Week 10: Hunger
Morning sickness drags on, but my blood sugars have (mercifully) been very normal. Somehow, they always seem to be even a bit more even-keel during the first trimester. This is either a special grace...
View ArticleWeek 11: Thanksgiving
I am proud to report that my plan from last week, not to overeat and to only eat regular meals at meal times or when my blood sugar is low, went swimmingly well over the Thanksgiving weekend. As you...
View ArticleWeek 12: First Ultrasound
I had my first ultrasound this week! The sonographer said everything looked great. I had all three boys with me, and they were great, too.Because I had the boys with me, I asked her not to do...
View ArticleWeek 13: Sticking to My Guns
I know it's a little thing, and I probably shouldn't be so bothered by it. A really small thing, and most women probably don't even notice the difference. But I've always been a detail person, and this...
View ArticleWeek 14: Advent Was Supposed to Be for Fasting
When we became Catholic, I learned that Advent - approximately four weeks before Christmas day - are supposed to be a time for penance. Almost like Lent, except not that serious. But it's the same...
View ArticleWeek 15: Christmas
After the blood sugar management failure of the last couple of weeks, Christmas was actually a surprising reprieve. I have been dialing back my insulin levels, ever so slowly, to combat the overnight...
View ArticleWeek 16: Life Within!
This week marks the first time I felt the baby move this pregnancy. What a relief! I have recently heard two stories of women who miscarried late - at 15 weeks - and was sincerely hoping that my child...
View ArticleWeek 17: Letting Go
I am finally learning to release the anxiety I have about my blood sugars. I am learning that anxiety does no one any good. Every time I have a high or a low one, I take the most reasonable course of...
View ArticleWeek 18: Endocrinologist, Round Two
My husband and I recently decided to switch to Christian Healthcare Ministries, rather than signing up for a new insurance plan. This affects the way I seek medical care, because all preventive and/or...
View ArticleWeek 19: Insurance Saga, Part 1
Since my husband entered graduate school, our insurance situation has been a bit dicey. It changes every year, every pregnancy, and every new...
View ArticleConversion Story
For those of you who might be interested to know how I became Catholic, I have my conversion story posted over at a blog called "Called to Communion." Important disclaimer: it has nothing to do with...
View ArticleWeek 20: Insurance Saga, Part 2
In my last post, I wrote about my insurance history and our most recent decision to move to "cost-sharing" through Christian Healthcare Ministries. My routine diabetes expenditures will not be covered,...
View ArticleTop 10: Dietary Changes I Never Expected To Make
When I first got diabetes, I remember being terrified to eat anything. I was 9 years old. My first day home from the hospital, I went into the kitchen in the morning and grabbed a graham cracker. After...
View ArticleWeek 21: Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy...oh boy!
I went for my comprehensive fetal anatomy scan last week and we found out we are having another BOY! That makes four little men in our home!I hope all of my exclamation marks adequately convey my...
View ArticleLearning NFP
I have no idea how many of you are unmarried, and I would gather the answer is probably, "not many." But just in case there are a few single, Type I diabetics who come across this blog with some...
View ArticleReducing C-Sections for First-Time Mothers
This is an excellent piece of news from NPR:"Women with low-risk pregnancies should be allowed to spend more time in labor, to reduce the risk of having an unnecessary C-section, the nation's...
View ArticleWeek 25: So Normal, So Extraordinary
I've felt that there has been little interesting to say about my pregnancy in the last several weeks. In my first pregnancy, I'm pretty sure I never thought or felt that. It was so new! And strange!...
View ArticleOlympic Skier with Type I Diabetes
I'm a little behind the eight-ball on this one, since the Olympics were a month ago. But here's an article about a neat athlete named Kris Freeman. As an amateur professional athlete, he was diagnosed...
View ArticleEarly Labor?! But Still No Baby
At about 36 weeks, I had a bout of pre-term labor. Granted, I was barely pre-term at that point, but I was totally unprepared to have a baby. I hadn't given much thought to much of anything except...
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Birth Story #4: The Scholar
Our fourth son was born on Monday, June 16 at 9:26 a.m. after about 12 hours of labor, at 39w1d or 39w5d gestation (depending on whose due date you like best). He was eight pounds, eight ounces, 19.5...
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