Oh how I wish I could blog about so many inappropriate things related to pregnancy. I can dish on that all you want, just call me. But here, I will boil it all down for you right now. In it's truest form, pregnancy is the most basic and fundamental event in life. And the medical care that goes along with it is, for the most part, prehistoric at best.
Your first few prenatal visits you are just, shall we say, pregnant with anticipation. You wonder- what is the doctor going to tell me today? What will I learn about this growing baby? And the truth is, nothing. You get weighed, they check your blood pressure and you get 30 seconds to ask a question that warrants a reasonable answer. My doctor actually recommended that I get a good pregnancy book- as if to say, take your crazy questions to the index, not to me.
Eventually they get a little high tech and they start measuring your uterus. Just to clarify, they take a measuring tape and literally measure your belly. WHOA!
See where I'm going with this?
Sure you get the 18 week ultrasound and the 22 week glucose tolerance test. And early on they'll take some blood and you pee in a cup at every visit. But it has just baffled me throughout this entire experience, that in this day and age of major medical breakthroughs, the prenatal process is as archaic as it gets.
Maybe it's all testament to the fact that it is one of this world's greatest miracles, and as such there are some things we can never know. Like, when the heck is this baby really going to pop out of me??? I still can't believe they haven't figured that one out.
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