Gestational Diabetes

It's official I have Gestational Diabetes. I called the doc yesterday and got the news. I spoke with the patient educator on the phone and she asked me when I would like to come in. My response, well it's 2:50 right now, do you have anything today? She called in my kit to CVS and I picked it up and headed to her office. CVS took forever I'm sure it was because of the quick turn around time. Dave beat me to the office by about 10 minutes, and we met with her together. She taught me how to test my blood sugar with my new kit and gave us some sample menu's and a breakdown of what foods to stay away from.

I have a set diet based on carb intake. I can have 60 carbs at breakfast, lunch and dinner and 30 carbs for a snack. I can have 3 snacks a day. They really encourage the snacks b/c all my meals are getting smaller. After the meeting with the patient educator Dave and I hit Publix and spent an hour and 1/2 reading labels. We got dinner for last night (we did trout, shrimp and green beans), tonight (meat kabobs) and tomorrow (chicken). Dave grilled up some chicken for me to bring for lunch this week. I can make a chicken sandwich and some veggies/fruit for lunch. The trick is the bread. We found bread last night that is 10 carbs a slice! (all the others were around 20-30 a slice) So that means sandwiches are an option. But of course you can't have deli meat when you're pregnant. So chicken it is. They say to really up your protein, so my snack today will be cheese and crackers. I can have 10 crackers (22 carbs total) and cheese, which is very low in carbs. Of course I can't have to much cheese or I'll have to deal with other issues (of which the stool softer is currently taking care of).

Overall I'm ok. It's about the baby not about me, so I have no choice in the matter, which really does make it easier. If i don't get this under control her health is at risk and that's not going to happen! So i have a fancy journal where I'll log all my food and blood sugar readings. I'll learn alot about food over the next 10 weeks and most likey won't gain to much more weight (see I found a perk!). Who knows maybe Dave will loose a few pounds too. I had to go upstairs last night while he did what had to be done....threw out all my goodies. No more potato bread, no more eating icing out the can. (don't judge me, it was good)

Everything else is going great. My best friend just got engaged!!! so we'll be heading to Denver with little baby this summer! I can't wait. I already looked into flights and renting a car with a car seat. I have been sleeping ok lately, but the peeing is getting a little ridiculous. It's like trickery, you think you have to pee and you get there....and nothing. It's annoying. And it feels the same as when you really do have to go, so there's no way to tell.

we took some time off from the nursery, we have to put the blinds back up and Dave is going to stain her glider chair this month so we can get that up there. Other then that we're gona wait until after the shower to do much more.

-m