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I don't know how other women handle the news that they have pre-gestational diabetes or full blown gestational diabetes. I was extremely shocked because other than eating fruit, the occasional dark chocolate, and one teaspoon of sugar in my coffee I am not really in to sweets. Not to the point where it warrants me having GD. What I found most amazing about this prognosis was that all I got was an information sheet on how to eat "properly" according to the American Heart Association's equivalent of what a healthy diet should be. I strongly disagreed with the ridiculous food pyramid which requires an absurd amount of fruit, and carbs, and other nonsense. I have always eaten a very clean diet. My ancestry is Italian and we pride ourselves in eating healthy.
Since the prognosis I took my blood sugar every day. And wrongly might I add. I was under the impression that you test you glucose level 1 hour after you have finished eating, instead the hour begins as soon as you commence eating. So for the past 5 months I had been taking it the wrong way, I guess that is what happens when you try to teach yourself something that a nutritionist or a doctor is supposed to teach you. I just figured that the nurse practitioner was over worked and really had no time to explain how to do it correctly. Nevertheless, in month five of my pregnancy I decided to cut out carbs in the form of bread, pasta, rice, grain, and potatoes and I also limit my fruit intake to 1 and a half pieces accompanied by a fat like cream or ricotta. I figured early on that the carbs actually converted to sugar, I may as well have been eating a bag of lollies. Since then my blood sugars are pretty well under control. Below 100 fasting blood sugar, and way below 140 post meal. The numbers pretty much depend on what I eat. But I figured out what causes the spikes. If I followed that ridiculous food pyramid there was no way that my blood sugar would be this low. My recommendation to anyone that is told they are on their way to developing GD should immediately cut out carbs and sugar (including fruit, only have 1 piece a day) increase their good fats (butter, olive oil, cream, coconut oil) and mix the food up, for example one protein, two veggie.
One thing I have learned from this pregnancy is that the pregnancy process is highly medacalized here in the United Stats it is considered to be a condition. There is so much intervention during pregnancy that I began to feel impotent, as though I should just surrender my rights as a human being and let the American medical industry make all the decisions for me. Sooner or later women will have no control and we will be told to stay in bed the whole 9 months while being fed intravenously by some pharmaceutical company's new pregnant woman formula, and what they consider is best for the baby. What is more surprising is that when I changed providers from an Obgyn, to a midwife she said that my A1c levels are considered to diabetic not pre-gestational diabetes. So who the fuck is right and who doesn't know shit. Then After that I get told that I could have had diabetes before I was pregnant and didn't even know it which means my baby could have a defect, so now they want me to have a fetal cardiogram to check his heart. I think I will say no, because I am already half way through so what could they really do to help at this stage? Lesson learned, no one is informed and no one knows anything.
Since the prognosis I took my blood sugar every day. And wrongly might I add. I was under the impression that you test you glucose level 1 hour after you have finished eating, instead the hour begins as soon as you commence eating. So for the past 5 months I had been taking it the wrong way, I guess that is what happens when you try to teach yourself something that a nutritionist or a doctor is supposed to teach you. I just figured that the nurse practitioner was over worked and really had no time to explain how to do it correctly. Nevertheless, in month five of my pregnancy I decided to cut out carbs in the form of bread, pasta, rice, grain, and potatoes and I also limit my fruit intake to 1 and a half pieces accompanied by a fat like cream or ricotta. I figured early on that the carbs actually converted to sugar, I may as well have been eating a bag of lollies. Since then my blood sugars are pretty well under control. Below 100 fasting blood sugar, and way below 140 post meal. The numbers pretty much depend on what I eat. But I figured out what causes the spikes. If I followed that ridiculous food pyramid there was no way that my blood sugar would be this low. My recommendation to anyone that is told they are on their way to developing GD should immediately cut out carbs and sugar (including fruit, only have 1 piece a day) increase their good fats (butter, olive oil, cream, coconut oil) and mix the food up, for example one protein, two veggie.
One thing I have learned from this pregnancy is that the pregnancy process is highly medacalized here in the United Stats it is considered to be a condition. There is so much intervention during pregnancy that I began to feel impotent, as though I should just surrender my rights as a human being and let the American medical industry make all the decisions for me. Sooner or later women will have no control and we will be told to stay in bed the whole 9 months while being fed intravenously by some pharmaceutical company's new pregnant woman formula, and what they consider is best for the baby. What is more surprising is that when I changed providers from an Obgyn, to a midwife she said that my A1c levels are considered to diabetic not pre-gestational diabetes. So who the fuck is right and who doesn't know shit. Then After that I get told that I could have had diabetes before I was pregnant and didn't even know it which means my baby could have a defect, so now they want me to have a fetal cardiogram to check his heart. I think I will say no, because I am already half way through so what could they really do to help at this stage? Lesson learned, no one is informed and no one knows anything.
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