Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The Ultrasound
I had a dumb ultrasound day. It all started with Ann being late getting home so I was late getting to the clinic. I had to wait for her because Adriel was in bed. We had a conversation about half and hour before when I told her exactly when I needed her to be home and she was over ten minutes late. The lady was rather unfriendly at the desk and gave me a sheet of paper to read over with Kyle. Kyle was already there when I got there. I sat next to him and said "apparently we're supposed to read this together," in which he just blinked at me and went back to his magazine. So I began reading. It was talking about how I'd go in by myself for the first bit and then the tech would call Kyle in. Yada yada, right? I was barely a few sentences into the two paragraphs I was supposed to read, when a hurried male tech came out and called my name. I wasnt sure if I should have finished reading the piece of paper, but it's not as if I could tell the guy to wait a minute.
He wasn't mean. He wasn't overly friendly or helpful either. He was all about the business. He informed me that my baby's face was facing down toward my back which made it hard to get anything clear of the face. He let me know when he was measuring the arms and the legs, not that it mattered because I couldnt see the screen. Finally he let Kyle in and he briefly showed us things. He didn't let us look for very long. I'd say Kyle was in there with us for a total of three minutes. And the tech guy said a brief goodbye, told me where the washroom was and left. What we could see of the baby was nice. It was lying with it's legs curled under it's stomach. Sort of a classic pose I guess. I just had some expectations because when I was pregnant with Adriel, his head was turned the same way for my ultra sound, but the lady worked with me, in trying to get him to move and she got a good profile shot. She also let Kyle and I look for a long time. We saw his limbs move and we saw him yawn. It was cute and special. And this being most likely my only ultrasound for this baby, I sort of had some expectations. I know the head was turned and it wasnt the tech's fault, but he didnt even try to do anything to turn it. Anyway, we went out and I was confused about the pictures. I knew I would have to pay because they started doing that, but I wasnt sure how I was supposed to get them. So I went to the front to ask and the unfriendly lady told me I was supposed to let my tech know I wanted pictures. I didnt know that. It was probably on the dumb sheet that I had no time to read. I told her I didn't realize that and she stared at me blankly as if there was nothing she could do, so I turned to leave feeling the tears about to come. The whole experience had been so dumb. She then said she could talk to the tech and get something printed. She started to get softer when she realize she just about made the pregnant lady cry. It cost us ten dollars. Kyle was trying to get me to tell him what was wrong all the while and I didn't want to talk about it because the tears were still right there. I'm such an emtional pregnant mess sometimes!!! I knew the pictures wouldnt be that great because it's not like the guy knew, or tried to take any good clear still shots. And they're not. I don't even know what some of them are of, and they arent labeled like my Adriel ones. Kyle had to rush back to work (he came in all the way from parksville to see three minutes of ultrasound) so I had to wait for the pictures myself.
sigh.
I know I over reacted but I was excited about my ultrasound and it was so disappointing. Sorry for the complaining.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 2:22 PM