I am frustrated and feeling like I'm getting no where with this prep for HG thing. I have been looking into having a midwife with my next pregnancy, but all the midwives I have talked to won't take me because I live in a different city than the hospital I want to deliver at (even though it's only 15 minutes away!). I had my son at BC Womens and Childrens hospital in Vancouver since my family doctor is based out of there and I had a wonderful experience giving birth there. Whereas when I was in the hospital that serves the city that I live in for HG, it was a far from pleasant experience. (It's not fun having a nurse massage an IV needle in your hand for 20 minutes to try and get it to go again because she neglected to change the fluid bag on time and she was too lazy to just start a new IV!) I'm just frustrated because I can't seem to make any progress on this. Everything just seems way more complicated than it should be. Like a midwife won't meet with you until you're actually pregnant...well, as us HGers know we have maybe a week of feeling okay before we're bedridden for 3 months. I don't want to spend that week looking for someone to take care of me during my pregnancy. There's going to be a million other things I going to need to get done at that time. Maybe make meals for the next month, get the house all in order, spend time playing with my son before he loses his mommy for 3-4 months, etc. People don't seem to understand how difficult it is for us and just don't seem to be accomodating.
Sorry to whine and complain so much -- I just really needed to vent.
Joanna