The Unexpectedness

I always look forward to my ob-gy appointments! I love looking at the scans. But this time round, I was also a little bit worried as I have been ill the whole of last weekend. I came down with fever and very bad sorethroat. Luckily after countless mugs of warm drink of honey + lemon slices, the sorethroat went away without manifesting into cold or cough. In a perverse way, I do hope that I did catch H1N1 and survived with milder symptoms. That way, my body would have now developed some form of immunity towards it.

I went to see my new ob-gy today. My appointment was at 3.50pm and when I arrived there, there were at least 6 more patients already waiting there. Sigh.. she was one of the more common specialists who have got loads of patients crammed into her appointment book. (My previous ob-gy at Thomson was the best. I never had to wait more than 5 minutes for my appointment, every time!)

Almost an hour later, my name was called. My appointment this time round was to check for the baby's heartbeat. Off I went to the bed, cold KY on my belly and ob-gy could not see anything. Apparently full bladder was essential.

So another scanner was called for, the more uncomfortable type. By that time I was a little bit worried because the dot may have disappeared! So the doc did her thing, and the nurse pointed at the screen. Doc did a double take then she went "oh." Come on, that got me bloody worried! And she said, "You are carrying twins!"

Me? I burst into tears.