The baby boy is small – too small?
The baby is small – too small?
We had another OB doctors appointment today. The appointment started with an ultrasound session. The ultrasound technician had some problems determine the baby’s size. Since a software upgrade they had done to the ultrasound machine about 6 weeks ago they seemed to have problems with this thing. We have not been able to recognize anything on the pictures since then. I wonder how the technician wants to see anything?! Anyway – the ultrasound technician said that everything looked Ok. We went back to the waiting area to see the doctor. The doctor was out sick and so we met the practicioning nurse. She came into the room without having looked at Simone’s file and started flying through the ultrasound pictures and the history of Simone’s pregnancy. Then she said something that concerned us a lot. We should not be worried about the baby’s size and if necessary they would go and get him out early. We were stunned. What?! Nobody had mentioned anything before that our baby was small. A baby does not turns out to be small within 2 weeks and falls of the chart. What the heck was going on?
We asked if the baby would be too small. No, no – everything would be just fine. They would keep an eye on everything for us. We asked a couple more questions but did not get much more out of the nurse. We left and went to work. But this incident has been very disturbing. Simone could not get over this statement and started researching a small birth weight. She could not find anything clear pointing in one or the other direction. We both had a very bad day following the morning session at the doctor. As more as we thought about it we found it disturbing that she a) had said something like this and b) only had looked at Simone’s chart only for 30 seconds. She must have been reading some data incorrect – that was my opinion. But … we had no proof in either direction. Very disturbing.