Hope everyone is OK
- sounds like there's loads going on every time I disappear for 5 minutes.
GTT was clear yesterday - but I already knew that would be the case and it felt like a big waste of time - hot, flat lucozade is SO not tasty! Plus cause I didn't eat for 16h+ I was sick alll over a bus and the street later on in the day which was SO lovely.
Also had my appointment with the VBAC Clinic with the Consultant Midwife, who is now my favourite person on the planet - he is BRILLIANT.
Basically, he gave me three options
1 - VBAC (not for scaredy-cats like me)
2 - ELCS (which he explained I can book through my consultant when I'm ready)
3 - Somewhere in the middle (this option was really intriguing and he basically said that they offer ELCS booking dates AFTER EDD at a date of your choosing - most ladies choose between 5+ and 15+ so you get a shot at trying VBAC. This option also came with the added bonus that if you were to labour naturally and things didn't progress or went wrong they would never administer the EVIL HORMONE DRIP and a CS would be the only intervention option, in my case anyway).
Gotta say I was tempted by the third option, the chance to maybe give birth myself is always tempting especially as he made a very clear case for the fact he thought I should be able to do it, based on reaching 10cm last time, BUT it could still end in that rushed CS with General that I don't want. Knowing I have to have a General makes me want it organised so I believe I'll still be planning a date with my consultant, when she's back from holiday!
Saying that, he said he's also going to do some research into my allergy which means I can't have a spinal/epi through pharmacy and if it comes back that I don't need the general, which at the moment they offer mainly because they aren't sure of the risks of an epidural for me, I could just be left to it and not need anything.
He also said he's not on commission to increase VBAC numbers and I shouldn't go away thinking I couldn't have want I wanted haha - interestingly he only gave info regarding the risks of CS though!!
Sorry for the lecturey/ranty/never-ending post and hope you're not all asleep (unless you needed a cure for that pregnancy insomnia of joy
) xx
if so Ive gained 17 pounds. Ill say more like 15 ..so Id say around 20 pounds at this point is pretty normal! Right after I had my son I lost 20 pounds in just baby blood placenta ect. He was 7 pounds. So I wouldnt worry too much! and the breast feeding (even not) just having a newborn leaves not a lot of time for eating so youll be back in old jeans in no time! 
