Between these slowly rotating into the laundry cycle as we get ready for the baby: and the fact that my baby bump has popped overnight: I’m feeling pretty pregnant these days. That is all. 🙂 (Light posts this week, what with the holidays and the fact that I’m headed to my mom’s to make gingerbread cookies all day today. Photos…
Last Friday, Chris and I (and BSparl) were at Joslin all day long. ALL DAY. But that’s what’s required with type 1 diabetes and pregnancy, so I wanted to recap these appointment for posterity, and for anyone else who is curious about what it takes to manage this whole party. It’s a long post, but with five different appointments to cover, I want…
Dear Baby, Daddy and I are at the halfway point in our journey to meeting you, and I’ll admit – I’m a little surprised at how quickly this is happening. I feel like I was just in Spain, hoping you were there with us, and then just at Joslin, wondering if they were going to tell us you were indeed hidden…
It’s been a long, wonderful day at Joslin, and I have a lot to say, but for now, Chris and I are going to decorate our Christmas tree, drink sugar-free hot chocolate with marshmallows, and grin about our daughter, who is due on May 4th. A little baby girl. I love her so much already. I couldn’t feel happier right…
“Is it too early to be feeling the baby moving?” I asked my pregnant best friend. “What are you, fifteen weeks along? No, it’s not too early. Does it feel like fluttering, or butterfly wings?” I remember when the NBF was at my house over the summer, about five months along in her own pregnancy, and she was convinced she had felt…
BSparl is getting bigger. (And so am I.) I spent a lot of time planning this pregnancy, starting from back in 2003 when I decided to go on an insulin pump. And even though preparation didn’t begin in earnest until Chris and I were married, having a child has always been something I’ve wanted with my whole heart. So I read up on…
Tomorrow is World Diabetes Day. While my best friend’s baby shower is this weekend and I’ll be busy preparing for and helping with that event, I know there are lots of events taking place to celebrate the big, blue circle (including the Big Blue Test … more on that later). But today is just another day in diabetes management, and it happens to…
The second trimester (not semester, as I keep mistakenly saying) is in full swing. According to the baby books I am reading daily, it’s time to start putting on 1/2 a pound to a pound a week – oh what a weird concept!!! For those of you who have been reading me for a few years, you know I work hard…
Over the weekend, I found myself on a plane again. Yes, another xanax-free trip at 33,000 feet, this time heading to Fort Lauderdale, FL for the Diabetes 2.0 conference, put on by the Diabetes Research Institute. Three quick things: First, never watch the Disney movie “Up” while on a plane and pregnant. I found myself sniffling and crying to the opening…
The first time we saw him (or her), it was at the emergency room back in Connecticut. We were only seven weeks into the pregnancy and barely had caught our breath from finding out when the bleeding happened and I panicked. We spent five hours in the emergency room, poked and prodded and with an IV line at the ready,…
For a few weeks, I had a tough run with the Dexcom. Out of the five sensors I’d used in the last three weeks, three of them had gone kaput on me. And by “kaput,” I mean that I’d put in a new sensor after Las Vegas and it instantly gave me “???” instead of blood sugar results. I’ve seen the triple question…
During my endocrinologist appointment last week, I brought up that itchy, scratchy Lovenox rash to my OB/GYN, Dr. T. And she wasn’t comfortable with how my body reacted. “That rash is from two weeks ago? How does it feel now?” “Less itchy, that’s for sure. But it got all hivey and wouldn’t relax, not for about a week. It itched like…
Last week, I toddled my pregnant self up to the Joslin Clinic for my endocrinologist appointment and an ultrasound with my OB/Gyn. And as excited as I was about the ultrasound and the opportunity for Chris and I to see our baby kicking around in there (more on that later), I was just as excited about the H1N1 vaccine. I know. I…
Sorry for the late post, but we were meeting a friend today for lunch. A new friend. A little friend. Internet, meet BSparl. We won’t find out if it’s a boy or a girl until late November, but BSparl is getting big and growing along at a healthy and safe pace. More later, but now it’s time to celebrate the Hallween…
The flight to Las Vegas from Boston is a long one – six hours on the way there and five on the way back. I talked with my doctors before taking the flight, and being pregnant, I’m dealing with an increased threat of deep vein thrombosis. The Factor V Leiden gene in my body is also a red flag, so these longs flights…
Do you know how hard it was to not tell you guys I am pregnant? Sitting on that information for three months was one of the most challenging things I’ve ever done. There were SO MANY questions I wanted to ask, and so many stories I wanted to share, but I knew it was best to keep my mouth shut until…