First thing this morning, I had a visit with my primary care physician, an integrative doctor. So before he could really get into the results of my blood tests I said to him, "I have to give you an update...I'm pregnant". He gave a closed mouth smile along with the thumbs up signal! LOL! He's hilarious. He then proceeded to say how rare it is for women with my medical condition to get pregnant. And my own little note to you guys is that usually when women with my condition DO get prego, it's after months or years of trying to conceive with different treatments, holistic, conventional or otherwise. Anyway, he was very excited and happy for me. Then I told him about how the OB/GYN doc that I saw last week told me stop taking my medication for my insulin resistance. And I told him that I didn't stop because I didn't agree with her at all. He also doesn't agree with her. He said that the medication has been successfully used in this country for 55 years and there have been no studies showing that it could cause harm to the fetus. To the contrary, it helps prevent women like me from developing gestational diabetes and having over sized babies who could be diabetic from birth. So yeah we basically agreed that the OB/GYN doc was wack for saying that. He even said that if she wanted to talk to him about it, she could call him. GANGSTA! LOL! So overall the visit today was really good. Only one thing that was of concern: my protein levels are low. I don't understand why, I feel like I eat enough protein but I guess I need to make a more conscious effort. I may have to whip up my egg white, spinach omelettes once again on the daily. Protein and folic acid for me and baby bojangles. Everyone in the office was congratulating me. It was really nice. And my integrative doc even gave me hug. Cute! For those of you who don't know, an integrative physician is trained in both conventional and holistic medicine. So he basically has a larger breadth of knowledge to draw from when treating his patients and picks the best course of therapy or treatment from both realms of medicine. I actually found out about his practice because he used to have a call in radio show about holistic health on 1600 AM. Everyone I tell that too is like "Damn you have a celebrity doc?" Well he has made his rounds in the media. He's even been on The View but that was awhile back, think pre-gastric bypass Star Jones; I saw a framed photo in his office. So to wrap this post up, he gave me some suggestions on OB/GYN providers at St. Luke's-Roosevelt hospital. It's cool because he is affiliated with that hospital and if they need an internist to consult with in regards to me and the baby, he said he is more than happy to do it. Sweet!
On a completely different note, I began watching the documentary "The Business of Being Born", produced by Ricki Lake. So far I have watched about 20-30 minutes of it and it scared the SHIT at out of me! I never realised how standard interventions in childbirth have become and how it is not in the best interest of the mother and baby. Inducing labor, epidurals, blah blah blah...the big question is "whatever happened to natural childbirth and why have midwives become so marginalized???" I mean seriously childbirth is natural but these hospital treat it like an illness that needs heavy medication and intervention. I will reserve the rest of my rant for when I finish watching the doc.
Signing off for now. I bid you adieu!
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