the timing will work out and we'll get the room set up with no problems and a week or two to spare, even though we have to paint the crib and finish sewing the bedding and curtains and lots of other things.
My next appointment is in early October.
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Pooh on your doctor. Small Boy was forceps, too, and my OB made a point of telling me afterward that how my first delivery went doesn't mean anything for how future deliveries might go. I've never heard once a forceps always a forceps - it's usually the baby's position. If they tuck their chins into their necks the head circumference is up to 2 cm smaller and more bullet-shaped (ie easier to push out)! If they're looking up and out, well, ouch.
oh I think he was thinking narrow pelvis that's all. I do have a friend who had three kids and all three were forceps deliveries because the babies would all get blocked in her pelvis. Anyway maybe that had something to do with why asked this stupid question about forcep names.
I like the bullet baby imagerie. I'm going to focus on that!
Well, all in all, it sounds like it went OK. Hopefully, he won't be gun-ho about forceps during delivery. E had to be vacuumed out, but M was an easy delivery despite being a bigger baby. Also M was breach until 34 weeks. Miss Sushi has time.
Glad to see that you are settled in Mexico.
Hi, I just stumbled across your blog and haven't had a chance to read it all yet, but I wanted to say hi. I am an Australian living in Northwest Mexico and I had my second baby here in January this year (my first baby was born in the Middle East). She was a caesarian birth which I chose, partly because my first was an emergency caesarian after a long labour with a failed epidural - not something I was keen to repeat. I was really happy with my OB/GYN and felt confident with the "medical" side of it, but I had a hard time with the nurses in the hospital - I had to fight quite hard to keep my baby in my room. They would only let me keep her overnight if they called every 4 hours to check if she'd fed (Can you beleive it?) and they were not at all supportive of breastfeeding - even the OB/GYN was concerned that my baby would starve while waiting for my milk to come in! I felt like they were working off 30 year old advice for breastfeeding. Even after repeatedly telling the nurses not to give her a bottle, my husband still caught them in the act when she was only a few hours old. Apart from a quick cuddle in the theatre I didn't see her for 4 hours (I was going crazy!)after she was born. The saving grace was that I had found a paediatrician who was supportive and I asked him to tell the nurses "no formula". It seemed they would listen to him, not to me. If you are keen to breastfeed (don't want to assume anything) my advice would be to find a paediatrician who will back you up (to exclusively breastfeed) before the baby comes so that its all in place when you deliver, and don't be afraid to fight for what you want! Easier said than done when you've just had a baby, so maybe have your husband ready to fight for you too! I hope this doesn't scare you too much, all in all I had a very positive birth experience (huge improvement on the first time) but I was glad to get home from the hospital and be able to do things my way. Please feel free to email me (roamingaussiemum[at]gmail[dot]com) if you have any questions. Obviously a lot of it depends on the doctor and the hospital, but I'm happy to give any advice I can.
Please, please, don't get me started on the American healthcare coverage (or lack thereof!).
I really hope it all works out for you. Be it in the US, or Mexico.
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