Avi,

Hope your appointment went off well. Any good news about effacement and dilation?

How was your ultrasound? What was your little bean doing? Hope you are at peace about the fundal height.

Vindhya Simmi replied. Hi Avi, Vidhya and Arshiya. Sorry to hear about the appointment confusion. These docs deal with so many pregnant women in a day that sometimes they come across very crude and matter of fact. Where we are looking for reassurances. Specially the hospital staff. Even here in UK, the story is the same. I went to the hospital few times for my groin issue, which is some pelvic dsyfuntion problem and the doc there completely blanked me out by saying it is normal. I even took the paperwork from the internet stating that what I am feeling and what it is, she denied that being the case. Result, I wasted few weeks getting bad to worse. Then I decided to go for my following appointments to my local surgery with my GP, she instantly acknowledged the problem and referred to another hospital for hydrotherapy. Sweet of her but it was too late for the treatment since now it will induce labour! But since then I have made my mind up, I will go to the surgery only until I go in to labour, not bothering to go to the hospital. I would be going weekly too from now on.
Though no internal exam will be done to my knowledge, so don't worry about that one Avi. However, do call up and ask if you can see a doc every week, and make an appointment. Seeing that you are home, u can make these appointments and have reassurance too.

Avi, I'm sure like Arshiya said, knowing that there was some infection, doctors will take extra care, though I doubt it would still be there. Keep drinking loads of water and cranberry juice and it should help clear ur system further.

Good luck.
Simmi Arshiya replied. Hey Avi,

Sorry to hear about GBS, but it won't hurt you or your baby since they know it already, and that's the advantage.
Just like your doc said, my doc also gave me looooong explanation on dilation and effacement, which I already knew and showed me the pictures of it also.
Also, she gave me a big lecture on when to call (evenif it's midnight) and go to the hospital. Ofcouse, I was gonna do that evenif she didn't tell me that.
One good thing that your baby's fundal height is fine. Also, she should be asking to see you in every week right? I wonder why won't she do any internal till 39th week?

Vindhya,
Same here, I have started hating them now. Specially, when they are weekly now. I go there and sit like a bum for an hr till doc arrives and she sees me for 10 mins and vanishes.
I would also want this appt. to be over now. Don't worry we are all getting there.
Take care

Arshiya
Avi replied. Hey Vindhya, Just got back from the appointment...thanks for asking about it....really sweet of you...

First, she does the swab for GBS - which I already had in my urine in my first trimester - so will have to be on antibiotics during labor - even if this one comes back negative (and there is no chance for it coming back negative)...
Then she does an internal and tells me that the cervix is still thick.. I ask her if there was any effacement or dilation and she gives me a long explanation of what effacement and dilation are...(the info I didn't need), then she says that she wont do an ultrasound cause she could feel the baby's head when she did the internal....(meaning its already down)..
I ask her about how long she thinks I have before the baby is out, now that she's checked the cervix and she says \";about a month or so but if you feel any contractions you should go to the hospital\";.. I know that already, didn't need her to tell me...
Then she says, that she will not be doing anymore internals till the 39th week..

She checks the fundal height and tells me that it is fine .......so got one not-so confusing piece of information out of the whole appoinment...

She sends me off asking me to come back in 2 weeks.....

So didn't get to see the bean, didn't get any clear info about the state of the cervix, Atleast...I am a bit relieved about the fundal height.......

Soon you will feel the relief too... so do try and not get too stressed about it and eat well.....everything will turn out just fine...