33w1d

Well, I think Dr. B* might actually be redeeming himself lol I keep flip-flopping between really not liking him, and giving him the benefit of the doubt, and today I'm leaning more towards giving him the benefit of the doubt.

I asked him to glance over my birth plan and he didn't have any problems except with the wording on one item -- the internal monitoring. I had worded it something similar to "internal monitoring to be implemented, upon our consultation, in a life-threatening situation only" and he said that his concern was that sometimes you don't know it's life threatening until you've done the monitoring. So I asked him if he would prefer it worded similar to "internal monitoring to be implemented, upon our consultation, only after external monitoring is inconclusive" or something like that and he said it was fine. So I said something like "Well the big issue is that someone discuss it with us first"... His response? "Oh we always discuss what we're going to do before we do it" Ha!

I laughed and looked him dead in the eye and said "well, you didn't last time". He looked surprised but didn't push the issue (good for him because I would have let him have it -- the internal monitoring without consultation was one of the biggest reasons I disliked him after James' birth)

But, he didn't balk at the hypnosis part, nor about the not clamping the cord immediately, nor about not having an IV, which were the three most important parts to me :)

So, one doc down, three to go :P I see Dr. E* in two weeks, so we'll see if he's as understanding. I'm trying to decide if I want to try to get all four doctors to sign my birth plan. Dr. B* signed the back no problem, so I'm thinking that the others will too, but I'm not sure I want to risk one of them not signing. But, I've got two weeks to decide on that :)

But, Sprout is still head down, heart rate is 140, kicking like an octopus :) I'm running out of room to breathe, but I don't mind. I know I'll miss it once s/he's out :)