I am 37 weeks and 3 days and my Grandmother, who I am extremely close with, has been fighting hard to hang on in her battle with cancer to meet her great grandson but my family have phoned to say that it looks like she isn’t going to make it beyond the weekend.

I had some early labour symptoms a few days ago and we were hoping baby boy may show up a little early but healthy so she could see him over FaceTime - but now it has settled and I seem to be less engaged and dilated.

I am a 3 hour drive away and want to say goodbye- is that journey a risk this close to my due date? I won’t be doing the driving.

When she is more lucid she is constantly crying over and over that she won’t get to meet the baby and it just breaks my heart.