First check-up

I woke up early this morning to make my first obgyn appointment downtown. I decided to go with an obgyn DrS, who is with St Michaels's Hospital for two main reasons. It is a first rate, smallish hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto that specializes in women's health care, and it is situated downtown just off Yonge and Queen, a stone's throw from The Eaton Center and a few subway stops away. If I am going to be traipsing downtown by subway at least once a month all bloated and preggy, I might as well get some retail therapy while I am at it. Went in for the usual pee and see (you always have to pee as soon as you get to the office), but this time I was given a cup with a dipstick, a key to the ladies and told to stick the stick in my pee, and only pass them the stick if it changed colour. Which was quite different from my first experience Stateside where I found it rather unsettling to pass a nurse a cup of pee. I swear I must have wiped down/washed cup three times, every time, before passing the cup over. Felt much better just chucking everything once I established that dipstick did not change colour. The doctor was very professional and explained that I was to embark on the first of the series of tests that I would take, which is the Prenatal screening for nuchal translucency. Simple enough to do as an ultrasound will be taken to measure a potential collection of fluid behind the neck. If they have any concerns then I will undergo the maternal serum screening, tests for spina bifida and other neural tube defects, and possibly an amniocentesis. But today it was just another ultrasound and blood work. We couldnt tell the sex but we should be able to at the next ultrasound in about 5 weeks. DrS asked me how I prefered to deliver. I told her depending on the weight of the baby I would prefer to have a vaginal birth with an anesthesiologist waiting for me when I check in the hospital, the IV in place while I fill in the forms. None of this waiting for me to be 5cm before administering bullshit...I want to be drugged up, and drugged up good. She laughed and said she will look into it. I like her already.