waiting game

[Miss.B]

Hello and congratulations on your pg!! I hope it all goes well for you

[Danielle-Marie]

hi & congratulations!!

i find it tough waiting at the start as well - i keep doing HPTs every day until i'm about 7 weeks to get me through until it's almost time for the first scan it gets expensive!!

wishing you a very H&H PG

Thank you!!! We have tri care prime so we wont be paying anything for our appointments, and scans, and birth, thanks to the army =) But I am sure we will make all of that money up in baby things!

Hello and congratulations on your pg!! I hope it all goes well for you

Thank you so much!

[little_O]

Congratulations!

I was the same as you and hated waiting. Especially when you've been trying for a few months!! Do you get private cover through the army? like any choice where you go or what ob you get?

I researched ob's and hospitals in the meantime. Also a pregnancy book is good because it keeps you updated even in the early stages!

xxxxxxx

[Danielle-Marie]

Congratulations!

I was the same as you and hated waiting. Especially when you've been trying for a few months!! Do you get private cover through the army? Like any choice where you go or what ob you get?

I researched ob's and hospitals in the meantime. Also a pregnancy book is good because it keeps you updated even in the early stages!

xxxxxxx

Well,.... We are stationed in South Korea, so I don't have a choice in hospitals!! There is only one hospital and one OB clinic, which stresses me out at times. Its hard to fit everyone in, and they cannot do c sections are deal with any complications so if your pregnancy has a complication then you are sent to an off post hospital where things are 100% different. Your doctor and nursing wont speak english (they will provide and interpreter) and they view on pain management and control is a LOT different. They do NOT like to give epidurals, and after baby is born they want to take baby away right away so mom can rest and keep baby in a nursery. Im not really OK with any of that but we don't have much options =/I have thought about going stateside for the third trimester but Im really not liking that either because that means I would have to take a baby on a 13 hour flight back to my home here. Its all very stressful and scary and this time, but Im just pushing that to the back of my mind for now and taking one day at a time!

[Danielle-Marie]

Congratulations!

I was the same as you and hated waiting. Especially when you've been trying for a few months!! Do you get private cover through the army? like any choice where you go or what ob you get?

I researched ob's and hospitals in the meantime. Also a pregnancy book is good because it keeps you updated even in the early stages!

xxxxxxx

We get coverage through the army. Im very limited, in fact only one OB available in the area!! We are stationed in Seoul, South Korea for about another year and 7 months or so. There is only one hospital and one OB office. so its a bit nerve racking. And they are not equipped to handle any complications, SO if anything happens, like a c section, I would be taken to a hospital off base where the doctors and nurses are Korean and don't speak english. they do provide an translator. And Koreans have another view on pain tolerance. Pain is part of the healing process... =/ Im nervous about this type of thing!!!