Sorry to hear that Belfie.
I didn't find the insulin as bad as I was expecting. I hardly felt the needles, except when I, must have hit a nerve or something, and even then it was just a sting. Hope you find the same.
Do you know what unsulin your going to be on?
Thanks Tenny & Becci. Dunno what i'll be put on. The DE rang me back after hours on Fri to say it's not urgent but we'd like to start you on insulin... can you come in Monday.
Did i mention that i"m sick of people saying oh I knew someone with GD and they managed it fine? TBH think I'm a bit freaked about the whole insulin thing and started thinking that maybe I could have been better with the diet... I thought I was doing ok... but maybe a dietician would have helped me avoid it? I was given the number of one (avail ONLY between 9-11 on Weds ) and of course i got caught up & didn't ring her in time
My other whinge is my aunt died on Weds (cancer - was quite quick)... I was mostly ok, sad for my mum. My mum is now coming over (next week) for the funeral - Dad can't come cos he just had hip surgery (yesterday). So ok, I can look after mum, and am feeling ok to support her at funeral (her sis, obviously much closer r/ship than my aunt). Then my bro (who is like seriously the worst house guest in the world!), wants to come plus my sis (who I love to bits) - um that's 3 houseguests!
Then on the way home on Friday, there's this huge crash at the intersection in front of us (we're in the right turn lane).... one car ends up skidding along the central verge towards us... hits both cars in front of us... we watched in slow motion ... it missed us by INCHES!!!!! The nice thing - in our new Forester (just got this a mth ago) so I felt very very safe. The insane thing... I was worried it would scratch my pretty new car (how stupid is that!?!?). I really would just like to have a nice peaceful uneventful week!
On the bright side, thank goodness I finish work in 2 weeks... but in the interim, I'm absolutely flat out trying to finish everything off, insanely relieved that we're ok & didn't get crashed into. As for the guests & funeral... I'll deal with that next week. Can my brain implode now????? Should I just hibernate under the doona for the weekend? Might be safer!
I just re-read diabetes chatter #4 cos it seemed like all you guys cope so well, and I feel like a big stupid mess always bawling over something (latest thing being the insulin of course)... so reading that all made it me feel a bit better - I guess it's just adjustment time. I just feel like i'm the only one at this stage of the GD stuff... and I'm sick of feeling like the weird/"special" one. If only 10-15% of GD's get put on insulin, why did it have to be me? I seem to be getting a bit of m/s back in the evenings too - so by the time I get home from work, i"m absolutely stuffed, lie on the sofa feeling ill- can barely organise myself enough to plan lunch for next day, organise clothes before I'm sleeping then trying to get myself out of the door for the next day of work... and the whole combination with my pre-existing diet just totally sux!! When I was reading the previous chatter, seriously 90% of the foods you guys try/find that works, I can't even eat!! I cannot buy ANYTHING near work for lunch at all, so I bring everything. I'm sick of thinking about food. And all the Dr's just seem to think oh well you'll manage.
So then I decided to read more about GD & try educate myself more... and they were saying that most babies with insulin-dependant mums might have to go to special care nursery for 24-48 hours... which also freaked me out.
um so sorry this is a late night self-indulgent post. I just wish I could cope with all this better but I go to work and I put on a brave face, and I say all the right things. Just wish I felt like that on the inside.
Belfie, just quickly because I can hear my DS calling mum, but he didn't have to spend 24-48 hours in special care, neither did the other baby that was in my room and both of us mums were on insulin. DS was in special care for about 1/2 hour because of his breathing but nothing to do with GD. The important thing is to BF (or FF if that is what you are planning ) asap after the birth so if they are born with low BSL the milk will bring it up and hopefully keep them out of special care. I was on a glucose/insulin drip during labour to keep my BSL's stable (they were climbing even without food) and DS had normal sugar levels when he was out.
Belfie - I would love to be there tomorrow if I could possum lol
We are all allowed to have the poor me's at some stage! Gawd you have enought to deal with atm so vent away!
So sorry to hear about your aunt. No wonder your levels have been up if you have been under that much stress too.
Try to think of the insulin as medicine for bubs. That might help to make things easier for you.
Ethan didn't have to go anywhere after he was born. His bsls were low by morning, so they gave us a bottle of formula to give him which helped. They got me to bf every 2 hours to keep his levels up and it helped, but he was having trouble latching on so wasn't getting much. But regardless of that his levels still went up.
I was apparently meant to have an insulon drip in too. It was meant to be organised on my last visit which I cancelled as my levels were fine. No one told me that they would organise my drip (which I knew nothing about) then.
Anyway they wouldn't have had time to get it in anyway. They barely got the thing in for the penicillin as it was.
They did get me to take a bsl while I was in labor (not easy to do with contractions a minute or so apart) and it was 6.3, so they were happy.
Good luck for tomorrow. You won't need it, and please don't be scared of the needles, I hardly felt them at all, and I'm a complete wus when it comes to pain and needles.
Thank you so much for your posts - they really helped
I'm feeling a heap more sane/positive/happy today (amazing what a day of resting/sleeping/taking it easy does for you). I'm really happy to hear that neither of your bubbas needed to go into a special care because of BSL's, that really set my mind at rest. And wow, Becci that's impressive taking your BSL's between contractions. (oh and yes, I'm hoping to BF too btw).
Re the insulin, well I guess sometimes the anticipation is worse than the real thing. Funny thing is I don't normally mind needles, it's just the thought of doing it to myself that gets me most of all. Dear H offered to do them for me... very sweet, but doesn't really help when I'm at work! And yes, thinking it's meds for bubba is a good thought.
Hope you both had a nice weekend and your gorgeous boys are going well. I'm cleaning up ready for my visitors and had great fun folding all my baby clothes (and hiding all the boy clothes - cos they don't know he's a boy!).
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) and of course i got caught up & didn't ring her in time
but I go to work and I put on a brave face, and I say all the right things. Just wish I felt like that on the inside.
) asap after the birth so if they are born with low BSL the milk will bring it up and hopefully keep them out of special care. I was on a glucose/insulin drip during labour to keep my BSL's stable (they were climbing even without food) and DS had normal sugar levels when he was out.
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