Not so nice doc visit

I had my second last doc visit before my c-section today. I was hoping that my one twin could have flipped into the vertex position too. But alas not only did the twins flip, but twin a is in a transverse position and twin b in a breech!!!! So there went all hope for natural birth. But the most devestating news was that my gyn/ob is going to be away for the next week and a half!!!!! he will be back in time for the c-section but not should i go into labour before the time. :shok:

I dont know about anyone else, but I really do not want another doctor delivering my babies, not after the journey I walked with my doc.. dh says i should not get upset about it, but i just feel uncomfortable with another doc. After all, a gyn/ob doc is a very private affair. :huh:
Is dh right or do i have a right to feel cheated a bit.

 

:hug99: I'm so sorry that things don't seem to be going your way! I'm sure that having a c-section is stressful enough (at least for me it is.) Much less having to deal with a different dr. I will keep my fingers crossed that nothing happens between now and the time your OB returns and I hope he can section your babies for you!

 

I don't blame you, I would feel the same way. :hug99:

 

I don't blame you at all!
THAT'S exactly what happened to me!!!!
First I had a C-section tentively scheduled for Oct 5th. At my last appointment, on Sept. 20th he said that the ultrasound looked like they'd be ready anytime now so he moved the Date up to Sept. 30th. I thought about asking if it could be sooner if it looked like they'd be ready. I should have because then he would have TOLD ME that he was going to be out of town. When my water broke around midnight on the 24th, I called his clinic. The nurse said, she was going to talk to the doctor and I should call her back in 5 minutes (I was on a cell phone and they are really expensive here, so that's why I didn't hold) while she contacted the doctor. When I called back she said he said I should come in right away. It wasn't until I was at the clinic that I realized "the doctor" was not my doctor but a nother covering his patients, in fact it was a G.P! not an OBGYN. I'm still kind of miffed about it, because as you said, after the long journey through the pregnancy--he missed the grand final!

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you're babies are able to stay put.

 

The good thing is that from a medical perspective c/s are much more routine and less risky in terms of the doctor's performance than a vaginal delivery for twins would have been... I hope you can hold out too...it is a bummer to get someone you don't know well. But I have known many women who had to deliver with a stranger b/c of emergency situations...and they wound up getting really attached to their delivering doctor in spite of it all. It's possible to get a doctor with such an instantaneously obvious good bedside manner that it won't bother you so much....sorry about the twins flipping... I've been there.. my baby A flipped at 34 weeks from vertex to transverse...

 

Just like the pp said, I am one of those people that had a different dr at delivery and LOVED him!! I had met him once before and didn't like him even close to as much as my reg dr. Wouldn't you know I went into labor on the only day off my dr had in 3 months!! It turned out to be great and the experience was perfect. If I had to do it over, I would have picked the delivering dr!
Good Luck - don't stress, all energy into healthy babies!

 

I had a natural birth with my DS and since it all progressed very fast, they could not find my Dr when I was ready to start pushing, so they pulled in a Midwife from the same practice and she delivered him. By this point I did not even care, after all the losses, dr.s visits, visits to L&D for BP issues, I had so many visitors "down below" I was ready to open a gift shop.

All the real hard stuff is done, all the pre-nat care. The rest is all up to ma nature, and what is a routine surgery.

I never did find out where the looser Dr was, and I only saw him for about 10 mins hours after the birth.

 

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I never did find out where the looser Dr was, and I only saw him for about 10 mins hours after the birth.
Gosh, I hope he wasn't in the middle of some life or death issue that he is now being called a loser for!

Sorry to hear about your doc being away, mine was going away too but K&K conveniently decided to even let him have one day back at work before they decided to join the world . I hope it works out the same for you but if for some reason it doesn't, I am sure you will be in great hands. There are lots of deliveries that aren't done by the mom's OB just due to circumstances, although we all hope we aren't one of them! Just tell those babies to stay put !

 

I am sorry!! I am really hoping for a vaginal birth, too, but fully realize it may not happen. My baby B is breech right now, and my OB absolutely won't let me deliver vaginally in that circumstance.

I had an OB that I just loved during my first pregnancy, and it turned out his grandmother died the day before I went into labor, so he was out of town. I was SO bummed at the time, esp. because I didn't really like his partner who delivered. It turned out, though, that the baby had to come out with forceps -- and this doc was particularly skilled at that procedure. So, although I didn't care for him personally, we were thankful later that he was the one who delivered....

My own OB did stop by the hospital the next day to apologize, and to see the baby -- I thought that was very sweet of him. And now, three years later, the "experience" of it all doesn't matter to me in the least!

 

This was really good for me to read...I am in the same boat as we speak. I was transfered to a hospital over an hour away from my normal hospital because my cervix is thinning out considerably and they don't have the means to carry for babies before 34 weeks there (I am 33.2 weeks UGH). So, here I sit on hospital bed rest with all new nurses, docs. etc. and my doctor at my normal hospital left for vacation yesterday morning, so I can't even talk with here. Just hoping I can make it to 34 weeks and get transfered back. I feel so out of sorts here.

I think it's just hard to alter/adjust your plan when you've had it one way in your head all throughout your pregnancy. Hang in there lady...I totally understand what you are going through.

 

My babies were in the same position as yours are now. When you are in the surgery, you can't even see the doctor because of the drape they put up, so anybody could have been "down there" and I wouldn't have known it! C-sections are so much faster that you don't spend any time with the doctor honestly. I saw mine right before they wheeled me in and then she stopped in to check on me while I was in recovery. Once those babies are out, you forget about everything and everyone anyway and just gaze at your little ones. Good luck!

 

This happened to me when I was having the twins. I love my ob, he is wonderful, but he was on vacation the week they scheduled my c/s. I ended up having them a week before and getting a doctor from the practice that I had never seen before....

Hopefully, you will hold on until he gets back.

 

our OB practice (since there are 5 dr's) makes you rotate through at least once in case you are in this type of situation so that you are familiar with all the doctors...there were 2 doctors I saw the most though (just because of when my appts were scheduled) but I got to see each doctor at least once...

 

I know change can be very stressful. You have every right to feel a bit cheated. Hopefully, you will make it until your doctor comes back. If not, I am sure he is leaving you to someone he trusts.