About two weeks back her OBGYN found out that This Girl was glucose tolerant and she was sent home to monitor her blood levels twice weekly for two weeks. As blogged before, Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 passed with little fanfare, if with a lil confusion over her generally low glucose levels. Today was the [...]
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Pregnancy issues: Day 4 of monitoring
Posted in 3rd Trimester, gestational diabetes, kitchen adventures, Life in the Town House, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, tagged 3rd trimester, diet, food, gestational diabetes, meal planning, pregnancy, pregnancy diet on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
pregnancy issues: Day 3 of monitoring
Posted in 3rd Trimester, gestational diabetes, kitchen adventures, Life in the Town House, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, tagged diabetes, diet, food, gestational diabetes, pregnancy, pregnancy food on January 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This girl has been told to monitor her glucose level twice weekly these two weeks. The first two days passed with little incident. Day 1 was a little confusing with her levels generally being way lower than the normal boundaries. She didn’t know if it meant she was eating badly or needed more sugar in [...]
pregnancy issues: Day 2 of monitoring
Posted in 3rd Trimester, gestational diabetes, kitchen adventures, Life in the Town House, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, tagged 3rd trimester, diet, food, gestational diabetes, pregnancy on January 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For the first time in This Girl’s life she’s eating three square healthy meals. No real choice seeing how she’s got to find a system, no less to monitor and manage her gestational diabetes. All through the pregnancy she’s been eating, sometimes more often than others, relatively healthy and more regular than her non-pregnant days. [...]
contemplating food
Posted in 3rd Trimester, gestational diabetes, kitchen adventures, Life in the Town House, people she loves, pregnancy, pregnancy lessons, the boy, tagged calories, diet, fat, food, GI, glycemic index on January 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Since they discovered this girl had gestational diabetes The Boy and This Girl has spent a fair bit of time scrutinizing their eating habits and grocery lists. They’ve also done a fair bit of research on food, their glycemic index and learnt to design a glucose healthy diet- that still allows her to eat chocolate. [...]
Pregnancy Issues: Day 1 of monitoring
Posted in gestational diabetes, pregnancy, tagged 3rd trimester, gestational diabetes, glucose monitoring, pregnancy, pregnancy meal plan on January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today was This Girl’s first day of glucose monitoring and The Boy and her decided to make minimal changes to her daily meal routine to get a rough sense of where they are at and then adjust accordingly. Off the bat, however, they made a few changes: 1. Ease up on the Oreos (and other [...]
pregnancy issues: gestational diabetes
Posted in gestational diabetes, pregnancy, tagged 3rd trimester, gestational diabetes, GI, Glycemix index, meal planning, pregnancy, pregnancy meal planning on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Father is diabetic (his parents and two siblings are too) and that places this girl at risk for gestational diabetes. And true to her doctor’s fears, she didn’t do as great on the glucose test all pregnant women are made to take as they enter the third trimester. So, last monday they trooped off [...]
