Week 8
Diabetic victory of the week: I made some changes to basal rates and bolus ratios last weekend that got me through a good three days. Sometimes that’s all the success I need to keep me...
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Diabetes victory of the week: None. Well, except maybe that I did finally figure out FOR SURE that the Dexcom sensor reading undercuts my postprandial peak by 30-50 mg/dL. I'm worried about how often...
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Diabetes victory of the week: My Dexcom numbers look pretty good, and by that, I mean pretty low. I’m happy with them. I’ve consistently aimed for 60-90 fasting blood sugar and below 130 for two hours...
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Diabetes victory of the week: Not freaking out about a few blood sugars over 150 mg/dL, and giving it an appropriate amount of time to come back down.Diabetes failure of the week: My insulin...
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Diabetes victory of the week: Not suffering a paralyzing amount of anxiety about gaining a (rather normal amount of) pregnancy weight and supposedly not exercising enough (as I was told to do more of...
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Diabetes victory of the week: After transcribing an interview in which an Australian man was emphatically criticizing the eating habits of diabetics, I admitted that I probably could do more to cut out...
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Diabetes victory of the week: My A1C is 5.3, without any life-disrupting lows, and my baby's growth percentile is 50th percentile. This is a major win for me!Diabetes failure of the week: Nothing? I'm...
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Diabetes victory of the week: I think I'm still just riding the high from learning that my A1C last week is 5.3% and my baby is healthy. But also, my blood sugar only got low (below 50 mg/dL) one night...
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Diabetes victory of the week: This week felt like more of a failure than the last several have, but the last several have been flat-out awesome, so I think it's a matter of perspective. The feeling of...
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Diabetes victory of the week: Even though we spent two days in the car driving to our vacation spot, my blood sugar only went above 200 mg/dL once this week!Diabetes failure of the week: I need to be...
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Diabetes victory of the week: My fasting blood sugars are great when I wake up in the morning! Just don't look at what happens during the nine hours when I'm asleep/waking up to turn off sensor alarms...
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Diabetes victory of the week: My A1C was 5.3! Thanks, CGM/insulin pump and intuition developed over years and years of diabetes experience.Diabetes failure of the week: I turned off my basal when I...
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Diabetes victory of the week: To be honest, this week was not a great blood sugar week, and I know why. I gained a couple pounds this week, and so I assume baby had a growth spurt. That means a lot...
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Diabetes victory of the week: The lows are lower and more persistent and the highs are, too, but I think this is just the way it is with diabetes during pregnancy. I remember lots of crying and anxiety...
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Diabetes victory of the week: Identifying exactly one pattern in the blood sugar readings on my sensor that I could act on.Diabetes failure of the week: I can't really consider any of these personal...
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Diabetes victory of the week: I think I only had two blood sugars over 200 in the last week. My sensor readings are consistently low, but when I calibrate because I don't trust the sensor's low...
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Diabetes victory of the week: Blood sugars were back to (mostly) normal this week. Nighttime lows, in particular, are not really waking me up at all, at least not that I can remember in the last 5 days...
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Diabetes victory of the week: I was able to make some adjustments to basal rates and bolus ratios that I think will help. These were, by far, the most dramatic changes. All daytime basal rates...
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Diabetes victory of the week: I adjusted my basals and my overnight numbers are pretty good. I adjusted my bolus ratios and my two hours postprandials are very rarely high.Diabetes failure of the week:...
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Diabetes victory of the week: My overnight lows have been almost non-existent, and for some reason, this pregnancy, the post-breakfast lows in the morning haven't really been very troublesome, either....
View ArticleWeek 40
I have been incommunicado, but I am STILL PREGNANT! I have passed every due date given to me, and stand now at 40w1d according to the very latest due date I could have possibly given myself, based on...
View ArticleThe Birth of Good News
Our first little girl was born to us at 2:30 in the afternoon. She was 7 pounds, 10 ounces, 21 inches, 40w4d, and “born in the normal way.”****************I know I’ve talked a big game about induction...
View ArticleLucky Number Seven: Pregnancy
Because it was unclear to us that the middle of a global pandemic was really such a great reason to avoid having another baby, we did what married people do, and then blushed our way through pregnancy...
View ArticleLucky Number Seven: Birth
A few weeks before our seventh son's birth, I invited friends to a birth blessing over Zoom. A birth blessing is kind of like a baby shower, but with prayer instead of gifts. I think I’ve mentioned...
View ArticleLucky Number Seven: Aftermath
At the end of my post about his birth, my son was teetering on the edge of life and transferred to a hospital 60 miles away from us. It took a month of hospital treatment for him to be sent home, but...
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