Well I'm a Love Immigrant, isn't everyone else? I would LOVE a general anesthetic for the C-section! In fact I may have to take a trip to Bulgaria to get it as Sweden doesn't seem to actually do elective C-sections. Advanced? In what sense? I take it you don't know about the monopolies, the close mindedness and the horrendous socialist medical care I'd gladly pay for various products or care but there's no way to do that either. It's gloriously free and useless
No! Well I admit I know sweet FA about Sweden but I'm surprised! I didn't elect my C section - it was scheduled cos LO was breech the whole time. Funnily enough they recommended me for a C-section for two other reasons, 1) I was extremely old to be a first time mum and they reckoned my body might not cope (I was 32), and 2) I am short-sighted. Bulgarians believe that your retinas will detach when you push. I am smiling as I write this as I know of lot of people will think I am completely mad to want to give birth in this country, but I love it here- it's one crazy place!
I just remembered another cracker- at 8 months preggers it was so hot - (June is a stinker) and I wanted to go swimming. My Bulgarian best friend was so shocked at the idea I almost fell out with her arguing about it. In the end we went together to ask the gyno if it would be a problem. Seems they think you will catch thrush off the Roma population (but only if you're pregnant...) Anyway, the gyno looked me straight in the eye and said it was a risk, but that I'd be safe if I wore a tampon. Hee hee - I could go on for days - I might change this journal into a "dumbass things that the Bulgarian Medical Profession Believes" instead
Sounds a bit like the UK, eeeek, so scared about not having Swiss hospitals anymore... I'll never forget a GP in the UK looking at me all confused and asking "endometriosis? what's that?", I knew then our relationship would have to end...
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Blimey! Are you sure he was qualified?!!!
Hmmm, well he did look about 12 and was covered in spots... damn, was I hoodwinked?? There I was telling him all my AF problems and it was the Dr's son...
Seriously though, I should have walked out of the office when he started to BLUSH when I was talking about my periods, and I should have slapped him when he said "you do know it's normal to get period pain"
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No! Well I admit I know sweet FA about Sweden but I'm surprised! I didn't elect my C section - it was scheduled cos LO was breech the whole time. Funnily enough they recommended me for a C-section for two other reasons, 1) I was extremely old to be a first time mum and they reckoned my body might not cope (I was 32), and 2) I am short-sighted. Bulgarians believe that your retinas will detach when you push. I am smiling as I write this as I know of lot of people will think I am completely mad to want to give birth in this country, but I love it here- it's one crazy place!
I just remembered another cracker- at 8 months preggers it was so hot - (June is a stinker) and I wanted to go swimming. My Bulgarian best friend was so shocked at the idea I almost fell out with her arguing about it. In the end we went together to ask the gyno if it would be a problem. Seems they think you will catch thrush off the Roma population (but only if you're pregnant...) Anyway, the gyno looked me straight in the eye and said it was a risk, but that I'd be safe if I wore a tampon. Hee hee - I could go on for days - I might change this journal into a "dumbass things that the Bulgarian Medical Profession Believes" instead
Oh, please do go on!!
It must be a laugh a minute at your GP surgery, at least you have us to keep you on the straight and narrow....
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Hmmm, well he did look about 12 and was covered in spots... damn, was I hoodwinked?? There I was telling him all my AF problems and it was the Dr's son...
Seriously though, I should have walked out of the office when he started to BLUSH when I was talking about my periods, and I should have slapped him when he said "you do know it's normal to get period pain"
OMG! That's awful! Hope you've got a nice one now!
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Funny enough....I had a CS too cause DS was full breech....his head was stuck under my ribs and they couldn't get him out....I was told off for laughing during the surgery too as it kept making my belly shake!!!
Yay now I can keep up with the latest goings on!!!
CD2 - feels like about a million years till anything useful can happen this cycle!
Having a pretty crap day all in all. LO is suffering from constipation yet again. Went to the docs this morning and got the usual "she doesn't eat enough fresh fruit and vegetables" shocker. Told the doc that she doesn't like them and I give her as much as is humanly possible disguised as much as possible, to which the doc gave me a face-full of silence. Got some prescription syrup but I can't make head nor tail of the label to see what it is.
Still, LO drank up her potion with relish, which was good, but it is now 4 hours later and she still hasn't performed, so to speak. It's been 5 days now and I'm beginning to think that this poo is going to get so big there's just going to be no way out and then what???!! Kabbooooommmm!!
Anyway, I tried to get her to eat some fresh apple and orange - No.
Chopped up the apple and orange into miniscule pieces and hid them in a yoghurt. No.
Boiled up some spuds, sweet spuds and mashed it up with cheese (my extremely expensive imported English cheddar). No.
Minestrone soup? No.
By this stage we were arguing in our own way so much that we were both in tears. LO can't really speak though - her arguing involves thowing food-caked spoons across the room and slamming doors. I gave up and sat on the sofa to cry myself into oblivion thinking I am such a crap mother why am I even entertaining the thought of having more of these impossible creatures. Then LO appeared by my side with a fistful of tissues for me to blow my nose on, so we had a cuddle and everything seemed ok again.
Sfunny but despite all the difficult days I have trying to be a mummy, it's amazing that in my TTC daydreams no2 is just such a perfect, unproblematic !!! I must be completely bonkers.
Funny enough....I had a CS too cause DS was full breech....his head was stuck under my ribs and they couldn't get him out....I was told off for laughing during the surgery too as it kept making my belly shake!!!
Yay now I can keep up with the latest goings on!!!
This is getting spooky! LO was stuck under my ribs too!!!!! My gyno didn't realise she was breech. At about 7 months at a gyno visit I asked him to explain to me how the baby was lying as I couldn't work out all the bumps and kicks. He told me the text-book version. I said, so what's this hard thing here, just under my rib, and he looked at me quite surprised, and examined my bump again (he had just done an examination), then said, well it appears the baby is breech!!! So what the hell did he think he was feeling before? Beats me!
I'd gladly pay for various products or care but there's no way to do that either. It's gloriously free and useless 
got u, good luck with all the new tools!
. LO is suffering from constipation yet again. Went to the docs this morning and got the usual "she doesn't eat enough fresh fruit and vegetables" shocker. Told the doc that she doesn't like them and I give her as much as is humanly possible disguised as much as possible, to which the doc gave me a face-full of silence. Got some prescription syrup but I can't make head nor tail of the label to see what it is. 
Then LO appeared by my side with a fistful of tissues for me to blow my nose on, so we had a cuddle and everything seemed ok again.
!!! I must be completely bonkers.
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