I have been working on this post for a while ... somehow it is just difficult. Anyway this pregnancy is different in many ways ... for one it started different. My own pregnancies have always been very planned and this was so the complete opposite of planning. With Magnus we got pregnant right away when we wanted to start our family and with Olivia we pretty much found ourselves pregnant as soon as we stopped preventing pregnancy. Sebastian took a little while longer but he was hoped and wished for and came along with perfect timing. For both my surrogate pregnancies, planning is mapped out in the knitty gritty details and very little was left unmanaged in achieving pregnancy.
This time ... well ... life happens and pregnancy was not planned. Yet I find myself blessed and happy and totally overwhelmed with all the emotions that continually wash over me as I find myself daydreaming about baby and all the sweetness to come.
Another thing that is very different is my age! I have rounded the magic number where I am now considered of Advanced Maternal Age......GASP!!!!! I like "mature" better but I digress .... bring on the geriatric pregnancy comments ... however please note that the senior discount does NOT apply!!!
With maturity comes a bit more testing and for me that included a hemoglobin A1c test which looks at blood sugar levels in the previous 3 months. Normal levels is anything below 5.6 .. mine was 5.7 :-( Enough to earn the diagnosis of gestational diabetes and the luck of poking my finger 4 times per day to do daily blood glucose testing. I was not so happy! The good news however is that my daily levels are all in the normal parameters and I am down to testing my blood glucose in the last 3 days leading up to each prenatal appointment. Hopefully my numbers will continue to look good and no interventions is needed.
I personally feel that other factors has contributed to my high blood glucose levels. At the time of the test, the 3 months look back period would go back to second week of November. So not only did that period include both Thanksgiving and Christmas goodies, it was also a period with some extreme personal stress going on and that impact blood glucose levels as well. Anyway now that I have a glucometer, there are days that I track my blood sugar to see how I respond to various foods in response to my natural curiosity on who the human body works!
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