Gestational Diabetes

The all mighty placenta releases hormones into the blood stream which increases every pregnant woman’s chance to get gestational diabetes and the more placenta you have the higher the risk. Carrying double, doubles your average chance. Yay twins!



Crap…



Kristy went for her 2 hour diabetes test (Which, for all you non pregnant people out there, is normal procedure.) and found that she is just slightly off the numbers that our Dr. wanted to see. Basically Kristy’s insulin isn’t working properly to get the sugars into the blood. That means that she now has to go see a gestational diabetes dietician to talk about what she can/has to do and what her new diet is going to be… which, honestly, isn’t very different than what she is eating right now. There are some slight changes, but nothing major.



Our Dr. thinks that Kristy can manage her diabetes with a diet change and won’t need insulin injections. That’s good, right? The GD dietician will go over Kristy’s diet with her and see if there is anything that can be tweaked or modified. She will also get test strips and a monitor that will test and keep track of her blood sugars. She gets to do that for a couple of weeks and then go back to talk to the GD dietician who will go over the results and test her blood sugars and if everything is good and even with the dietary changes nothing else has to be done except maintain that diet. If that doesn’t do it and her blood sugars won’t normalize or increase then she might have to go on insulin.



The tests start out with a pre-glucose fasting blood sugar test, which is the most crucial and was normal at 4.1/5, followed by a super tasty orange McDonalds type drink, the one hour post-glucose blood sugar test, which is less crucial and was right on the cusp at 9.9/9.9, and the two hour post-glucose blood sugar test, which is least crucial and the easiest to manage through diet and Kristy’s score was 9/8.4. So not too bad, all things considered.



The diet basically states a higher protein intake; no/low sugar intake and spreading carbohydrates evenly throughout the day should normalize her blood sugars. Like I said earlier, the diet plan that Kristy was given is pretty much what she’s been maintaining already, it’s just the consistency of eating times and a slight decrease in some of the higher sugar vegetables that will change. Not too big a deal.



We just happened to get all this info amidst our frantic last minute packing on moving day. Yippy, an added stress to the ones already in place:

1) Our movers got the wrong time and showed up four hours early, went to another last minute move and ended up being three hours late.

2) Kristy getting frustrated with not being “allowed” to help move anything. I can sympathize, that would drive me nuts.

3) We had to pick up a friend in Oak Bay, that was taking one of our couches, and drive it and her into Sooke. (I kinda liked the drive and she was really doing us a favor, so it wasn’t too bad, it just made a long day longer.)

4) Now we add the last minute Dr.’s appointment about a pretty serious topic and you have an interesting day indeed.

On the up side, the moving guy that owns the business liked the effort that I put in to help the move go along faster and offered me a job. Which was nice of him. We ended up having a few things in common too. Both being musicians and having/expecting twins. He had a boy and a girl and they're 25 now but, we had a good conversation about his experiences and what he recomends and loved about having twins. Cool guy. He felt guilty sbout the mix up and being late so didn't charge us for the extras (a matress bag, trolly use, extra moving plankets, wardrob boxes, and picture protectors) and gave us a bit of a discount to boot. A to B moving if your interested. We've hired them a few times.
Anyways, I’m glad that day’s over.



Till next time,

~M~