We love our ob/gyn. A few examples why we think she’s cool.

• Rich and I tend to consult each other the day/night before our next appointment to review any questions we’d thought of that we need to ask her. (I should note here that Rich has come with me to every appointment; it’s so nice to have a second brain there to remember the stuff I don’t!) A few weeks ago, Rich woke up in the middle of the night before our appointment and told me I needed to ask our doctor what we should do in case our baby was born in the middle of a zombie invasion. On our way to the appointment, I asked if he remembered telling me that. He did. We decided to ask.

  At the appointment, I got through the real questions and then Rich said we had one more very important question to ask. So, as straight-faced as I could, I asked, “What do we do in the event our baby is born during a zombie invasion?” Rich chimed in, “Because, you know, hospitals are where the zombies go first, and a screaming baby would just attract them even more.” Honest-to-goodness, our doctor stepped back, sat down, and got a very serious look on her face. Then she said, “You know…I’ve never thought about that one.” She thought a bit more and said, “Well, I live close by and have an extra room – I could deliver the baby there if you needed. Or, really, plenty of people have had home deliveries; you just need to remember string to cut the cord…”

  She had to step out for something, and when she came back in, she told us they just got a new med student/intern, and she said she was totally going to make that the new girl’s first assignment. “I’m totally telling her she needs to research what we should do in case of a zombie invasion and have her write up a flyer for us!”

• Rich told her today about the centrifugal force baby birthing machine, telling her that was our request for the delivery. As he described it to her, she got a huge kick out of it! She told us she’d love to pull a prank on the hospital staff when we came in to deliver the baby and have the print-out of the image of the machine and tell them that we needed her paged immediately so that she could bring it for us!

It’s great to have a doctor who is very competent and caring, and who cheers you along the road of pregnancy. It’s just extra awesome to have one who gets your (and your husband’s) sense of humor!