It's been a little while, I know. My apologies, but life has honestly been crazy. And by crazy I mean insanely busy... What, pray tell, keeps a pregnant (temporary) stay at home mom of a four year old who is not currently working so busy you ask?? Well, good question. The answer lies within the four year old. --->HE IS BUSY. Literally, there are times when I feel like Ryder's personal secretary or agent rather than just his mom. Today for example, his cousin Emily was staying nearby at Great Grandma and Grandpa's house so we headed to pick her up for the day and spend some time with her swimming in Auntie Lissa's apartment complex pool. All was splended and well and then on the way home I found out Ryder's daddy wanted to take him out to dinner and a movie tonight (they saw the Smurfs--Ryder apparently loved it)... These busy days are not unusual or unique to my little man, they are simply his way of life and I'm sure he wouldn't have it any other way, so for now, we roll with it although I have a feeling that this mommy is in serious need of a SLOW DOWN very shortly as this 31 week preggo body of mine simply can't keep up like it used to....
Anyway--for a short catch up of this pregnancy, as I mentioned, I am on my 31st week which means NINE weeks to go (hopefully more like 7?? Okay, okay, whenever the baby is fully ready to come out, but a girl can dream). Although I still feel incredibly blessed to be as healthy as I have been so far with this pregnancy, we have had a minor setback or so along the way including finding out that I failed my glucose screening test at my 28 week prenatal appointment. I then had the 'pleasure' of sitting at my local clinic the following week for a glorious three and half hours and doing the full glucose test and having my blood drawn every hour. Two days later I received the phone call from my doctor informing me that again I failed (with a capital F this time) the test and that I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes..... Umm....excuse me?? I honestly was very upset to find that out because of many reasons: first of all, I was scared because I didn't know what that really meant for me or for this baby, second of all, I felt guilty - as if I had done something wrong along the way and was being a 'bad mom' or something, and third of all, my doctor mentioned the word D-I-E-T to follow and to a pregnant chic, that's enough to make you want to cry! ---Which I did plenty of for that entire day. I basically had a pity party and burst into tears everytime I started thinking about everything. (Side note, when I was crying at lunch to Max, Ryder announced that he was going to "say a little prayer to God" and proceeded to ask God to "please take mommy's sad away and make her happy again so we can have a happy day"----I had to add this in here because I NEVER want to forget the little things that come out of his mouth and astound me sometimes :) ) Anyway, the next day Max and I headed to Willmar and met with a nurse practioner and a dietician and started learning about what G.D. is, what it means, what it could mean down the line, how it affects our little girl, and what we need to do to keep me and her healthy. By this time my pity party was over and I was just ready to make some changes... Yes, following a diet has been the main thing but really, I haven't had to change too much of what I eat, I just have to pay a lot more attention to when I eat and how many carbs I eat at every meal and snack. I have to write EVERYTHING down and also have to do some finger prickin' to test my glucose levels 4 times a day. This is completely doable, although again, for a pregnant girl with cravings, it is by no means fun all the time (or anytime for that matter). If you would have told me two months ago that I would be giving up chocolate, pasta, sugar, cookies, ice cream, chips, deserts, and mass amounts of fruit during this pregnancy I would have probably laughed in your face and then flicked you off as I went on my way to grab a cookie :) Just saying... No really, I consider myself to be a pretty healthy eater in general and the things I listed above are NOT things that I eat on a daily basis of course, but it's summer and there are plenty of get togethers and potlucks or just meals on the run when we are out and about that make it very easy to want to indulge sometimes but unfortunately, most of that has all been cut out of my life, for now. Currently, my days consist around lots of meats, cheeses, salads, fruit in small quantities, diet hot chocolate when I'm craving chocolate, and sugar free popsicles when I'm craving a treat! I meet with the dietician again on Friday and she'll review all of my numbers and see how I've been doing and I pray it goes well... I have been doing everything I can to avoid going on meds/insulin for the diabetes because I'm pregnant and to be honest, just don't want anything other than food going into my body at this point, but I guess we will just have to wait and see... As for now, it's late and I am going to climb into bed and hopefully have sweet dreams about all those delicious snacks that I've had to seperate myself from... :)
