This week I went away from the fruits and vegetables because an onion isn’t that exciting, but this week 3BB is the size of a Pop Tart!
Although I do feel like that is a bit evil since I can no longer eat Pop Tarts, as evidenced by the poor, sad, unopened box of Toaster Treats. Until next year, pop tarts.
Speaking of things I can’t eat, because all I can talk about these days is my diabetes, things are going OK. I had my call with the dietician yesterday and it was very informative and helpful. Before talking to her, I joined a Facebook group for gestational diabetes and that group has been amazing! It gave me some direction to go on before I talked to the dietician.
This week I meal planned and ate like I did pre-pregnancy – lots of healthy carbs and veggies and no treats (goodbye Pop Tarts and ice cream). I wanted to see if I could control my numbers by switching things up a bit before meeting with the dietician so I had the right questions to ask.
The one thing I’m thankful for is my years and years of tracking food in My Fitness Pal. I put in so many recipes that it is now easy to see which ones work for the carb levels I’m allowed each meal. That has been super helpful and made it so I didn’t feel like I had to measure every single thing. So many of the things I saw was people measuring out salad and dressing and look, if I want to eat a whole bag of salad, I’m going to.
Protein is still oddly hard. Chicken grosses me out. I bought the pre-cooked chicken to put in salads or wraps and just typing this out made me gag. I’m fine eating it if someone else cooks it, but I can’t even look at it.
My post-meal numbers are generally fine. I’m having a really hard time getting my fasting numbers low enough. My dietician gave me some tips, eating not just protein right before bed. She said the snack should be a good mix of good carbs, fat and protein. The unfortunate part of all this is the fasting number is the one they are most concerned with. I’m hoping they give me some time to get them under control before putting me on insulin, but I’ll find out more when I see the nurse next week.
But I’m already tired of pricking my fingers four times a day. It’s going to be a long 20-plus weeks.
Other than that, I am very thankful that my nausea has subsided and most of my food aversions have gone with it. I do not know how I would be able to do this with how I felt several weeks ago. I imagine it would have been a lot of puking.
Now the most annoying symptom is congestion. I always have a stuffy nose and am sneezing and have the worst post-nasal drip. It’s a good thing no one lives with me because the constant throat clearing is even starting to annoy me.
Clothes are starting to be a little snug. I really need it too cool off here so I can just wear stretchy pants all the live long day. But it’s supposed to be almost 90 here tomorrow, so no end in sight.
I haven’t noticed any movement from 3BB just yet. Supposedly I should start to feel something soon. I’ve *maybe* felt something, but it is hard to tell if it was just gas or something else. I’m excited to feel it when it’s undeniable what it is.
In a few weeks I have my big 20-week ultrasound. I hope they haven’t put me on insulin by then, since I can’t see my midwife anymore if that happens, and I would like to have this big appointment with her if possible. I can’t wait to get a good look at 3BB!
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Keep on keeping on KJ. I was gestational with all mine too. Side not I still can’t keep my sugars down and think the needle will finally win this fall. Keep your chin up you are young and have time to fix this stuff
Thinking of you and baby pop tart!
I honestly wished I had done something about my fasting numbers much sooner than I did. I felt like they let me go on way too long with higher fasting numbers, and all it did was stress me the fuck out. I tried everything to get numbers down, careful dieting, exercising, doing different things at night or before bedtime, etc. It was ridiculous. I started to feel better once I had my fasting numbers under control, even if it was by insulin. I was mentally was much better after that, not always worrying with also causes baby stress, etc. Just wanted to share that perspective.
I had GD too which was a massive pain in the arse and I’m pretty much vegetarian so used to eat lots of chickpeas (garbanzos?) for protein if that helps at all?
Also I used to take a walk before bedtime to get my numbers down after eating which seemed to work pretty well. Good luck, you’ve got this!
Sounds like a pain in the butt, I’m so sorry!
My dad just had to monitor his blood sugar to test for (non-gestational ;-D) diabetes recently, and they gave him this little device that he stuck directly onto his arm and it connected to his phone via bluetooth and he could test his blood sugar that way. No idea how/when people get to use that, but maybe something to ask about vs. sticking your finger 4x/day if this ends up being longer term!
interesting that your midwife can’t join if you have GD!