A new baby is like the beginning of all things, hope, a dream of possibilities.

I think this is the only time in my life where I will be proud to proclaim or state that I am getting "fat"!  My tummy is starting to really protrude but only at the bottom so far.  It is exciting to know that even though my tummy looks fat that there is a little baby growing in there.  That is my exciting news about pregnancy the rest seems to get worse.  In many blessings I have been given throughout my youth and even recently I have been warned that Satan will try to destroy my family.  I felt it throughout my relationship and marriage with Jonathan and also now in my pregnancy.  It started out with my horrible experiences with the doctors here in Edmonton.  When I found out I was pregnant I knew that there wasn't anything that the doctors could do until I was farther along and didn't even go to the doctors until I was nine weeks along and so sick I felt I couldn't go on any longer.  I decided to go to the walk in clinic by our apartment and I waited over an hour to be interrogated by the doctor who asked my ludicrous questions such as well how do you KNOW you're pregnant?  Well what makes you think that you're pregnant, and not just missing you're period?  After explaining to him that I had taken two pregnancy tests, and throwing up for the last month and missing my period for two months left the only clue that I was pregnant.  The doctor decided to send me for regular blood work and regular urine test.  I wasn't given any tests for being pregnant.  I went and did the tests and felt annoyed with the doctor so I had the medical lab send them to my family physician in Calgary.  When Jonathan had to take a course in Calgary I went to the doctors for the day only to find out that I wasn't tested anything.  My regular family physician was on vacation and so the doctor working for him sent me for the prenatal tests needed to make sure me and the baby were okay.  So I went the tests all came back normal but it was kind of interesting because when I came back to Edmonton and went to a different doctor's office they didn't believe me either that I was pregnant.  I had gone again to the doctor not because I needed anything but for the sheer fact that I thought I had a UTI and needed antibiotics.  I had waited two weeks to try to ride it out going the natural way of upping my vitamin C and drinking sugar free cranberry juice.  It helped a bit but I still felt off and not as well as normal.  The doctor said that it didn't sound like a UTI and I needed to wait a couple of days to see how I felt...  He sent me for a urine test to check if I had something but I just ripped it up as soon as we were out of the office.  I hate being treated like I am over dramatic when I am not.   

Well this week was the icing and cherry on the cake because I had received a book to read about for day by day pregnancy and found out the care I should be receiving but was not.  So I returned to this second walk in clinic I had went to and asked them to refer me to a obstetrician.  They placed me in the wrong room and so I waited for 45 minutes because the doctor didn't know he had to see me.  When they asked what I needed I said that I just needed a referral.  So the doctor started asking me symptoms, he stated to me that in order to be seen by the gynecologist I needed to state high risk symptoms or else they would never accept me into the clinic I wanted to go to.  I ended up leaving there feeling disgruntled and upset. I called my friend a couple of days later who encouraged me to call the drs office to see if they had sent off my referral.  They hadn't and stated I needed a requisition and that no one would see me until I was 24 weeks.  I got off the phone and just cried.  I was still having problems with my UTI and knew I needed to see a doctor and get a obgyn.  So I went to see a doctor who my friend had gone to see.  I told him my symptoms for my UTI and no questions asked he gave me routine prenatal blood tests, a referral for an ultra sound, anti-biotics for my UTI, and some urine tests and told me to take them and if my test results came back monday of not having a UTI he would call me and tell me to stop taking the medication.  

I am starting to feel better now that things are starting to take place and I know my baby is being taken care of.  My baby is now becoming my number one priority with my little hubbins.  I can tell that Satan is trying everything in his power to cause stress and problems for my pregnancy as a way to try to destroy my family but I just need to have faith in the Lord and follow his promptings.  Just as a side note if you know a GOOD doctor in Edmonton who is accepting new patients please let us know!!  I can't stand crazy doctors there who don't spend enough tie in the room to even know who you are I need someone who explains the reasoning for certain medications, different symptoms of illnesses and so forth.  I really like to be informed.  

Merr