Stressful appointment

We had our 18-week appointment with the midwife last night. This was our first time meeting our second midwife. She was okay, but a bit of a scatter-brain it seemed. Well, when it came time to listen to the heartbeat, she tried for about 20 minutes with no luck. She did say that my placenta could be at the front, which would make it difficult, or it could be a positional thing. With every minute that went past, I was getting more and more worried. She said if they couldn’t find it, not to panic, but they would likely send me to the hospital for an ultrasound just to be sure. Luckily, that wasn’t necessary. She got another midwife to come in and try, and she found it in about 15 seconds! I was SOOOOO relieved! I don’t know if it was that the baby was moving around so much that it was difficult to find, or if the other midwife had a better Doppler, who knows. I’m just glad they were so determined and wouldn’t let me leave until they found it! We were there for almost an hour and a half total since the first 45 minutes were spent talking about things and me asking questions, etc. So, we left there feeling relieved, but it was stressful!

I’m headed to Toronto in a few minutes for a meeting at the MOE. I will likely be gone most of the day, but I’m happy to get out of the office for a bit.