Gestational Diabetes Chatter #6

[Trac73]

Hi Mamapice
my fingers are crossed for your VBAC i really hope that if you have the chance that it works out perfect for you. I am hoping for a VB this time again, but the truth be known that if i require a CS i will have it as long as myself and bub are healthy
Yeah i though it was alot too but this professor does know what he is doing, i had him last time and he was fantastic i ended up on an awful lot of insulin last time too and required an insulin fusion while in labour. I am on Novomix which i was on last time. I had my first injection last night and my fasting number was 5.6 just above the 5.5 required but heaps better than the 6.8's etc that i have been getting. so todays results will be interesting. Yeah thankyou for caring re: hypos, i remember having a couple last time and they completely wipe you out for the day after it. The hospital actually gave me some jelly beans so they are already in my bag, as long as my DD doesn't find them they will stay in ther lol

Hope you are doing well? Are you on insulin or diet controlled? I noticed your ticker that you haven't got far to go how exciting!!!!

Take Care and i look forward to chatting really soon

[belfie]

Trac - how much insulin did you get up to last time? I only got up to 18 units, so it didn't matter during labour. That's ick that you had hypos, I was lucky enough to avoid them. GL with your birth too, as you say, we do what has to be done but I hope you get your VB too. Gee Jaylan was a good weight and omg was that a quick labour or what??! Mine was 12 hours, so yours sounds very fast to me. As for Jaylan waking, oooh that's tough. I'm lucky in that my little fellow is sleeping very well so just hoping it will continue through a newborn's arrival! Sorry to hear that you don't get to see Matthew anymore, that must be hard for you all

MamaS - I have my fingers crossed bigtime for your vbac, that's so annoying about your knife-happy ob

AFM well I went back to the dietitian this week... I didn't really want to go cos I felt like a naughty schoogirl who might get told off, but DH thought it was a good idea and convinced me I should (even the endo said don't bother!). So I went and she was lovely. Said I'm doing everything right (YAY ME!) and when I tried to pick her brains for snack ideas/takeaway/out options even she was struggling! She kept thinking of things and having to discard them (due to either my restrictions or DS's), so that was kinda validating!

And so you guys know, our household restrictions (just cos I feel like sharing hte joy!)

• me - no wheat, onion (and all onion relations, chives, leeks etc), some veg (including legume family, radicchio, artichokes, asparagus), honey, coconut and most fruit (plus no dried/concentrated fruit)... PLUS eating for GD & PG
• DS - allergic to eggs, treenuts and sesame
• DH - can't tolerate dairy

I do feel like I'm just eating the same stuff over & over... but I don't have a heap of choice really. She did say that I could try a bit of low fat icecream or frozen yoghurt for supper, so that's what I'm trying tonight, low fat icecream - very exciting! Also I'd only gained .2kg in a fortnight so she said that was great too. So I'm sooo happy now that I feel i really DID do everything to avoid insulin and now I don't have to keep a stupid food diary anymore either, yay. I'm back at the endo on Monday and see what he thinks of my numbers. have only had 1 fasting under 5.5 in a week, but as I've said before he doesn't care about that. Have had 4 post-meal BSL's over 7.5, but I was "trying" some foods that I now know to avoid... but I imagine he'll still up the insulin with that.

Hope you're all having a good week. Pantha, how are you going?

[~mamaspice~]

Hi Girls!

Trac73, yep I'm on insulin but only a small amount. My main issue was having fasting BSL's over 5.5 so I'm on an intermediate acting insulin called Protaphane in the evenings. The duration is 24 hours but It peaks from 4- 12 hours after injecting it so has corrected my fasting BSL's quite well so far. I'm on 6 units in the evening. I see the one youre on a more rapid acting one that peaks 1-4 hours after taking it. Hence why you need the 2 doses a day I guess.

belfie, wow, all those food restrictions must make things tough! Can you have custard? I have that as a treat in the evenings and it's low GI. Lower than Ice-cream i believe. I've been a bit naughty today. I've had a few lindt balls

[PanthaLily]

yeah I'm going alright.
Had my appt with the Dietician yesterday... who was suprised that I hadn't seen a Dr yet. Mentioned it to the midwife in my appt straight after and I'm seeing the Dr on the 3rd.
The dietician was really happy with my results and told me I didn't have to keep the damn food diary anymore (YAY!) and that I should only really worry if I get 3 high results in a week and not to be alarmed if my results go a bit haywire in a couple of weeks.

Came home and I got a 7 after dinner last night... and a 7.6 after breakky this morning *rolls eyes*
I'm thinking my after breakfast one today might have been a mis read or something though, because after lunch I was back down to 5.8.

I've got a horrid cold at the moment too. And of course, because it's a cold, you can't take antibiotics for it and all the cold & flu stuff says consult a Dr before taking. At one stage today I coughed so hard I think I strained a muscle in my belly :-(

Have a physio class tomorrow night, so I'm hoping that'll loosen up some of the junk sitting on my chest.

Sorry for the whingy post... guess I'm having a downer day... I'm not a good sick person lol

[~mamaspice~]

Sorry to hear you're not feeling well pantha. When you are sick it can mess with your BSL's so the high after brekky reading could be becasue of that.

[PanthaLily]

thanks MamaSpice... that was my next theory lol

If I get another 7 this week though I'll be ringing the dietician ... just to be safe.

[belfie]

Came home and I got a 7 after dinner last night... and a 7.6 after breakky this morning *rolls eyes*
I'm thinking my after breakfast one today might have been a mis read or something though, because after lunch I was back down to 5.8.

So sorry to hear you're feeling crappy, and don't apologise for the whingey post, I think it's all I ever do! As for the high BSL... firstly, yeah, what MamaS said, colds can play havoc.. and secondly, if your BSL's do start to go up, it isn't like they all go up together IYKWIM... it can be all over the place. That's definitely what mine are doing. The other thing is that if you're ever unsure about the read, you can always re-wash your hands and try doing a different finger. I've done that when it was "the" BSL that would trigger me going on insulin or not... I always double check it lol!!

MamaS - I can have custard yay. But I must admit, my little serve of LF icecream tonight was YUMMO! Re insulin, I'm on Protaphane too, but in the morning (pre-brekkie).

[Trac73]

Belfie- i cannot remember how much insulin i got to last time but for some reason i think it was about 80units a day, i do remember it just kept getting increased . Wow so many restrictions that you have to deal with, it is hard enough finding food that you are able to eat without raising your BSL's but to add other restrictions would be harder again. Goodluck

PanthaLily - Take care of yourself there is nothing worse than having a cold when your pregnant as like you said there is nothing you can do for it. How many children do you have? I know what you mean about the straining muscle pain i do it all the time and it just takes your breathe away. Try and take it easy

MamaSpice - how were your BSL;'s afer your Lindt balls? Hope you are doing well

Well AFM i handed in my maternity leave form today and i will be taking maternity leave from the 27th of Sept ( i think this will be the week i will be induced 38wks) but prior to that i am taking 2 weeks annual leave. I cannot belive that i only have 6 weeks of work to go thank goodness. Other than that things are good here, since being on the insulin my BSL seem to have stayed stable so hopefully they wont need to increase it at my next appointment in 2 weeks.....fingers crossed anyway. I bought my insulin today and i couldn't believe the price of it $33, i probably shouldn't whinge about it but it is the fact that they give you 5 boxes of 5 pens and i wil probably only use one box so it seems such a waste....
Take Care and Chat soon

[belfie]

I bought my insulin today and i couldn't believe the price of it $33, i probably shouldn't whinge about it but it is the fact that they give you 5 boxes of 5 pens and i wil probably only use one box so it seems such a waste....

Gosh I must be lucky then, my endo's office always just give it to me! So saying, I do have an NDSS form updated for insulin, but he just commented that I needed that to get more needles. That's so exciting about your mat leave, woo hoo!

Well my BSL's have been a bit better the last few days (yaaay) so that's been good. Hope everyone has a good weekend planned