Hospitals make me so angry!
I am almost 38 weeks with my first baby and I have gestational diabetes. I've had to go on insulin (one injection at dinner time) because my fasting levels were up each morning.
Last week I was told I would be induced at 39 weeks. Every fibre of being is screaming at me that it is the wrong thing to do. I've been told that she is slightly big for dates but still within average size, my BP is fine and I've been keeping my blood sugar under control. The only problem the Dr could find was that she thought the babys heartrate was "too fast". After being strapped to a monitor for 3 hours a senior Dr came in to check my readings and couldn't understand why I was being monitored at all as the heartrate is normal for a healthy, active baby!
The next day I called the Labour ward to talk to someone about why I needed the induction. I'd been having panic attacks about it since they booked me in (I wasn't told I have a choice). All they could tell me was that it's "standard procedure" for gestational diabetes.
If that hasn't been stressful enough, a midwife from the hospital told my mother that if I went over 39 weeks my baby would have diabetes or be stillborn! What is wrong with these people?!
I have an appointment with my diabetes specialist on Wednesday and plan to arm myself with information for my antenatal appointment on Thursday.
If they refuse to give me a choice in the whole induction matter my husband has vowed to call up and cancel the induction on the day as he's concerned by how anxious and depressed I've been since they told me I'd "have" to be induced.
All we want is at least to get to 40 weeks to give her a chance to come out on her own not go through all this stress for the sake of 1 weeks difference and "standard procedure".