December 6, 2009

This was my first Thanksgiving with Diabetes.  I made it without too many problems.  I have also had my Big ultrasound in the pregnancy.

First, I’ll say that I made it through Thanksgiving!  Woo Hoo!  I was kind of scared I would blow my sugars up during the holiday break but thanks to several months of practice I did quite well.  I was able to sample all of the traditional foods without going overboard.  I owe that all to practice.  Really, I must have changed some of my taste buds also because it wasn’t really that hard to say no to some things.  I really like that feeling.  I figured it would be really hard because there are a lot of starches served in our typical Thanksgiving meal and this baby hasn’t really craved the best things for me.  I did make good choices and good combos that allowed me to eat pretty much what I wanted.  I am pretty proud of myself. 

Second, I have noticed in the past couple of weeks that my sugars have elevated a little.  The doctor noticed too.  I have had to increase my medicine a little.  I now take Glyburide 2.5 mg twice a day, one with both breakfast and dinner.  This is still a low dosage but I was expecting that. I expect that I will be taking one with every meal by the end of the pregnancy.  I have noticed that my appetite seems to increase as the pregnancy progresses so my need for medicine will increase also.  I have one thing to be thankful for though.  My appetite has changed recently and I am craving healthier foods like salad and vegetables instead of chocolate and hamburgers.

Lastly, I had my “big” ultrasound this last week.  I can’t give any news about gender because the baby played hide and go seek on us.  We couldn’t even get all the looks we needed to determine the health of the baby.  The good news is that everything they could see looks great.  The baby is perfect in size.  The heartbeat is great and what organs we could see look good.  Apparently, the ultrasound said enough to the doctor that he extended my visit to 5 weeks out instead of the 3 I have had to go lately.  I think he is quite pleased with how well the pregnancy is going considering all the things that could have gone wrong.  I can say that I definitely am pleased.  We had some difficult times in the beginning but everything seems to be coasting along now.   I still am not sure if those difficulties were due to the diabetes or would have happened anyways.  I just now that this pregnancy has been a lot harder than the first one without the diabetes.  As far as the baby, I will need to go back in six to eight weeks s they can see all the things they need to see.  I will know more than how the diabetes has affected the baby.