omg nikki that scared me just reading aboout it, Im so glad they are both OK. It must be even harder with the sorts of injures your see and hear about through work. I never would have thought a child could die from falling from a high chair either.

Well, my appt yesterday was interesting. It was nothing like the booking in appt I had at my previous hospital, where I filled out lots of forms, answered lots of questions etc.

While I waited for an hour to see the doctor, I overheard the name of the OB I have a complaint in about mentioned 2-3 times by the reception staff and had a mini panic attack tat I might have to see him. I didnt even know he worked out of the hospital (will have to talk to midwife about this), so was a bit relieved when a female doctor called my name.

My relief somewhat short lived and replaced my confusion as it took her 3 tries to take my blood pressure. I dont know if this was because it was 100/60 and she was just re-checking or not, becuase she didnt say anything.

She looked at my ankles and commented at how swollen they looked. My ankles arent swollen. I know I'm not petite, but they also arent that big either. She decided to poke them, which hurt as it was directly on to bone, at which point she must have decided that they really were not swollen.

At least she was very thorough with the physical exam, even though she barely spoke.

Then she tried to listen to the baby's heartbeat with the doppler u/s. After about a minute of her not being able to find the baby's heatbeat she disapppeared and came back with a mobile ultrasound machine.
I'm glad it was not my first pregnancy, because she didnt utter a word the entire time. If i didnt already have a fair idea of what was happening i think i would have really freaked out.
She then managed to find the baby, heart beating away and moving around. HR was at the lower end of normal at 120 though, so lets just say I'm more nervous about my 18 week scan than I was before.