I have to be induced 😢

FTM with an easy and uncomplicated pregnancy to date. This week, at 29 weeks I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes, much to my disappointment my gynae has said that I will have to be induced at 38 weeks no matter how well controlled my sugar is. It’s just not worth risking going the extra two weeks or even overdue.

I’ve been planning my birth since I was a teenager - natural, unmedicated water birth! I know that things never go to plan and that I need to be ready for all kinds of complications and changes but I am so disappointed as I may now not be able to have the birth experience I have been dreaming of my whole life.

I am seeing my midwife on Tuesday where I’ll find out all my options. And I’m hoping that she will have some good news for me.

Can anyone share similar experiences and how they dealt with the disappointment and what their induction experience was like? Did you have to have Pitocin? Were you able to have a water birth or were you constantly monitored?

Really trying to wrap my head around this!