The appt yesterday with the Anaesthetist was reassuring. He basically said that there is no reason I can't have a spinal - that it is the safest option for me (GA's apparently are the 6th most common cause of maternal death in childbirth due to the difficulty in getting a pregnant woman intubated!). He said the Fragmin will be gone, and the risks are very minimal. I can have a GA if I am too scared, but as my preference is to be awake for the birth I think I will pass on that (pre-birth terror attack not withstanding).
My dad suggested today that me & G both immediately without haste increase / max out our life insurance. There's a cheery thought.
I actually managed a fairly good nights sleep last night -- only getting up twice for the bathroom. I'm still exhausted today, I think I need a couple more of those to play catch up completely after so many nights lying awake worrying. I was supposed to go out for a gig but I didn't make it, we got back from the hospital far too late and I had absolutely no energy left at that point.
One of the women on the PSD forum lost her baby at 19 wks. It's very upsetting news. PSD is linked to miscarriage, and it could happen to any one of us. I feel so bad for her.
D was out playing last night and I am also feeling very sorry for my neighbours whose 4 yr old son has a form of Autism and also ADHD. He's not an easy child, to say the least, and it's very hard for them to control him successfully because of his conditions. He of course, wants to play with the other kids, but doesn't know how to properly. The other kids want to play with him, but don't get that he has some problems and often make situations worse. D quite often ends up getting hurt by him because he can be quite aggressive, and then I feel bad for D, but it doesn't stop D wanting to go over there and play (as opposed to playing by himself) so I am trying to teach D how to not wind him up, or extracate him from the situation if it appears to be going downhill fast. What else can I do - I'm not about to forbid him to play over there, he likes it and I like chatting with them, they're my friends.
It's morbid, but your dad's right. Hopefully nothing happens to either one of you but if it does - particularly G, since you rely on his income - you need to make sure the other one and the kids will not run out of money.
Don't be surprised if the insurance folks get arsey over his diabetes (or your high-risk pregnancy, but at least pregnancy is known to be a temporary condition :-). They don't like people coming down with serious diseases and then trying to insure themselves, and it kinda makes sense that they'd have reservations about increasing the coverage of an existing customer in that situation, too.
Posted by: Steve at May 20, 2004 03:35 PM