[Baby] My blood comes from monkeys!

I'm Rhesus negative, in other words. So strictly speaking my blood has nothing to do with monkeys, but never mind. I have to go get the Anti-D injection (yes, the one that spread HepC all over Ireland a while ago) in 7 and 13 weeks. However, I am assured that there are no side effects whatsoever and that the blood is screened for everything. Plus, I know my blood type - it's O-, which is fab, because I didn't have one before.

I'm going to get the Anti-D because really the risks are very small and the risk of my antibodies rejecting my baby is slightly higher (though still about as much risk as that, say, I'm going to get trampled by a runaway elephant while on my way through Regent's Park in February). I'm also going to change my GP clinic; there's one local to me that is taking new NHS patients and my own clinic is awful beyond measure; it's possible that the only doctor there I haven't yet seen is perfectly good, but since the receptionists really hate letting me make appointments to see her (I didn't get to make a 16/17 week checkup appointment, for example), I can't find out.

Tomorrow I will go to the other clinic and fill in their forms and if possible make an appointment to see a GP in 4 weeks time. I hope they're better; I'd hate not to have found a decent GP by the time the little frog gets out.

We saw the frog again, by the way - the doctor who spoke to me about my RhNeg status and my history of depression had a scanner in her office and used it to check the heartbeat. It's beating :)