Congratulations!  I know it's scary but there's no reason you can't carry a healthy baby. Of course there are risks but if you take care of yourself you should be fine.  Make sure you are seeing a high-risk OB and you absolutely have to watch your diet.  Your sugars will continue to rise as the pregnancy progresses.  For me my diet had to constantly change.  Stuff I could eat during the first 3-4 months of my pregnancy were totally out of question later on.  My sugars would sky rocket if I ate them....stuff like milk, cereal, bread, etc.  But I could eat a ton of pasta and was fine.  Try to eat more protein.  I was sent to a dietician so maybe you will be too.  I'm going to try and get pregnant with #2 this year so maybe we'll be pregnant at the same time for a little while.  A little sacrifice for 9 months is a small price to pay for a healthy child. 

 

Michelle :)

 

 

Hey! Congratulations on your pregnancy! I haven't posted on here in a long, long time so just catching up on some reading.

My child is just over a year now, and absolutely wonderful. They are so worth everything we have to go thru to get there!! LOL.

In my pregnancy my sugars started off getting low all the time, then started to rise and rise and kept on rising until I gave birth. By the end of my pregnancy I was taking over 20 units of Humalog for just one meal, plus long acting insulin. I started having to wake up at 3 am to take even more. It was grueling, checking sugars all the time and traveling 3 hrs every week to see a team of special drs and a dietician. Then when I had her my sugars dropped dramatically the next day, to where I hardly had to take anything because I was breastfeeding, and it takes lots of energy apparently to do that!! I was told by the drs that its very normal for your sugars to fluncuate like that, its just ultra important to keep an eye on them.

And I'm glad I did. She is now a very energetic healthy child. Now I worry about passing diabetes on, but I try not to think about it too much.

 

 

Thank you all for your support!  It's greatly appreciated!!  It's been hard, to loose a child you bonded with for only a short time, but it was our child. 

 

Much love to you all!

Lacy

I too am sorry Lacy for your loss.  My thoughts are with you. 

 

Michelle