I DID IT!!

Here is the update that I'm sure that many of you are anxiously waiting to hear about. The big diabetic educator and nutritionist appointments. Sorry its taken SO long to post, but Friday I crashed when we finally got home after 9:30pm. Then Saturday we didn't get home until after 11pm (read other blogs that appear before this one to find out about our weekend), and Sunday it was almost 10pm when we finally got home. LONG weekend. But so fun.

Ok for the fun stuff. I had my appointment on Friday. What a great way to spend my birthday. First we met with the diabetic educator and she told us how my body is processing sugar at the moment which isn't very efficiently, and how we are going to plan to keep it in check. Also this will help me be able to hopefully succeed in a VBAC with this baby. I really want to experience a birth that way, but I need to do my part between now and the next 7 months before the birth. So then she pulled out a fun little glucose meter. HA. I was terrified. I HATE needles and it freaked me out so much when I saw the kit that I got sweaty palms. She took everything out and showed me how to do it and then guess what, it was my turn.

It took me about a minute to actually get the guts to do this (call me chicken) but I did!! AND, it didn't even hurt. Mind you it wasn't on a "deep" enough setting so I had to up the depth on my poker thing to a 2 from a 1. The 2 hurts a bit more but its a quick poke and then the hurt is over. Something I can handle. So, I get to do this 5 times a day and record it and go back on Friday to go over my results. So far they look decent to me but who knows.

Then we went to the nutritionist and went over portion size and ideas for foods to eat and such. Nothing I haven't heard before. Lot's of good information overall though. So, the good news is there isn't much to worry about right now and I just have to test and keep track and then let the doctors know on Friday when I go in. I will be going on a weekly or bi-monthly or monthly basis for now. We aren't sure until Friday since it depends on my sugar levels. So there you go, not to exciting, but I promised to update everyone after the appointment!! I might even take a pic at some point and you can see my nifty meter and what I have to do. So fun!!