Bona - how annoying! I hope you get an answer PDQ and that Mr Bona gets back with the colostrum!
I get sliding scales for ELCS too :( hate the things. I did try and get the anaethetist to put ALL the drips through a branched cannula last time, but he didn't manage it (I was on 3? drips I think) so had them in both hands.
Re colostrum harvesting - I was given a leaflet today about a clinic the hospital run that is specifically for people advised to harvest colostrum, I'll try to go along in a couple of weeks, but I think they actually hand out the syringes etc for us to use which will be handy. Especially as I'm leaking already and it seems daft to waste it!
Antenatal appt earlier was mixed - as expected there was some concern about the stomach measurement being off the chart on Friday, so I'm being scanned again next week (Thursday) and will see the consultant again the following Tuesday. Fingers crossed things stabilise a bit. DSN was lovely though and we've tweaked my pump settings a bit on ratios to see what happens as I've been getting some higher-than-normal readings in the evenings.
Diec - hope you get a pump, they'd have to fight me to get mine back :o it's a steep learning curve though and can be frustrating to start with. I assume you carb count already? If so, you're at a massive advantage from the get go. Best things about my pump: bolus wizard - tell it how much carbs you're eating and it'll work out how much insulin you need based on what you've programmed in about your ratios. IOB - it'll calculate whether you need a correction or not based on how much insulin on board you already have. BG reminders - this is new for me (changed pump at the end of last year) but whenever I give a bolus it lets me set a BG reminder that alarms on my pump when it's due. And fine tuning - my basal rate changes about 6 times a day, and ranges from 0.75 units/hr to 1.8 units/hr - something that's just not possible to achieve with injections.
Sorry for the essay lol