#121. Eliza's birthcentre waterbirth (with GD) to Georgiana
What happens when you get a Gestational Diabetes (GD) diagnosis in pregnancy? How do you say no to an induction? Navigating a “failed” glucose tolerance test, Eliza was labelled with GD – which meant a lot of extra monitoring, testing, scans, and being constantly threatened with induction. Eliza shares her journey through all of this - how she was told her baby might die if she wasn’t induced at 39 weeks, even though her baby was tracking “perfectly average” and how her mama’s instinct knew that everything would be just fine to let her arrive at her own time. Informed, empowered and knowing she had the right to make her own decisions about her baby, her body and her birth, Eliza (with support of her midwife) decided to stick to her original plan of a waterbirth at a birthing centre. Spoiler alert – she gets exactly what she wants. Eliza shares what she did, what helped her along the way, and how baby Georgiana arrived “perfectly.” If you too would like to learn information, skills, tools and techniques for you and your partner check out the range of options at www.positivebirths.co.nz