Bah.

It would seem that glucose testing has taken the place of blogging this past week.  Well, and a work project that's due in a week, but is a substantial number of hours (who knew I had "free time" to squeeze in more work?)  I do have a couple of posts in the queue- I'll likely hit publish on those tomorrow.  For now, I am feeling a little overwhelmed.  Monitoring blood sugar is basically the worst.  I plan my meals according to when I can test (has to be one-hour after I start eating) so I can't, for instance, eat lunch before my haircut because I don't want to test at my hair appointment.  You know?  Annoying.  And snacking while cooking?  Can't do that either since it might mess up my blood sugar spike.  Then there's the overanalyzing of everything I am eating, since I am supposed to be eating "normally" BUT when I see a high glucose reading it makes me manage my carbs better for the rest of the day to make up for it.  Ugh.  I have a new respect for diabetics.  It's really tougher than it sounds.

Well, I'm done with week one of testing.  I may have to do another, I may be done, or I may have to continue to do it for the rest of the pregnancy.  I hope to find out tomorrow when I speak to the midwife (not *my* midwife, which makes it all the more frustrating.)  Under 20% of my numbers were "allowed" to be high.  Of course, I was right on the line- 21.4% of mine are high.  Well, 24% if you count the extra reading I did at 2 hours post-meal since the 1-hour reading was SO high.  A handful of others were iffy, if you ask me (but I'm no doc and every practice has different standards).  Needless to say, I'm nervous.

I want NOT to have GD, of course.  But I also think my numbers look questionable, and I want to err on the side of caution here.  GD is a really serious disease if uncontrolled, so I want to do what is absolutely in the best interest of the baby.  If managing my carbs and monitoring my sugar for the next two months will ensure a healthy baby- I'll do it.

We'll see what tomorrow brings....