Okay, so this morning, my husband was inducted into the Peanut Gallery. Yes, he said something so ridiculous, it was worthy of inclusion here!!!

I'm almost 35 weeks pregnant now and, today, I'm having a growth scan. I have GD and, as a result, will not be allowed to go past my due date - but how close they will let me get to said due date before inducing me depends wholly on how the baby is doing in there and how big she is looking. Today's growth scan is all part of that process. Simple, right?

As he was leaving for work this morning (he couldn't get the day off to come with me), he turned to me and said "Let me know the date you are being induced as soon as you know!". I said " I doubt they will make that decision today, they will probably ask me to come back in two weeks for another scan".

Well....! He was incensed! It doesn't help that he has agreed to go on a 4 date UK tour with a band he works with (he is a sound engineer) when I'm 37 weeks pregnant and so wouldn't be able to attend that appointment, either - I think he might be regretting the timing a little bit now - but the next thing he said had me rolling about with laughter:

"This whole system is designed around people who have nothing better to do! It's outrageous, them not telling us when this baby is going to come. We need to plan."

This whole system??! What - gestation?!! I think perhaps he had become a little fixated on 31st July as our "due date" and hadn't quite realised that a full term birth could happen any time between 37 and 42 weeks, not to mention the fact that our baby could be born prematurely (I was 6 weeks early!). All this talk of inducing me "early" has sent him into a spin - he needs a date and he needs it now!! I don't know what he will do if they see something they don't like today and decide to admit me! He needs a formal 28 day notice period, it seems!!

When I started laughing, it made him worse and he carried on! "No, with all the technology they have, you'd think that they could scan the baby now and predict when the baby will come, or at least estimate the best time to induce you. But they don't bother because it seems that most people who breed in this country don't have anything better to do. Come back in two weeks, my ar5e. What? What's so funny?"

It just cracked me up!! I know what he means, of course. I spend a huge amount of time at hospital appointments, always at their convenience and never at ours, and I know he is frustrated that he cannot attend everything with me because he has to work. But the idea that they can blatantly predict when a baby will be born but choose not to because they don't respect our busy lives and need for planning is just hilarious!!

Bless him!! He doesn't deal well with stress and uncertainty.