No, really the end IS near!

OMG! As of last night I'm fingertip dilated with a soft cervix, and I'm waiting for a call back from the doctor to confirm that I'll be induced on Tuesday night and deliver Wednesday morning! But, I could go into labor on my own at any time! I'm terrified of being induced, but it is what it is, and well, she'll be here!

Less than a week!

The end is near!

On Monday I had my now weekly OB appointment, and was informed that the kiddo will be making her appearance no later than my due date of August 9th because of the gestational diabetes. I'm terrified. Who thought this was a good idea?

As much as I'm terrified at the prospect of the end being firmly in sight, I'm also ready to be done with being pregnant. The pressure and ache in my pelvis is sometimes unbearable, especially first thing in the morning. It literally pains me to go from laying to standing, and takes me a minute or two to actually take a step once I get myself upright. As the day wears on it seems I feel less pressure, which makes no sense to me, but I guess it is what it is.

Insulin

Diet wasn't working to keep my fasting number down (my glucose reading first thing in the morning before eating), so I've had to move on to insulin injections at night. I started at 5 units, then went up to 10, then 12, which seemed to work for a bit, but now I'm up to 14 for the last two days, and I've had one good and one bad day. The worst part of it all is that I can't have any carbs at breakfast. Do you know how hard it is to avoid carbs at breakfast? I'm getting really tired of eggs. I also drink Atkins diet shakes in the morning, but they're really not all that good.

8 more weeks... 8 more weeks

Much better

I saw a nutritionist this morning and the endo after that. I feel much much better. The nutritionist said that I was eating way too few calories, and that was evidenced by a 3 pound loss since Monday. That puts me at -15 for the pregnancy. She said I have to eat. Who ever would have guessed you'd have to encourage the fat girl to eat? She specifically said I need to snack more, but I've been at a loss for what to snack on. She said just about any 100 Calorie Pack would be perfect. I nearly hugged her. Chocolate! Crunchy but not veggies! Did I mention chocolate? I had chocolate covered pretzels tonight. Oh there is a God. I love that woman.

The endo was concerned that my glucose tends to spike with breakfast. I have to keep trying to control it with diet, but she did say that having a snack before bed (omg yay more encouraging of the chocolate snacks!) could help that a bit. If there's no improvement by next Friday I'll start a tiny dose of insulin at night. She also put me at ease that an occasional spike as mild as I've been having (130's to 150's) are nothing to be alarmed about as long as they remain occasional.

I feel so much better about this. Not that I have a choice, but I do feel more able to deal with this than I did before.

Moody bitch

I think this is the moodiest I've been all pregnancy. I can't even count how many times I've cried today. I cried because the bread I bought had too many carbs per slice, because peanut butter has carbs, because I can't have ice cream or chocolate, because the doctor wasn't in when I called because my glucose was too high, because my glucose was too high despite eating under my carb limit.

Eleven more weeks. Someone better bring me ice cream, a coke, and a loaf of bread when I'm in the hospital.

Gestational Diabetes

After failing the one hour glucose tolerance test, last Monday I took the three hour tolerance test, and failed that as well. Gestational diabetes. Friday I saw an endocrinologist and learned to test my blood before and after every meal, and learned what I can and can't eat. Bascially I can't eat anything that I was eating before. I've been living on carbs for the last 6 months, and now that's a no no. I also haven't been terribly hungry for the last 6 months, and now all of a sudden I'm starving all the time, which makes it even worse that I can't just pop whatever I want into my mouth.

So far I've lost 12 pounds this pregnancy, and that's from eating nothing but garbage. Doing no carbs is worse than doing weight watchers! I'm sure I'm going to lose more weight. I've been eating low carb for 2 days now, and I go to the OB this morning, so I'm curious to see if I lost more since Friday.

26, almost 27 weeks

I'm 26w5d today. All is still well for the most part. I had my one hour glucose test on Monday, and failed. So, it's off to the lab this coming Monday where I get to spend 3 to 4 glorious hours for the 3 hour glucose test. Isn't that fun?

Babygirl moves a ton now. Sometimes it's completely freaky, especially when I can see my stomach moving. JB has only felt her once. She'll be dancing around like mad, and I'll call him over to feel it, and she stops completely. She's totally f'ing with him!