I finally met my doctor today and I really liked her. A bonus is that she speaks English very well so I didn't feel like I was straining to understand each thing she said. I told her about going in to the OB to get my membranes stripped with Anna and already being 6 cm dilated and how both my mom and sister had pretty quick deliveries with their second kids. So she said that at 39 weeks she wants me to come in every three days and once I am 3 cm they will admit me to the hospital. Part of me is OK with this plan, part of me is not. I mean, just because I was 6 cm when I went in for Anna doesn't mean that it was a quick trip from 3-6 cm. I told Craig that I am definitely going to be taking walks (on the treadmill so as to not get far away from home at all!) before those appointments so that at least I will feel like I've done as much as I can to help things along at home.

I did get to see Baby Girl again but they don't give you a printout so I can't share it with you. She is measuring on track and everything still looks good. I also passed my 1-hour glucose tolerance test.

Now on to the details of the visit: My appointment was for 8:15 but I also had to do the glucose tolerance test so I arrived at 8 AM wanting to get started on the test so I could leave at 9:15 or so (Craig stayed home with Anna for me since we knew this would be a longer appointment). I went to the OB desk and they said to go to the main reception to check in. I checked in and paid for the OB visit. Went back to the OB desk, they gave me a piece of paper to bring back to the main reception to pay for the glucose test. Why couldn't they have given that to me in the first place so I could just pay once, I do not know.

Someone took me over to the room to drink the glucose drink and when that was finished I went back to wait to see the doctor. (The receptionist tried to convince me to wait to see the doctor until after my glucose tolerance results were in but I said I'd rather just see the doctor now than wait twice.) I still had about thirty minutes to wait for the blood draw when I was finished with the doctor so I sat on a couch and just rested. Got the blood draw and was asked to wait for my results, they would be back in 15 minutes. 35 minutes later I met with some other random doctor and was told everything was normal. So, I was there for two hours and it would have been longer if I had listened to the receptionist to wait to see the OB until the results were in. I am so glad I didn't have Anna with me, but Craig was super late to his meeting because of all of that.

I go again in three weeks (2/20) and don't anticipate such an ordeal since it's just a regular checkup without any special tests being run. At some point, Craig & I need to get a tour of the labor & delivery rooms so I'll try to remember to ask about that next time.