Some Additional Stuff

I'm absolute crap at keeping up with blogs. I just wanted to give some info I remember to anyone who may stumble across this.

I found that the breakfast smoothie I drank every morning needed to be tweaked as the weeks went on. Heck, even as the days went on. I began noticing my sugars got higher each time I drank the smoothie. Eventually I had to stop drinking it for breakfast because my sugars were getting higher than they should be.

But the fun things I found out were that I handled Pizza Hut personal sized pan pizzas just fine. I just got the plain pepperoni. I craved pizza so much during pregnancy and my oldest sister sent me a $30 gift card for Pizza Hut and it saved me some misery. That stuff was like crack for me. While there is definitely more fat on those personal pans than you should have, there's enough protein from the cheese and pepperoni to offset the carbs in the crust and tomato sauce.

Also if I really wanted fast food, I ate Carl's Jr (Hardees for anyone living in the south). I just got the Big Carl meal (it's a two patty cheeseburger that comes with everything but tomatoes, I don't like that stuff so I order it with just the cheese as a topping) with onion rings instead of the fries (the amount of carbs in the little bit of crumbs on the onions was less than what was in the french fries, you could also go for their fried zucchini which is a great choice if you want a veggie and something fresh, they only cook them when they're ordered). I got a diet coke to drink. I opted for caffeine instead of sugar for the drink. In this case caffeine was the lesser of two evils. While my sugars were a bit higher than normal, they were still well within range for the hour test.

So it's all what you order. At McDonald's it's probably best to skip the fries or just get a small pack of them and then get chicken nuggets instead of a burger and then a diet drink if you want a soda. And that's IF you want their bad food and not one of their salads or something. At Wendy's I love the spicy chicken sandwich. Order that without the sauce and just take off the bun. I get them plain. And go with the small size because they really don't have any sides that work well with it, unless they have little salads.

But just think high protein, low starch, low sugar and you'll be good.

Oh and for those of you who are being talked to about induction. If you've never been induced, and especially if this is your first child. I would sit down and write out all the pros and cons of being induced. I was induced because I was a day or two over 40 weeks. While I did get to go to within two days of 41 weeks thanks to scheduling conflicts, I still should have been allowed to go longer. My delivery was just awful thanks to the induction. I just did a persuasive paper in English class and used induction as the topic. I found that there are 7 risks of induction on first time mothers (I'm guessing there are at least some, if not all, of these risks for any induction) and I ended up with four of them. I developed an infection, my son's heartrate dropped due to lack of oxygen because of the pitocin causing such hard contractions, I had to have a c-section, and the last one I can't remember. It also didn't help that I was having back labor and my body processes some drugs so fast they barely have time to work. I ended up getting stadol and an epidural but neither worked very long (stadol 15 minutes, epi 2 hours even with pressing the button and having the constant drip upped). Ended up having to get this stuff that better than an epidural and went through some horrendous pain when it was first administered and every muscle in my torso seized and I couldn't breathe because of it. It worked like a charm but the first does lasted 2 hours, the second 1 hour, and the third 30 minutes. By the time that last does started to wear off I gave up on a vaginal birth. I was too tired and knew I'd not have the strength to push and I was still at 7cm after 46 hours in labor. Course it didn't matter because by then it had been 22 hours since my water had been broken and I'd developed an infection. From that the placenta became infected and my son was born with sepsis (blood infection) and he had to stay in the hospital for 10 days in order to receive antibiotics. I stayed with him the whole time since they moved him to pediatrics.

It was a very bad experience but it hasn't put me off having another and the next time I know to be wary of induction and I know that there's no point in having pain meds and racking up a huge bill thanks to them because they're not going to work.  Oh and when I got into the OR and they were trying to put in the spinal block, it took them 10 tries to get the needle to go in right because my muscles were so tense from all the pain for such a long time that they kept bending the needle.

So yeah, do your homework about inductions. There are plenty of women who have been fine with them but it's better to know the risks than to listen to what other women went through, even me. Just go do your homework and make an informed decision. Don't let your OB or whoever talk you into something you don't know much about.

And this will be the last for this blog. Though if I happen  to remember something great I'll post it. Hope those of you who come across this and read it find it at least somewhat helpful in getting you through your 12 weeks of gestational diabetes.