Dealing With the GD Crowd
Gestational Diabetes is a form of diabetes that only occurs during pregnancy. Having now experienced first hand the insulin resistance of pregnancy, I completely understand why it happens. I’m taking...
View ArticleIn A Funk
I know that I’ve written a number of times about how much I’m looking forward to this whole pregnancy thing being over, and how much I’m not enjoying the diabetes stress and pressure. I’ve already...
View ArticleFeeding Fears
Breastfeeding is important to me. The problem is, I think I may have allowed it to become too important to me, to the point that it’s already stressing me out before I even have a baby to feed. Much as...
View ArticleCall The Midwife!
Monday was a good day. Our first full day at home. We were visited, as is standard, by the midwife. I felt together enough to be charging around the house to make sure it looked as though I was really...
View ArticleTop Tips For A Diabetic Pregnancy
Plan – Going in to pregnancy with more than 3 months of folic acid behind me and an excellent A1c made the early weeks much less stressful for me than I think they may otherwise have been. Aside from...
View ArticleBorn, But Not Given Birth
There have been lots of struggles in these first weeks of parenthood. Breastfeeding, Nappies. Sleep. All the obvious contenders. But right now the thing that I’m still struggling with above all else is...
View ArticleA Blog Comment is Not Enough to Respond to Kirstie Allsopp
I ventured back on to Twitter for the first time in over a year last week. That very morning happened to be the morning that Kirstie Allsopp vented her spleen at the NCT via Twitter. Since it seems...
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Stress, And A Birthday
It’s been a stressful week. Ian has been under extreme stress at work. We’ve all been ill. And then, last Tuesday, at 14 months and twelve days old, Thomas decided that he no longer needs any daytime...
View ArticleDiabetes and My Son
I was going to entitle this post something like “The Fear That Diabetes Might Affect My Son”. But then I realised that although he doesn’t have it himself, diabetes has affected Thomas almost since the...
View ArticleTwo Years Ago
Two years ago today, I found out that I was pregnant. I didn’t know then, of course, that the end result would be Thomas. I had no clue about the little person he would become, the joy and challenges...
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