time to update I guess

When I see how often I update our blog, my pregnancy seems to go by so fast! But when I think about how long I have been pregnant (and how long I still have to go) I feel like it has been creeping by!

Well, to update. I found out 6 weeks ago that I have gestational diabetes--yup, I am one of the lucky ones. A few things that I found out about gestational diabetes that made me feel a little better:
1. It is not my fault. I was worried sick for days that this is something that I caused myself and that I should be ashamed of it. I learned that when you are pregnant your body actually produces anti-insulin hormones, so your body has to work 3X harder to produce insulin, and my body just won't produce enough - so there is nothing I could have done to prevent it.
2. I will do anything in the world to make sure our little girl is healthy and safe. I never thought I could "diet" while pregnant, but it has actually been easy since I know that I am doing it for my little baby. I can't say that it has been totally easy to not eat all the sweets and desserts and french fries I want, but I will say that since finding out, I have not touched one of these things (even on my birthday--no cake, no ice cream, no nothing!). She is already worth all of this!
3. Our little baby can stay little if I can keep my sugars in check. One of the biggest side effects of gestational diabetes is large, pre-term babies. Pre-term babies because your baby grows too large too fast and so your body thinks the babe is full-term. I went in for a 45 minute ultra sound the week after I found out about diabetes, and she was measuring right on schedule, at that time she was 2.5 pounds and a perfect length around 16 inches (and we got to see that everything else looks good too!). Such a relief!

So that basically consumes my life now. Monitoring my carb intake (only 45 per meal, and 15 per snack with 2 snacks a day) and making sure to get in some exercise and having to check my blood sugars 2 hours after each meal (turns out your fingers just get numb after being pricked a few hundred times). Eating out is probably the hardest thing since most places do not have nutrition information available, so I've just avoided eating out pretty much most meals except for when I went to St. George for work. The good news is that I have kept my weight pretty much the same for the past 6 weeks, and I won't complain about that since I feel like a huge-o mama already!

Only 8 1/2 weeks to go until we get to meet this little one! I am so excited, but so nervous too!! I want to see her little face and hands and feet, but I am so scared to be responsible for another human life! She will be worth it though!