A helping hand

With baby currently 11 days overdue, it was time to get a helping hand to encourage him to make his journey. We were booked in for 9am this morning to start the induction process.

The newly discovered neurotic side of my psyche was given some respite from the anxiety of waiting for baby. A scan and a chance to see him in all his glory in the womb, far larger than he was at 20 weeks, was a lovely moment then being connected up to the monitor to hear a constant strong heartbeat helped provide an extended period of relaxation, free from the usual worry of not knowing what was going on inside.

As an experienced DJ, i may be hyper-sensitive to sounds, beats and rhythms, so sitting in a ward with several pregnant ladies, all wired up to their own individual machines monitoring their babies' heartbeats, did pose a challenge for my brain to deal with. If each baby had the same heart rate and were all beating in sync, my DJ brain would have handled it better but as expected, they were not and every off beat grated slightly more than the last.

That's the reason I got rid of the clock in our kitchen because I could never get it to perfectly sync up with the clock in the living room. A repetitive background 'tick tock' i can handle. The continual brain bashing of a 'tick tick tock tock' i could not.

Turning up the volume on our monitor helped and after a while I managed to zone out the other noises and focus solely on our baby's heartbeat.

We've not confirmed a name yet, but I couldn't help joke that we need to add to our shortlist as a result of prolonged exposure to the heartbeat. When i hear a beat, a rhythm or even a song, the DJ in me is always searching for the next song to mix. When out in a club socially, or just listening to music, I can often be heard singing a different song over the top of the one that is playing as my mind offers some suggestions about what could come next in the set list.

Sitting, listening to a steady resting heartbeat of 140 beats per minute, I sub-consciously started humming Adagio For Strings in perfect sync with baby. Another brilliant mix from DJ Jamie. I think i'll have to update the labour playlist as most of the choices on it are relaxing, and sedate. I think baby might take after his daddy and want something a bit more more upbeat.

I did offer up the name suggestion Tiesto but S wasn't having any of it and shot down my suggestion point blank. Probably for the best, we're struggling as it is to finalise one of the choices we already have.

So it was on with the induction. Pessary inserted, a bit of rest then we made our way home to continue the waiting. It will be time to party and celebrate soon and one things for sure, baby is going to love the party tunes.