15 weeks, 3 days

yay! my belly is finally telling the world, "i'm pregnant!" 

friday y and i are going to meet the new doctor.  i've changed dr.s three times now.  the first dr. must have said, "why are you here?" like three times in my last visit.  i was almost 10 weeks and was there on a scheduled appointment.  he thought i was too early in my pregnancy to be of any importance.  i guess i wasn't supposed to set foot in his office until i was crowning.  what an ass. 

 i never met the second dr., just the nurse practitioner.  she was so amazing.  she invited y and i to sit in her office and ask a bunch of questions.  i felt so at ease with  her.  the problem with this situation was the hospital.  the dr. only delivers at huntington memorial in pasadena.  it's a super swanky regional hospital and when i first found out i was pregnant i HAD to have my baby there.  i had read some internet rumor that they serve champagne after the delivery.

between dr.s one and two y and i saw the documentary, The Business of Being Born.  up until i'd seen it i'd always imagined an epidural, a screaming red-faced me and hopefully a swanky hospital to have the worst day of my life in.  

the documentary completely changed my ideas about labor and really empowered me to make the decision to have a natural childbirth without dr. interventions.  unfortunately huntington memorial, a hospital with tons of technology is known on some of the childbirth boards to have a reputation of lots of c-sections and other interventions i wanted none of.

in the end my friend laura told me about dr. dwight at good samaritan in downtown los angeles.  i'm such a hypocritical downtowner;  i hadn't even checked into good sam because i thought if it was in downtown it must be ghetto.  anyhow, dr. dwight and good samaritan have an excellent reputation for natural childbirth.  i'm hoping that i get an ultrasound on friday, i'd love to see my little peanut.