I am so excited I feel like a little kid on christmas eve. Tomorrow is my very first OB visit. Granted, it is just a nurse visit so I don’t see the doctor and I don’t get an ultrasound… but i am still excited.
I have a list of exactly 13 questions to ask the nurse. I’m sure she’ll assume I am crazy. But there are so many questions going around in my head. I never realized how complicated being pregnant is until now.
I’ve been having bad back pain, especially while driving. So on the way home today during a 2 hour car ride I stopped at walgreens and bought some of those icy-hot back patches. I used these while non-preggers many times and they really do help. I figured since I can’t take any pain medicine, this patch would help. After getting into car, I open up the package and stick one of those babies onto my lower back. Then as I am driving down the road I thought, surely this is safe during pregnancy since it’s only topical, let me check the box to be ridiculously extra cautious. Dammit!! Quickly remove patch while driving 80mph down the interstate. Then use handfuls of hand sanitizer to clean off back to remove any possible residue. The rest of the drive home my back hurt but it was nothing compared to my bitterness toward the people who decide what is safe and non-safe during pregnancy. I have decided a group of women-hating male doctors sit around a big table in plush leather chairs and stamp products “unsafe for pregnancy” while laughing manically at the silly women who blindly follow their lead.
I want to know exactly WHY icy-hot is not safe for pregnancy, I refused to blindly follow. So that is question # 8 on my list.