Being admitted to hospital with transverse baby

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I'm to be admitted from 38 weeks for eight nights before my planned section (very large, transverse baby with cord balancing on cervix).

I'm currently being monitored for GD and I have successfully diet controlled with no high readings (the only fail I've had was the 7.8 I got actually doing the test).

I've packed a hospital bag for me and baby to cover the section and stay but now need to pack for a week of sitting around.

I can't access any fridge or freezer facilities, no microwave and limited boiling water. The hospital menu is not GD friendly and I've been told to try and bring in things I can eat. The restaurant is staff only and the shop is shut.

I'm feeling a bit miserable and lost as to what I'm going to pack for a week of sitting in a room on my own. Any ideas on things to keep occupied or GD friendly food is not nutty and can be stored room temp with no cooking?! DP won't be able to visit every day so he could bring things but only probably twice during the week.

Thanks in advance

That's absolutely awful. Can you document what you are being offered and take up with PALS daily? I appreciate it's likely the last thing you want but this is shocking. Bless your DP though.

Hope it goes quickly

Why are you not allowed off the ward?

Anything suitable won't be nutritionally good.

All I can think of off the tip of my head is pepperami and babybels.

Surely they can provide a salad each day?

I had a transverse baby, my friend recommended I spend some time on my on hands and knees, maybe 1-2 minutes at a time, on a yoga mat or carpet so that the baby changes position. Might have been coincidence but it worked, and pretty quickly too. Good luck!

Oh, and bake banana bread, it's very yummy and sustains you. I polished a whole one in the first night dc2 was born.

RTFT - she's got diabetes. I think an entire banana bread would be about the worst thing!

Do they not have salad on the menu? That's what I lived on. Absolutely shocking how bad the diet is in hospital 🙈