Switching doctors at 33 weeks...rant
I'm just beside myself. I'm high risk due to placental insufficiency and growth restriction. I'm having weekly ultrasounds to monitor the health of my little girl. I was to have my two week follow-up with my OB on the 26th at which time we were going to make the plan for my scheduled c-section for 37 weeks and start weekly visits at that time.
Well...I got a call yesterday that my OB is going out on early maternity leave, I didn't even know she was pregnant! So now they have ONE OB for the WHOLE practice and they are unable to get me in to see him until five days after the original appointment which is a couple days shy of three weeks since my last visit. This to me seems unacceptable because I'm high risk and am being watched so closely. Not to mention how safe is it that one OB is now managing an entire practice? Can I ensure that I will get the proper care given how overwhelmed he will be? Not to mention follow-up care after a c-section. Will I even be able to get into him to be seen or what happens if a problem should arise? I'm considering switching to a different practice at this point and I'm just devastated. I spoke with the clinic manager who says "there hands are tied" there is nothing they can do because they only have one provider now and that's the best they can do. The best they can do? What if my child has a bad outcome because that's the best they can do??
I know being emotional doesn't help, but I can't help feeling so overly protective of this little life I'm carrying inside me. Not to mention that I feel such terrible guilt already that I have done something wrong to cause her lack of growth.
Thanks for reading my rant and emotional vomit!
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