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LemurBaby's first doctor's appointment was today. Sorta, anyways. Kaiser has this group "first prenatal appointment" thing, where they herd us all in to a room, tell us about diet and symptoms we might be experiencing, have us fill out paperwork (why can't they ask for our contact info ONCE and use it on all the forms? Or better yet, just make sure our patient records are up to date?), and give us books and stuff.

I actually already had this particular book, as there were about 50 copies of it used at the local baby thrift shop. Now I know why.

After informing us, they called us out one by one to give urine and blood samples. Fun fun fun.

The main problem with this appointment was that they told me it started at 10. It actually started at 9. The other main problem is that it didn't take place until now, when I'm already 8 weeks along. I haven't received one word of advice about diet/drinking/etc. from Kaiser before today, even though they've known I'm pregnant for a month (and I've known for a week longer than that). For all they know, I'm an alcoholic and I've been out drinking every night. They should provide some sort of information as soon as you come in to take a pregnancy test.

(Have I ranted about this before? If so, sorry. I'm just rather pissed at Kaiser. I'm glad I'm changing insurance in January, and not just because Sutter Davis has a really neato birthing center.)

Ok, I promise to stop ranting about Kaiser unless some new stupidity comes up.

At work, we had a holiday party. I showed up late (as expected) because of the appointment. I'd been told not to worry about the food, that I didn't need to worry about them running out before I arrived. This turned out not to be true - all the main courses except the chicken were gone, and chicken is not really high on my list of things I can eat right now. Had I known this would be the case, I wouldn't have paid the $10 for the meal (yes, we had to pay for our Christmas party! Grrr.).

I did win a little photo album thingy in the raffle. And my infamous ex-coworker (who is male and very much NOT the piercings type) won a pair of earrings :)

Bah. I'm irritable today. This week is just awful, and doesn't look like it will get any better before Friday.