GDM

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I got the official word that in SLHD I do fall under guidelines to be diagnosed with GDM -
so I was referred to the diabetes education place.

And got official notice on what targets for BGL and when to test as required.

After dinner on Friday, I went to bed - and woke up the next day, 12 hrs later ready to test. Surely, after 12 hours of not eating the reading should be good.

It was bad. Over target.

After breakfast also, over target.

Pete's like "so what do you do?"

And I started crying so hard -- Nothing -- like what else do you do, if when you don't eat anything your sugars are STILL high?! -- an yes i've not been having bread/rice/pasta/potato.

I thought maybe it's just one day, I'll cut harder. I had beans, I'll cut beans.

Fastings remained high and my dinner readings are perf after a whole day of food (including some small pieces of fruit).

On Monday I email the clinic. half my readings are not great, mostly the fasting ones are what I'm concerned about.

I get recommended not to skip supper and to try milk.

I was super skeptical until I read the theory behind it here

Which i thought was pretty cool. A combo of the dawn phenomenon (that your body makes more glucose in the AM to wake you up, and if your insulin doesn't meet this demand it will cause a high fasting) or possibly, that I'm going hypo going at night causing a 'rebound hyperglycemia' in response that is also, not being met by my pancreas.

So the options are: to go for a walk after dinner, or to actually eat more (shocker) as a "bed-time snack" that is high in protein and fat.

I intend to try it tonight. Bed time is 830 pm though. So either I drink milk right before bed, or I have to wake up specifically to drink it. They say good sleep impacts GDM too so I don't know where that fits in.

I've also gone out and re-purchased some myo inositol supplement.

I'll try anything to stay off insulin if possible.

I told my boss today, - so that she wouldn't be surprised if she saw me testing my BGL at the bedside (we get 30 mins for lunch and the test is at 1 hr). She comeserated and went through how one's best laid plans (for a normal pregnancy) can easily be blindsided. And then she said -
Oh no that's no more cake for you too.


(christmas is gonna be hard).


Birth stories

She shared a story about how her first child was breech and thus she had to have a cesarian (probably because delivering breech is a lost art-- but she was informed that it was too dangerous to deliver vaginally ... which it would be if no one was trained in it) but then she managed 2 NVB's thereafter.

Kamila told me about her babies - she said with her first every week she loved to read how big it was and etc. (which, even I also love reading it but i find it so abstract when they say at 16 weeks the baby is a size of an avocado... but I've had the luck of seeing TOP 16 weeker so I'd say it's more like a barbie doll) but that with her 2nd, she could barely remember what week she was up to, and that she had a 2L PPH and had to stay in hospital for 3 days postpartum - that they almost took her to OT and gave her an epidural because they were concerned for retained products in the uterus not having been expelled as the cause for the PPH).