Quote From: missfroggeWe had our ultrasound done today, but baby was stubborn and wouldn't show us what he/she was. We are going to go to a private company Saturday and try to find out...
The reason I am upset is something that was said today by someone I really relied on and trusted. As I told all of you a while back, I am 35 and have high-blood pressure, so I am considered high-risk. I also have suffered from severe depression for many years....the depression is better and I am only having to take one safe medication, I also see my psychiatrist and HE is the problem. I told him today that my obgyn asked if we wanted to do genetic testing and I told him no, we didn't and the obgyn agreed. My psych said that it was because of religious beliefs, but I told him that I wouldn't abort a baby no matter what, my child is my child. I asked him if he would have aborted his little girl and he said YES, absolutely, he went on to say that he felt that Downs children were missing a chromosome and that he felt that they weren't even human. God, how could he say that. I understand that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I am pregnant, high-risk, and mentally ill, and what if my baby was Downs? That made me so angry and hurt so deep.
Am I overreacting? Or am I right to cut off further visits with this doctor? He has been very good to a difficult patient(me) for 9 years, but all this is very hard to swallow, how could I bring my baby with me to visits if it wasn't perfect?
ok firstly let me say....I feel deeply hurt and its not even my baby.....but a child is a child, it doesnt matter what race or if it is missing a leg or a chromasome or 2 its still an inocent human being that deserves love and respenct...its your child and you need to fight for its rights....
on the other hand it was just an opinion that your physc voiced to you so maybe if you just dont ask for his opinion on this subject then you might still be able to see him and also it might help you to voice the fact that you felt deeply hurt by his comments.
