Prenatal Visit

If you're interested in my pity party read on.

Well, I had a prenatal visit yesterday afternoon. I never expect to have a particularly good time there, but I wasn't prepared for what happened. After the inevitable thirty minutes past my appointment time, I get called back to take my vitals. Temperature: normal, Weight: normal, Blood Pressure: High normal. I didn't think it was that big of a deal. My blood pressure was high last time, and it has been for the past three or four weeks. 139/80-ish may be a little high, but it's still in the normal range. Apparently this was cause for me to spend an hour waiting isolated in a room so they could retake it. And guess what? Nothing changed, thanks for wasting my time! 

Next comes time to check the baby's heartbeat. Finally something relaxing, right? Think again. It took the nurse ten minutes to find my baby's heartbeat! Do they really think that is supposed to help with my blood pressure? She finally finds it and it was about 156. Three weeks ago it was 175, so it's nice to see that it finally came down a little bit.

After all the poking around in my personal life, it was time for a lecture. "Don't eat any processed food, no salt, no soda or tea, bla bla bla. All fresh fruits and vegetables for you. Oh, and come in Friday morning so we can check your kidney function." What? Seriously? Why do they need to do this? So basically they want to lower my blood pressure by not letting me eat any of the foods I love and worrying me to death about my kidneys! 

So I left the doctor's office almost in tears because I can't believe how horrible it was. At least they scheduled my ultrasound for three weeks from now. We hope to find out if the baby is a boy or a girl. I'm really excited and I desperately hope this next appointment goes much better.