Well, I've not long been home from the hospital, minus one Claire and one baby.
Claire's fine and, as far as we know, the baby is fine too. He's just not coming out to play as yet.
We got to the hospital for the 18:00 appointment that I mentioned earlier, and they soon strapped a baby-heart monitor to Claire's belly, along with another device to monitor for any contractions, if they occurred, and left us for about 45 minutes for the machine to draw a graph of the results.
The midwife came back and then gave Claire a really small amount of the gel (inside) and then re-set the machine to record another 45-60 minutes of results.
Once all of this was over, (around 20:00), the midwife said for Claire to get some sleep, as the induction starts first thing in the morning, meaning Claire will be woken at about 06:30 for it. Bearing in mind that for the last 5-6 weeks, Claire has been waking up at around 09:30 in the morning, 06:30 might come as a shock to the system...!
Tomorrow morning, they will then use a bit more of the gel, which should start the ball rolling properly. The small quantity of gel that they have used, coupled with the monitoring that has been done this evening, was to check that Claire and/or the baby do not have any adverse reactions to it.
So, I'm off to sleep myself, as it's starting to get late now and I didn't sleep too much last night - nothing to do with my wife getting up to go to the loo a million times. Nothing at all. Absolutely nothing to do with her. Ok, you got me. It was.
Apologies to Mr. Finn for the sweepstake entry, as it looks like your day may have come and gone! From memory, I believe that it's Mr. Scott's day tomorrow...? After that, it's Mr. Kanwal's day?
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