Well I arrived at the Maternity Assesment Ward yesterday afternoon for 2pm and I was kinda sent back home today at bout 9:30am. I was given the Cervadil overnight and it didn’t do very much. The head doctor for the Gestation Diabetes decided to pop in on me before we got the Syntocin started up and gave us her opinion on what lay ahead.

Basically she said if it was her choice, she wouldn’t go on to have the Syntocin yet. As chances are it will fail and then I will be forced to undergo a C Section. Which we really do not want. So I have been asked to come back into the hospital over the weekend to be monitored a couple of times and then to go back into the Maternity Assesment Ward again on Monday at 2pm and they will start all over again if need be……or hopefully my cervix will have ripened over the weekend enough to give them a chance to break my waters. And then continue the Induction from there.

I came home pretty despondent and sore and completely shattered physically and emotionally. I was very stressed. But we realise the benefits of the body doing it’s own thing, over being forced via man made hormones. And the risks of a C section are still there….but by then we wont have the option anymore. But for now we do. So it’s back home to feet rubbing and relaxing as much as is possible till then.

It’s Saturday night and I have 5 sleeps till I go in to be Induced.
Rick is looking forward to Thursday. Which of course makes me happy. And we are both hoping that he will be able to stay the night with me in the hospital, even if he has to sleep on the floor. He has been really supportive and positive the last week and it is making me feel confident about what lies ahead. Father in Law has lent me his portable d.v.d player and we are going to get some movies, so just in case I am in there for a long time, I will have something to keep me occupied.

Went shopping today and we picked up the Baby Movement Monitor by Tommee Tippee. But we are thinking of taking it back tomorrow and getting a different one. Also got a head support thingy for the capsule so that baby doesn’t have a lolling around little head when she is in the car. And last but not least we got some window shade thingys that will suffice for now as the car’s windows are not yet tinted.

Still have everything to get done. Tomorrow we have the garage to clean out and to organise to make it easier to get baby in and out of the car. Might pick up some picture hanging wire so we can get on with putting up the piccies in her room too. Getting my hair done on Monday morning and maybe on Tuesday I will have a session of Reflexology done. Whether it works or not I don’t know, but I am looking forward to being pampered for the hour

Holy Crap.
Only 1 week to go!!!
Went in for my antenatal appointment yesterday and saw the OB and pretty much straight off the bat she said she was moving my Induction forward as I have diabetes and it should be done at 38 weeks not 39. So it is what it is and I am totally freaking my pants off.

It’s awesome knowing when she will be roughly arriving into the world tho! I can have everyone around me (or nearby) right when I need them to be!!! And who wouldn’t want their family around them at such a time??!!

I am happy that I only have 1 more week of Gestational Diabetes and Insulin Injections to go. I really want to stick to the diet that I have been on tho!! I couldn’t recommend it enough I am not going to miss the back pain, crap sleep, acid reflux/heartburn, tiredness, breathlessness or the daggy/boring clothes though!

I am scared.

I am excited.

But mostly I am scared…..