I checked my chart late last week and they documented that I have gestational diabetes and that they will not do the one hour test on me. I am not sure if they will still do the three hour test, but at this point, I don't see why they would. I'm already eating a diabetic diet and my blood sugars have been very good so far. I am very determined to keep off of insulin. They say there is nothing I can do to keep it from happening, but I'm going to try anyway. I am feeling frustrated with the diet, but I am making it work. It sucks, but what can I do?
My belly is getting bigger now - it's hard even to hide it beneath my scrubs. There's no way I could fit into regular clothes now. It's getting harder to get comfortable at night - still sleeping with lots of pillows. Ben is threatening to sleep downstairs just so the dog and I are not kicking him off the bed all night. I am completely oblivious to the fact that he has no room - just trying to make myself comfortable. :)
Baby is moving more now, but still not every day. I cannot wait for that to happen. Oh, and just over 2 weeks until the ultrasound where we can find out the gender. I am so excited to find out. If you haven't voted, now is the time.
I have been having trouble with my contacts lately. New eye doc and new lenses - I'm on my third trial pair with him. I just put them in tonight, but they already feel better than the other two did. Now we'll just see about tomorrow - see if I can make it a whole day at work wearing them. I keep wondering if it has been the lenses or the pregnancy that's making them not work. I have heard that pregnancy can affect your eyes - whether that's true or not, I don't know.
My hair is growing faster than usual. I am taking advantage and growing it out a bit. Slowly but surely - it was pretty short in the back so it will take awhile.
Ben and I took Hadley to a farm on Sunday and we picked strawberries. The crop was wonderful and the weather was perfect - not too hot but sunny and just breezy enough to keep away any bugs. Hadley kept picking the "green" ones and carrying them around. She was walking up and down the rows between Ben and me. She wouldn't really eat the ripe ones, either. It's weird, sometimes she likes strawberries and other times she makes a face and won't touch them. I think they can sometimes be tart at first and she thinks she won't like them. Crazy girl - she'll learn when she's bigger.
I work four days this week because someone is on vacation. I am going to be exhausted by Thursday, but we're going to the cabin with my family that night through Sunday, so I'll have plenty of time to relax after that. Cannot wait!
Monday, June 30, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
17 Weeks 3 Days
My appt last Friday was pretty uneventful. Things looked good and the NP did not seem too overly concerned about the blood sugars. She did say that she would tell the RN that works with gestational diabetics and if needed the nurse would call me.
I got that call today. She said to follow a diabetic diet, check my sugars 4 times a day and call her once a week to report results. She said they will test me for diabetes at 24 weeks or earlier depending on what my doc thinks about the home testing results. She said they don't want to test me too soon because they will end up having to retest later if I pass because they don't want to miss the illness altogether by testing too early.
She said my monitoring at the end of my pregnancy is the same that they do for moms who are insulin dependent during their gestational diabetes, so I am already scheduled for everything I would need if that happens. She said I will be treated like a diabetic and they will try to test me at the right time so they catch it early but only have to test once.
The baby's heart rate was in the 140s to 150s. The NP couldn't pinpoint a number because the baby was flopping around too much while she was using the Doppler.
I had a second dream that the baby was a boy. Not sure if that means anything, but after two like that, I now have no idea or inkling about baby's gender.
I cannot remember if I have more to blog about...I am exhausted. If I think of anything else, I will post again tomorrow.
I got that call today. She said to follow a diabetic diet, check my sugars 4 times a day and call her once a week to report results. She said they will test me for diabetes at 24 weeks or earlier depending on what my doc thinks about the home testing results. She said they don't want to test me too soon because they will end up having to retest later if I pass because they don't want to miss the illness altogether by testing too early.
She said my monitoring at the end of my pregnancy is the same that they do for moms who are insulin dependent during their gestational diabetes, so I am already scheduled for everything I would need if that happens. She said I will be treated like a diabetic and they will try to test me at the right time so they catch it early but only have to test once.
The baby's heart rate was in the 140s to 150s. The NP couldn't pinpoint a number because the baby was flopping around too much while she was using the Doppler.
I had a second dream that the baby was a boy. Not sure if that means anything, but after two like that, I now have no idea or inkling about baby's gender.
I cannot remember if I have more to blog about...I am exhausted. If I think of anything else, I will post again tomorrow.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
16 Weeks 5 Days
I'm about 95% sure I already have gestational diabetes. How depressing!
At my 12 week appt my doctor said to randomly check my blood glucose some mornings and an hour after some meals. I admit I only did it maybe once a week, but today when I got up my level was 101 (should be under 100). So after a normal, non-diabetic breakfast of cereal with milk, my level was 174 (should be under 140).
I called the doctor's office and spoke to an RN who told me to eat a diabetic diet and check my blood sugars the regular 4 times a day (upon waking and 1 hour after breakfast, lunch, and dinner). She said to bring the results to my regularly scheduled 16 week appt on Friday.
It is very hard for me to eat that way, so for today, for ONE last day, I ate what I wanted. I did check my blood sugars, though, to remind me why I have to make a radical change starting tomorrow. My lunch level was okay - 137. However, after dinner it was 196 - scary! I don't think it was ever that high with Hadley (that's because I ate responsibly once I knew I had diabetes).
So, although I have not been officially diagnosed, I failed 3 out of 4 home tests today while eating a non-diabetic diet. For me, that is as good as a 3 hour glucose test any day. Tomorrow the fun begins - measuring portions, counting carbs, eating 6 times a day at scheduled times, recording the time I start eating, recording what I eat and how much of it, poking myself four times a day- in the morning and exactly one hour after I begin my meals, and monitoring everything I eat and drink. Ish.
By the way, for anyone reading, the high sugars for one day do not put the baby or me in any danger. It's high sugars continuously over a long period of time that are bad.
Not much else to report. Just waiting for Friday.
At my 12 week appt my doctor said to randomly check my blood glucose some mornings and an hour after some meals. I admit I only did it maybe once a week, but today when I got up my level was 101 (should be under 100). So after a normal, non-diabetic breakfast of cereal with milk, my level was 174 (should be under 140).
I called the doctor's office and spoke to an RN who told me to eat a diabetic diet and check my blood sugars the regular 4 times a day (upon waking and 1 hour after breakfast, lunch, and dinner). She said to bring the results to my regularly scheduled 16 week appt on Friday.
It is very hard for me to eat that way, so for today, for ONE last day, I ate what I wanted. I did check my blood sugars, though, to remind me why I have to make a radical change starting tomorrow. My lunch level was okay - 137. However, after dinner it was 196 - scary! I don't think it was ever that high with Hadley (that's because I ate responsibly once I knew I had diabetes).
So, although I have not been officially diagnosed, I failed 3 out of 4 home tests today while eating a non-diabetic diet. For me, that is as good as a 3 hour glucose test any day. Tomorrow the fun begins - measuring portions, counting carbs, eating 6 times a day at scheduled times, recording the time I start eating, recording what I eat and how much of it, poking myself four times a day- in the morning and exactly one hour after I begin my meals, and monitoring everything I eat and drink. Ish.
By the way, for anyone reading, the high sugars for one day do not put the baby or me in any danger. It's high sugars continuously over a long period of time that are bad.
Not much else to report. Just waiting for Friday.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
15 Weeks 4 Days
I have been so busy lately. With what, I have no idea...just life I guess.
I have been very uncomfortable and hot at night. I wake up sweating and have to rip all the covers off. Then I still feel so hot I cannot get back to sleep. I'm sleeping with a couple different pillows now to be comfortable, but they don't seem to be doing anything except making me hotter. I woke up a couple of times with indigestion as well. Makes for a short night of sleep.
I am looking forward to my next appointment, even if nothing very exciting will happen. I will see a NP this time, and I've never met her, so hopefully I like her. I see her on the 20th when I'll be 17 weeks.
We got a toddler bed for Hadley, well, my mother-in-law did. It was at a garage sale for a reasonable price, which is good in case Hadley doesn't use it for long. I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know what kind of shape it's in, but it should solve our bed issues for awhile.
I had a dream over the weekend that I had already had the baby, and it was a boy. Not sure what that means, because consciously I think it is a girl. I really have no scientific reason to think one way or the other, but my feelings have been saying girl. I guess we should know for sure by the middle of July.
We also changed our minds about the new daycare. I wasn't crazy about some of her discipline techniques or her patience level the day Hadley and I went to visit. I am just going to keep her with Susan until we know a more specific date of when she's moving. Also, Ben might be offered a job in another town, so we might be moving ourselves come fall. So much is up in the air...not a good feeling when there is a baby on the way!
I have been very uncomfortable and hot at night. I wake up sweating and have to rip all the covers off. Then I still feel so hot I cannot get back to sleep. I'm sleeping with a couple different pillows now to be comfortable, but they don't seem to be doing anything except making me hotter. I woke up a couple of times with indigestion as well. Makes for a short night of sleep.
I am looking forward to my next appointment, even if nothing very exciting will happen. I will see a NP this time, and I've never met her, so hopefully I like her. I see her on the 20th when I'll be 17 weeks.
We got a toddler bed for Hadley, well, my mother-in-law did. It was at a garage sale for a reasonable price, which is good in case Hadley doesn't use it for long. I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know what kind of shape it's in, but it should solve our bed issues for awhile.
I had a dream over the weekend that I had already had the baby, and it was a boy. Not sure what that means, because consciously I think it is a girl. I really have no scientific reason to think one way or the other, but my feelings have been saying girl. I guess we should know for sure by the middle of July.
We also changed our minds about the new daycare. I wasn't crazy about some of her discipline techniques or her patience level the day Hadley and I went to visit. I am just going to keep her with Susan until we know a more specific date of when she's moving. Also, Ben might be offered a job in another town, so we might be moving ourselves come fall. So much is up in the air...not a good feeling when there is a baby on the way!
Monday, June 2, 2008
14 Weeks 3 Days
We found out last week that our daycare provider is moving! We are so bummed. I started searching last week and found a new provider on Friday. Hadley starts there in two weeks and the baby will be able to go there, too, which is great. She has an associates degree in child care and she has been a provider for 8 years. She also does preschool curriculum, which is a plus. I think it will be a good fit, but I am worried about switching Hadley and how she will handle it. She is not very good with people she doesn't know well. I'm going to take her there on my days off so she can play and get to know everyone. Hopefully that will help her.
I had my first case of indigestion. We ate Chinese food for supper and I was fine until I went to bed. I felt crappy and kept burping and burping. Two Tums and it was gone.
I swear I felt the baby kick the other day, but then I held still to try and feel it again and nothing. Must have been my imagination. I think it is too early for that anyway.
My belly is getting bigger and bigger. Feeling pretty good, though. Craving donuts lately. So weird...only bought them twice...so far.
I had my first case of indigestion. We ate Chinese food for supper and I was fine until I went to bed. I felt crappy and kept burping and burping. Two Tums and it was gone.
I swear I felt the baby kick the other day, but then I held still to try and feel it again and nothing. Must have been my imagination. I think it is too early for that anyway.
My belly is getting bigger and bigger. Feeling pretty good, though. Craving donuts lately. So weird...only bought them twice...so far.
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