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krystineM
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Doctors Appointment baby's heart beat
Posted: 03-11-08 10:22am
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So today at 4:30 i am going for a check-up
at my family doctor,
just to see how things are progressing,
and how much weight i've gained, and i
think a physical and a few other things.
Im gonna ask to hear the baby's heart beat
too, that made my day completely when i
heard the baby's heart beat for the first
time!
I will let you all know how it goes 
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Ingi
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Posted: 03-11-08 11:19am
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Your family doctor or your OB?
At your ob, you'll hear the baby at every
appointment.
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krystineM
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Posted: 03-11-08 11:30am
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My family doctor.
hes also the pediatrition and the one
doing most of my ultrasounds and physicals
and such, hes looking for an OB for when
im further along.
But hes got that little monitor thing that
lets you hear the heart beat, he used it
the last time i was there, and all we
gotta do is ask if we can hear it.
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Ingi
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Posted: 03-11-08 11:43am
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How can a family doctor do ultrasounds?
How is he set up like that? You are nearly
5 months along, right? How far along do
you need to be for an OB?
This sounds really hokey, Krystine. You
should have an actual doctor who will be
delivering you and has all the equipment
required to monitor the baby, etc.
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seksiHily
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Posted: 03-11-08 12:06pm
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Yeah I don't know but 1 family practice
that has ultrasounds oin their office and
really it's just that the clinic is in a
large building with radiology as a
specialty clinic on another floor. I would
think a family practitioner would have
turned you over to an OB by now, I mean
I'm not even pregnant and I was turned
over to an OB for cysts!  It's
a specialty service, it does happen
infrequently but to also be the
pediatrician yours or when the babies born
or both?
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Emma2
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Posted: 03-11-08 14:34pm
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My OB who delivered Christian is my family
dr as well. How strange that he isnt even
an OB and he has an U/S machine....Why do
you need to ask to hear the heartbeat ?
That isn't an option it's mandatory on
every monthly check up.
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krystineM
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Posted: 03-11-08 19:39pm
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| Ingi
wrote: | How can a family doctor do
ultrasounds? How is he set up like that?
You are nearly 5 months along, right? How
far along do you need to be for an OB?
This sounds really hokey, Krystine. You
should have an actual doctor who will be
delivering you and has all the equipment
required to monitor the baby,
etc. |
My Mistake Ingi.
I have my ultrasounds in the same building
as my family doctor Or he assigns us to
another doctors office to do the
ultrasounds. Its not my family doctor that
does it.
We are finding an OB now, our family
doctor has set up looking for one and we
should hear results. Our doctor does all
the check-ups up until like the 24-28th
weeks, then the OB takes me and i still
update my doctor.
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Ingi
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Posted: 03-11-08 19:49pm
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Why would you personally update your
family doctor? I don't get it.
Why does your doctor find your OB for you?
Don't YOU find your OB?
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krystineM
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Posted: 03-11-08 20:01pm
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No the doctor finds one for us.
Our family doctor said if the OB we have
doesnt have very many appointments to see
how things are progressing to see him in
between, and to also keep him updated.
...Ingi is this such a bad thing?
I dont see that its any big deal, i guess
its how things in canada are done...
I like that my family doctor wants to be
updated, and that we dont have to run
around looking for an OB, our doctor finds
one for us and we have a meeting with the
OB.
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Ingi
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Posted: 03-11-08 20:11pm
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Emma is in Canada and her situation was
totally different.
Every month you get an appointment with
your OB. The first appointment is your
intake appointment and it can last over an
hour with all the paperwork, weighing,
measuring, possibly and US and a pelvic
exam/pap smear. Then the appointments come
every 4 weeks, you are weighed, blood
pressure checked and your belly is
measured. The doctor listens to the baby's
heartbeat at EVERY appointment and the
heartrate is recorded in your file.
During later appointments, you may also
get another ultrasound and have to do the
Gestational Diabetes test. Towards the end
you start seeing your OB every 2 weeks
instead of every 4 and the same process
goes on - weighed and measured, etc. After
a few weeks of going every 2 weeks, you
start going every week and you really feel
like you are getting to know your doctor
and nurse.
Your family doctor has absolutely ZERO to
do with your pregnancy if he is not an OB.
Unless you have a medical condition
outside of pregnancy - and even then he
would be getting your chart from your OB
to find out about your pregnancy, he would
not rely on word of mouth.
So, no, it doesn't sound right at all.
None of your experience sounds even
remotely like that of any other pregnant
woman I have ever spoken to and/or
experienced myself. That would be why I
questioned it. Canada isn't a third world
nation, you have excellent health care - I
just wondered why your personal experience
was so incredibly different than everyone
else's.
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Altari
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Posted: 03-11-08 20:15pm
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Some women go through 9 months of
pregnancy without ever seeing an OB, only
a midwife. This happens regularly IN NORTH
AMERICA. ZOMZ she's being seen by a family
doctor!
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krystineM
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Posted: 03-11-08 20:19pm
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I dont understand why your attacking what
im saying.
My doctor sends me to the OB i get when im
around the 24th-28th weeks,
he does the physicals and check-ups, blood
pressure too, assigns me either in the
building or to another hosiptal to get my
ultrasounds.
The only thing that is different is that
my doctor looks for my OB and wants to
still be updated with how my progress is
doing.
He did not really touch base on what the
OB would be doing very much, but said the
OB would do the check-ups ultrasounds
weight measurements and so on.
Yet youve attacked everything i say.
My family doctor from previous patience,
would do all of that AND deliver the baby,
but things are different now and he only
takes the patient up until the 24-28 weeks
and still sees the patient to see how
progress is.
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Ingi
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Posted: 03-11-08 20:23pm
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How was it an attack? I said it was
different than anything I'd heard of. I
didn't attack anything. I told you how I
had never heard of anything you'd said.
Altari, a family doctor is not the same as
a midwife. A midwife deal soley with a
pregnant woman. I much prefer midwives to
doctors for myself. They are more hands
on.
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krystineM
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Posted: 03-11-08 20:27pm
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to me it seemed like attacking what i was
saying about my doctors appointment.
Everytime on here one way or another i get
attacked, asking a question that just
needs clarification ATTACKED. replying to
something ATTACK. posting something
ATTACK.
And why? maybe cuz i voiced my opion a
little too open mindedly, yet even though
i bite my tounge when i read something, i
still get attacked or put down.
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Altari
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Posted: 03-11-08 20:29pm
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A woman does not *need* to see an OB, and
that was my point. There are many MANY
family practice doctors that have an
"Emergency OB" affiliation.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to
deliver a baby. People were doing it for
thousands of years before obstetrics came
along. Women with normal, healthy
pregnancies don't need to see an OB for
any reason other than convention, and a
family doctor is more than qualified to
make the determination on whether or not
an OB is needed in a specific situation.
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krystineM
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Posted: 03-11-08 20:31pm
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i think my step mom said she saw hers at
almost 28 weeks or something like that.
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Altari
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Posted: 03-11-08 20:31pm
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| Emma2
wrote: | | My OB who delivered
Christian is my family dr as well. How
strange that he isnt even an OB and he has
an U/S machine....Why do you need to ask
to hear the heartbeat ? That isn't an
option it's mandatory on every monthly
check up. |
Some doctors just listen with the steth,
from what I remember when I bounced
between docs when my OB was off. They
didn't necessarily use the little portable
heart beat kadingas.
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Posted: 03-11-08 21:16pm
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| krystineM
wrote: | | i guess its how things in
canada are
done... |
Wrong!
Mississauga is my neighbouring city, so
it's not in the boonies or anything. I
don't get why YOU would be seeing your
family doctor until 24-28 weeks gestation.
It doesn't make sense at all!
I've noticed that you are VERY
inconsistent with every post you make.
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seksiHily
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Posted: 03-11-08 21:16pm
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In school (Medical Office) when we talk
about family practitioners we were told
they occasionally do OBGYN OR Ped work and
maybe what was it? Dermatology I think.
But OBGYN, Pediatrics and Dermatology are
considered specialties meaning most GPs
and FPs will refer patients to a specialty
clinic for their specialty needs. But I
don't get why a FP would see you for
nearly 3/4s of the pregnancy then refer
you elsewhere. Didn't you say that this
doctor told you you were somewhere between
8-12 weeks at one point in time?
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Posted: 03-11-08 23:26pm
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| michelle1981
wrote: |
I've noticed that you are VERY
inconsistent with every post you
make. |
So its not just me! I was reading a few
old posts to check consistency. Something
seems very fishy. Not to mention she seems
very paranoid about people always
"attacking" her while at the same time
says some, I guess you could say
controversially attacking, things to
others.
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