Gestational Diabetes… THE HORROR!

I got the dreaded phone call from my doctor’s office yesterday morning that two of my 3 glucose tests came back high, which indicate gestational diabetes. In all honesty, I am glad that we were able to catch it this early so that I can do whatever I need to do to take care of it and prevent myself from having a glucose-infested MAMMOTH BABY.

So I met with the nutritionist this afternoon and learned a LOT about glucose, diabetes, gestational diabetes and carbohydrates. Luckily I still get to have carbs, I just can’t have a LOT of carbs. It’s all about portion control. And even though this sounds like common knowledge, I still found it necessary to pay a woman $150 to tell me this. Besides, I also got to play with plastic fruit while we went through all of this.

She gave me a blood sugar meter and my doctor is calling in prescriptions for my testing strips and lansetts (the needles). I have to take my blood sugar 4 times a day and keep a log of my food intake. Oh yay for accountability :|

So I’m actually looking forward to possibly losing weight and being healthy. Mostly just knowing that I’m doing all that I can to make and keep our baby healthy while he or she is baking away in my oven :) I mean, a baby is totally worth all of that. And I know this because I got to hold a 6 day old baby today. And I would have done anything for that baby, and it wasn’t even mine. Oh the preciousness is too much. And the smell. Ohhhh I wish you could bottle that!

Well, I better get going. We’re going to go grocery shopping to buy lots of healthy foods and then to fill my tank up with gas. I don’t know about where you guys live but gas has gone down DRAMATICALLY here. It is less than $1 cheaper here than it was just 5 months ago. We’re down to $2.21 per gallon! SRSLY.