218 days pregnant & dealing with Gestational Diabetes

Today I am 217 days pregnant ( 31 weeks and 1 day).

As I mentioned on previous posts, I had been diagnosed

with Gestation Diabetes. I think I left you on the last post

saying that I was going to visit with the doc and possibly have

to get insulin. Well, yep he said I need insulin. The diet

wasn't working, so I take 5 injections a day!! UGH

It hasn't been "as bad" as I thought. I take Humulin by syringe

in the morning and at night (2 doses) and then the

Humalog pen with breakfast, lunch, and dinner (3 doses). The

pen is very similar to what I used in my fertility treatments, so

I felt like a pro! ha I was really nervous to use the syringe, but

the needle wasn't big at all, infact it hurts less than the pen!!

Here is a little bit of info for those who aren't very familar

with gestational diabetes:

When you eat, your digestive system breaks most of your food

down into a type of sugar called glucose. The glucose enters your

bloodstream and then — with the help of insulin, a hormone

made by your pancreas — provides fuel for the cells of your

body. Like the type 1 and type 2 diabetes you can get when

you're not pregnant, gestational diabetes causes the glucose

to stay in your blood instead of moving into your cells and

getting converted to energy. Why does this sometimes happen

when you're pregnant? During pregnancy, your hormones make

it tougher for your body to use insulin, so your pancreas needs

to produce more of it. For most moms-to be, this isn't a

problem: As your need for insulin increases, your pancreas

dutifully secretes more of it. But when a woman's pancreas

can't keep up with the insulin demand and her blood glucose

levels get too high, the result is gestational diabetes.Most

women with gestational diabetes don't remain diabetic once

the baby is born. Once you've had it, though, you're at higher

risk for getting it again during a future pregnancy and for

becoming diabetic later in life.

My next OB appt is on the 30th. I believe they'll will be keeping

a close watch on Miss Stella so that she doesn't get too big!

For most women with gestational diabetes, the main worry is that

too much glucose will end up in the baby's blood. When that

happens, the baby's pancreas needs to produce more insulin

to process the extra glucose. All this excess blood sugar and

insulin can cause your baby to make more fat and put on extra

weight, particularly in the upper body.

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Today I am 30 weeks preggo =) Hard to believe I have only

10 weeks or less until I meet baby Robinson A.K.A. Stella.

After seeing her on the 3D ultrasound, I feel more than

ready to be her mommy. I cannot wait until the day I

can hold her and introduce her to her daddy and sisters

who are overjoyed to meet her as well!

This past weekend I finally got all of her clothes hung up.

I still haven't bought anything brand new for Miss S, all

of her clothes are either her sisters or from yard sales. But

they are the cutest clothes eva! lol I will however probably buy

her a new dress to wear home from the hospital =)

I need to get to wal-mart and just buy all of her necessities,

baby shampoo, lotions, diapers, wipes, etc. Other than

that I think we're set!!

So on my last post I posted about having gestational diabetes.

This week I've tested my blood sugar every day, 4x's a day.

My numbers have come down some with diet, but not to what

they "should" be. I meet with the doc Friday, we'll see what

he says. It really hasn't been hard cutting out the sugar/sweets

b/c I haven't craved them at all this pregnancy. It's the carbs

that is tough =( Anything for my little princess tho!

I meet with a dietician today to go over some meal plans, etc.

I finally got to feeling "myself" again after the pneumonia. I

got some of my energy back...and just in time! Hunter got the

flu last week and was pretty much "out of it" for a week =(

Thanks to my awesome mom, we quarantined her to one

bedroom and bathroom and nobody else got sick...thank God!

Alli Jo has been getting sinus infections again, and I was hoping it

wouldn't be so many since she had her tonsils out last spring.

She still snores quite a bit as well, so I'm hoping with time that

will all go away...poor girl!

There hasn't been many other body changes, except for this

ever growing belly! I cannot sleep at night and it is getting harder

and harder to turn in bed. I have very painful ligament pains, sort

of like "popping" when I turn in bed. I also have some cramping

which I know is just "growing pains" so to speak. And I dont' have

to even mention how many times I use the restroom in the middle of

the night LOL

Here's what's going on with Stella this week:

Your baby's about 15.7 inches long now, and she weighs almost

3 pounds. A pint and a half of amniotic fluid surrounds her, but

that volume will decrease as she gets bigger and takes up more

room in your uterus. Her eyesight continues to develop, though

it's not very keen; even after she's born, she'll keep her eyes

closed for a good part of the day. When she does open them,

she'll respond to changes in light but will have 20/400 vision —

which means she can only make out objects a few inches from her face.

203 days pregnant

Thursday I was 203 days pregnant (29 weeks)!

Getting closer to meeting our angel every day =)

I found out this week I have gestational diabetes.

For those of you who don't know what that is;

gestational diabetes is high blood sugar (diabetes) that starts or

is first diagnosed durning pregnancy.

I had my glucose screening last week, and my number was

double what it should be...so I skipped the 4 hr test and

went straight to seeing an endocrine specialist.

We are seeing how my numbers look this week, and if

they don't lower I will need insulin.

I test my blood sugar 4x's/day. Took me a little bit to

get used to...but I'll do anything for my baby girl!

Here are a few pictures we captured in 3D of Miss Stella