One week to home

One week from tomorrow we will be on our way to Seattle! Assuming all is still well and they let me travel. I've been doing pretty well with the new diet. It's now been nearly two weeks of doing it. I do miss chocolate and being home and wanting to make sweets will be tough but things have been pretty good so far. I'm thinking we'll have to make some stuff with Splenda or I'll just eat things in moderation - which is really what I've been doing all along, I've just been avoiding sweets most of the time.

Monday I go in to see Dr. Bryson again and hopefully everything will still be good!

New diet

Ok so I've now been on my new diet since Friday. Toshi is being a good sport and agreeing to eat the things that I'm making - mostly from diabetic living - and so far so good. Thankfully he's also keeping less things in the house that I shouldn't be eating, like croissants and OJ from Costco that we usually have. So far my levels have been good - out of 15 or so I've only had 3 high ones and at least one of those I know the cause of (too much white rice!) and I know how to fix it.

Although I'm doing pretty well with the whole thing the hard part is going to be being home and not being able to eat sweets - or doing so knowing I shouldn't be. I know that I need to figure out how to exchange normal foods that I eat everyday for things that I'll want to eat like cookies, pull-aparts, fudge and all other manner of yummy things that are around at holiday time.

Anyway, so far so good!

Gestational Diabetes

Today I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. I talked with my midwife this evening but I knew earlier since Toshi had looked at my lab results at work. The glucose test is done by taking blood four times, once at fasting and then once an hour after drinking the 100grams of sugary drink. At two values being high they start to worry and changes are needed to diet and whatnot. All four of my values were high which was not good.

My midwife Joan made an appointment for me to see a nutritionist tomorrow afternoon so we can get that going right away. I'll also need to check my blood sugar and start taking medication. I was worried that this would meant that she would no longer work with me, as midwives prefer to work with low risk patients, but she agreed to co-manage me with the maternal fetal medicine people who I will also meet at some point in the very near future.

So, for now this will mean a big diet change. I will need to cut out sugar pretty much completely and all those carbs I consume will also need to basically go away. This will be hard for me as I love carbs and sugar but this is something I need to do for me and for the baby. Unfortunately this puts me at risk for future pregnancies and for later in life. I was already predisposed to it because of both grandfathers but now my risk is even higher.

More tomorrow once I've met with people and found out what I need to do.

Glucose Screening

I had my 27 week appointment yesterday and found out that my glucose screening came back high. This is actually quite common (as my midwife reassured me) and for now it just means another test which I'll do tomorrow morning. This time instead of a one hour test it will be a three hour test where they will draw blood four times. We are hoping that all of the values come back acceptable. One high means they'll check me again in a few weeks, two high will mean that I will get a nutritionist and will have to consult with maternal fetal medicine. So, at this point we will just wait and see what happens with the test tomorrow morning.

Thanksgiving

It's the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and this afternoon we are headed to Denver to see Toshi's family for the weekend. First of two big trips - Seattle in December before our little girl is born in February.

I am thankful for Toshi and for the little baby girl growing inside me.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!