Medical "professionals" HA!!!

Hospitals annoy me.
Obstetritians annoy me.
Professors annoy me.
Many midwives annoy me.
Why? Because they treat pregnancy and birthing like it is a fast spreading disease that needs to be handled by medical staff, many drugs dished out and constant monitoring needed to make sure everything stays on the right track.

Well... POO TO THAT!
Today it reached 42 degrees here. I am 39 weeks & 2 days pregnant. I also had an appointment to see my midwife and have my weekly check up done. Every week it is the same old thing. I race around at home dressing Mini Him & Princess Ratbag. Then I pile them in the car and drive for 3 minutes to the hospital. From there, I drive around the car park looking for a parking space. As always, there is never one near the lift. I park way too far away, take out the tandem pram and load the kids in to it. I then push the kids to the lift, go up 2 levels, then walk to the hospital and through the main thoroughfare and down to the Ante Natal Clinic where it is always too hot and too cramped. I am then seen by my midwife who takes my blood pressure which is always perfect and gets the doppler out to listen to Beanies heartbeat, which is always difficult to find. I am then left to sit myself up and always hurt my back/hips/public bone in doing so. I then go through the motions, watching my midwife type up this weeks notes and then I go home.

Well, seeing that today was so hot, I decided not to go to the hospital for my appointment and I called to reschedule. Seriously, who in their right mind expects a woman at 39+2 weeks to go out in this heat? Everything was fine. My midwife called me to have a chat and see how I was going. She asked the usual questions in regards to pain & discharge. I told her the same thing I do every week - nothing to get excited about yet. We decide that I will come in next week as planned.

So, Prince Charming comes home and the phone rings. It is my midwife. She tells me she has spoken to the Professor and he wants me to come in on Friday to have an ultrasound done, to have CTG monitoring done (checking the babys heart rate) and to have a vaginal examination done to speed things up. Now, I have made it known that I will not be having nor accepting any vaginal examinations let alone one to speed things up. For crying out loud, this Friday I will be 2 days away from my due date and they're already wanting to intervene and bring on my baby! Apparently the hospital have 3 due dates for me - Jan 29, Feb 2 and Feb 6.
I have no idea where the Feb 2 due date comes from but this is why they wanted to perform a Stretch & Sweep/Strip & Sweep on me as this Friday, going by their dates, I will be the whole of 2 days overdue. 2 f**king days overdue. Seriously.
So, pregnancy hormones got the better of me and I started to cry. I told my midwife that I will not be attending that appointment as I don't approve of the vaginal examinations nor the S&S. I also wanted to know why no one has acknowledged that my due date is actually Feb 6, not Feb 2.

Long enough story short, my midwife called me back and upon looking at my file the Professor has noticed that my due date should in fact be Feb 6. So there is no need for the appointment with him, but I will be having the ultrasound done still.
So I am praying, wishing & hoping so hard that my baby comes out before next Tuesday so I don't have to go through all the intervention stuff and end up in tears again.