morning chickens.
congratulations pully good work there. good luck darcies and figgy - hope everything progresses smoothly for you. airofhope give that HV what for - deep breaths and calmness are probably the only way to get rid of her (unfortunately). quote WHO stats at her or advice re bf and ask her for evidence of where it states that co-sleeping is illegal the condescending bitch.
looooong me me me rant alert, sorry
i'm in a charming mood this morning. had my last consultant appt yesterday afternoon and whilst it was very positive in terms of how the baby is doing (est weight a whooping 7lb 10oz nearly 4 times the size of DS) it was also pretty depressing (for me) re the delivery.
as i had to have a cs with DS due to the complications and risk to him, i can't be induced if i go overdue. EDD is this thursday 22nd so had appt with consultant yesterday to book in a date for an elective cs if i do go overdue. BUT due to the sodding bank holidays and other dates being booked up already, my cs is booked in for wed 28th when i'll be 40+6.
consultant had good chat about the placenta starting to fail after 38 or so weeks so we can't really push it too far after i go overdue as the next date available for a cs will be when i'm 41+5 and we had placenta issues with DS and really don't want to risk anything. he did say that this is plan b and plan a is to go into labour naturally and of course they could see how i was doing and if everythign was favourable then they could try to break my waters and see if they could get things moving that way but he didn't elaborate as to whether this was if i had already gone into labour or just generally speaking.
main problem is that i can't get a mw appt between now and the 28th so no possibility of sweeps or anything else to see how i'm doing. gp appt on thursday but i gather they can't really do much.
plus DH is totally unsympathetic that i'm really upset about all this. he thinks we jsut need to do what is best for the baby which i do agree with but i don't feel i'm getting the opportunity to do it naturally. all the chat is about how VBACs are much better than another CS but when it comes down to actually me having to do it suddenly the risks aren't as significant and i should just suck it up. I just want to avoid major abdominal surgery if possible and we haven't completely rules out DC3 but if i have another CS then i gather the chance of a VBAC pretty much completley disappears.
Doesn't help that i'm totally over emotional about all of this and can't stop crying about it. i know i need to concentrate on the fact that this baby should be healthy and we should be able to take him/her straight home but just feel really upset about all of this.
sorry again for the me rant.