You dont need to go into hospital, the endocrinologist will just show you how to do the injections yourself, it's easy once you've done it a couple of times. You use a pen with a little fine needle - it's not stomach churning, most people think it's going be much worse than it is in reality

You'll still need to monitor your BSL's as teachmum said.

Re labour - once your on insulin regardless of how perfect your sugar control is you'll be under very strong pressure for an induction around 38-39 weeks.