Ah, the differences between homebirth midwives and public hospitals is astounding, though standards seem to have gone down even further since I was pregnant with Amelia! I had some cramping Saturday night, so I thought I might as well go into the hospital and get it checked out (and maybe catch a glimpse of bub via ultrasound) but all they did was some bloods - after a six hour wait btw - and send me on my way with the promise of a u/s "on Monday". I got a phone call an hour ago saying they've made the appointment for Saturday, a full week after I was there. Gah, just as well I wasn't *that* worried about bub, more wanting to be sure *I* was okay, huh? Now it's just turned into "at least DH gets to see baby" for us, since I've felt some movement and checked the HB with my Doppler. He missed my 12w u/s and we weren't sure he'd get to be at another.

They also want me to go in to their Early Pregnancy clinic - no way in hell is that happening! They called yesterday and left a voicemail saying my appointment was this morning. Oops, sorry, I "don't check my voicemails" Even if I wanted to go, I couldn't have made it anyway, so stuff 'em. At least the radiology department were kind enough to ask me to confirm if I could do their appointment.

Oh yeah, and to do the bloods they put a cannula in (if you know me, you know how much I was internally screaming!) and when the doctor took it out she may as well have been torturing me. She tore the sticky pad thing off so roughly I was shaking, and if I hadn't tried distracting myself I think I would have yelled at her! They didn't even need it in after the initial bloods, so I had two hours of deep breathing and not being able to move my arm. Lovely!

Ha, I keep remembering ways they screwed up, sorry. After the cannula was out, the doctor told us to go back to the waiting room for her to get the last blood result - whether or not I have HcG in there What was the point of that?! After all that, did they think I was lying? Did they really think I would take my toddler to the hospital and make her wait with me until 4am for poops and giggles?!