Can’t find prenatal care
Kind of ranting here but just got off the phone and was told I don’t have really any options for prenatal care due to where I live.
A little back story is that in July my then boyfriend and I lived in 2 different cities 60 minutes away from one another and that town was a shit show and so he called his dad one day who he hadn’t talked to in years to see if he could move up north with him to try and find work seeing as the job market where he was living was pretty much a joke. His dad agreed to husband coming up and his 2yo daughter and even though it wasn’t brought up offered for me to join with them. I quickly assumed the role of stay at home mom and took care of my technically step daughter who’s 2 every day but felt uncomfortable with his father due to his being upset with almost all things we did in his house so I avoided him like the plague as to try and not upset him (turned out to do the complete opposite). December 2 husband went upstairs to do laundry and was gone for well over an hour and came down telling me that his dad told him that either I had to leave or all 3 or us were homeless with nowhere to go and no help from anyone by moving away from everyone that we did know and would help us. Husband chose me to leave and so I packed my things to get ready and just drank a shit ton of whiskey before I did my 3 hour drive back to my grandmas house where I would have to stay. Husband called the police bc I had intent to crash my car and was taken to the hospital for a psych evaluation where as routine you always get a pregnancy test and was informed I was pregnant told him over text and he came and got me because I was released due to it being written off as being emotional and circumstances really being fucked. Went to his fathers house where we told him and were hounded for close to 2 hours about us being idiots and not knowing how to raise kids and just nothing positive or supportive but his dad offered that I could remain living there considering the change in situation. (Just 4 weeks pregnant at that point hadn’t even missed my period yet) I however didn’t feel welcome and decided that I was going to leave regardless so I had a friend and her sister drive and get me and my friend drove my car down to where I’d be staying with family. That didn’t sit well with his father and he decided that husband and his daughter were no longer welcome to live in his house and had until the new year to be moved out. Now husband works 40-50+ hours a week at his job and so his grandmother and dad had to watch the baby which from what I was told they didn’t do that well especially with keeping up with her potty training. Then not even a week after I had left his father decided it wasn’t on him to watch the baby anymore so I had to drive up and get her and bring her to my family’s house and continue taking care of her as I was before. For moving we both decided that we didn’t have help up where he was and that his grandmother wanted him to abandon me like his daughters mom did them after her birth so we decided he’d have to put in his 2 week notice and we’d move down and be closer to my family and the family he still had down south. Only issue was neither of us had work and we didn’t have a place to stay once he came down because 9 people already lived where I was. I had already found an OB that I liked and had 2 appointments with him and then we decided that we needed the money from his job and the proof of income to get us on our feet and in an apartment. Found an apartment saved almost every penny that came our way and got approved and a move in date of December 29, just 27 bad days of being apart and being stressed and not really knowing if we’d be able to make it but it felt like years. I pack my car past capacity and drive 3 hours north to sign the lease and move into where we’d be calling home for the next year but the town we live in is the equivalent of a one house town nothing is really out here you have to drive 30 minutes to get to the grocery store one single main road nothing else. When we first moved up here I found us a doctors office though so on the 2nd I went and tried getting a referral to an ob so that I would be able to keep up with care especially due to having horrible cramping paired with hip and back pain that made it hard for me to walk or do anything. I just got off the phone being told that since the doctor I was referred to is in a different but still close town they won’t accept me and that they’d send my file to all of the hospitals and midwifes in the towns around us but they probably won’t accept either because of where we live but we don’t even have a doctors office in town that we can go to there isn’t even a emergency care center yet it’s being built and won’t be ready until December and I’m at a loss on as to what I’m going to do.
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