Please take a number and get in line…

Well we have a date. 7am next wednesday morning I need to go into maternity for my induction.  I went to my clinic appointment today. It turns out that all these lovely exercises that I’ve done, all this mental preparation is going to be useless. I’m going to be hooked up to an insulin pump (which I was expecting) which will limit my movement. As well as when I get induced I will need constant montioring, which means laying on my back with the montioring device strapped to my stomach.

Krzys has been trying to fight this for me as it is my preferance to move about but it looks like I’m screwed. I’m fully expecting the entire works: Enema, shave, episiotomy, epidural, forceps. It seems that’s how they work in hospitals. I’ve written a birth plan and it’s very flexible, but I believe now that it was a waste of time doing it.

My midwife, Jo, who still has issues contacting me seems to have taken a back seat in all this. She’s worried about getting into trouble with the hospital. I spoke to the head doctor about her being there but apparently because an induction can take 48 hours or more it’s “Too much work for an independant midwife”. “There are lots of wonderful midwives that work at the hospital”, of course most of which I don’t know very well.

~ by blackriven on April 23, 2008.