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done and dusted. I swear my hands are gonna drop off. How do people do this for like their whole life. only 2 more times left today but I gotta say, my readings are all way below the limits and I feel like this couldn't be healthy cuz they were telling me I wasn't eating or drinking enough and I'm eating less than ever now because Ive been so put off food by this whole thing and then they tell you things you can't eat so then if I'm not sure if I should eat it or not I just leave it. x
 
Laura With gestational diabetes are you levels not supposed to be too high? So does that not mean you're doing well keeping them lower? If im wrong correct me hun. But if you're unsure give them a ring today about it all. Try not to let your anxiety about what not to eat put you off eating though. might he best to speak to someone and tell them how you feel so you can get proper reassurance about food xx

Also I don't know if this is helpful or not but my friend used to always warm her hands first and prick the side of her fingers instead of right in the middle because it's not as sore and easier to get blood out from the side. I had to do it for about 3 weeks for her when we were 15. Midwife did my blood sugar yesterday and did the side of my finger instead of the middle too so must really be true. I hope it gets easier for you hun
 
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Aww Laura, I don't think I could manage it either. I've got a bit of a phobia of needles too. You're doing really well! But yeah, if you're worried about the food part then ask to speak to someone else again.

Ahh, my feet and ankles were so swollen yesterday. Hubby was like, right I need to go to the garage where the car is to pick up a laptop I've left in the boot, do you want to go for a walk? I thought yeah sure. We ended up going home a different way and we're still not that familiar with the new area where we live so ended up in the hilliest part of town and walking for miles haha! By the time we got home I was so hot and my feet were huge.

My whiplash is worse today but I guess that's to be expected. Despite being reassured by about three different doctors that the baby's fine I'm still super paranoid about her movement and if she doesn't move for a bit.
 
Feel like moaning! (not unusual for me I know)
But I'm so fucked off with the fact that I only ever see anyone if I go to them. Nobody seems to care less about ever visiting me. Now I'm pregnant I have people who don't even say 2 words to me! I'm so bored of sitting in all the time on my own, but my SPD is so painful and I'm so exhausted that I just don't have the energy to go out and visit people anymore. Which means nobody fucking visits me.

It's going to really piss me off (and I know it will happen) that when baby is born, in his first week of life a million people will come over and act like they give a shit. Then we'll never see anyone again!


Anyway gonna end this rant on a positive note, with a little bump pic, not posted one on here for a while!

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Urgh I'm awake. Have been since 5 and wish I wasn't haha oh has made himself bacon and left the smell wafting through the house, I really fancy some now but don't want to wake DD up yet

Malagueta whiplash is definitely one of those things that takes a few days to come out, can't really offer any advice other then try and rest

Lovely bump pic JemRose! Have you invites your friends round to come and spend time with you? I know some people end up feeling like "why should it always be me that asks" but if you want to see people let them know. They might be trying to let you rest when they know you've got bad pgp and might not want to intrude at your home

We have a christening to go to today, looking forward to it as there will be lots of family and kids there but can't really be bother with the 45mins drive each way. Hope you've all been having a nice weekend
 
Thanks Shep but the truth is I don't really have any friends to invite over to see me x
 
Shanivy said:
Laura With gestational diabetes are you levels not supposed to be too high? So does that not mean you're doing well keeping them lower? If im wrong correct me hun. But if you're unsure give them a ring today about it all. Try not to let your anxiety about what not to eat put you off eating though. might he best to speak to someone and tell them how you feel so you can get proper reassurance about food xx

Also I don't know if this is helpful or not but my friend used to always warm her hands first and prick the side of her fingers instead of right in the middle because it's not as sore and easier to get blood out from the side. I had to do it for about 3 weeks for her when we were 15. Midwife did my blood sugar yesterday and did the side of my finger instead of the middle too so must really be true. I hope it gets easier for you hun
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Yeah you're right Shan- GD is when your blood sugar level is high but that's kinda my point. They're all way lower than the limit cut offs she told me. Before eating is a max of 5.3, mine are all like 3.2-3.8 at the highest and then after eating the limit is 7.8 and mine are all either 5 or even 6 at the highest when I had a freaking mcds yesterday cuz I just had to have something junky haha. I had switched to brown bread cuz they told me to but I hate it and have to literally just shove it in my face and chew it down fast to get rid of it so then when I noticed the readings were super low I just went back to my normal bread to see what happened and they're still totally fine. I've been going back to what I normally eat one thing at a time and my levels are still all fine.

I just don't know how they can say I have GD and to make me do all this when all my readings are all way below the cut off levels that they want me to "try get the levels below"...they're already below it?! I'm going to mention it at the next appointment and just do it until then so I can show them that all my readings are fine and maybe they'll let me stop but I'm not holding my breath. I feel like its just causing unnecessary stress which isn't good for me or the baby :(

I prick at the sides of my fingers too but thanks for any advice that might make it easier haha xx
 
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JemRose said:
Feel like moaning! (not unusual for me I know)
But I'm so fucked off with the fact that I only ever see anyone if I go to them. Nobody seems to care less about ever visiting me. Now I'm pregnant I have people who don't even say 2 words to me! I'm so bored of sitting in all the time on my own, but my SPD is so painful and I'm so exhausted that I just don't have the energy to go out and visit people anymore. Which means nobody fucking visits me.

It's going to really piss me off (and I know it will happen) that when baby is born, in his first week of life a million people will come over and act like they give a shit. Then we'll never see anyone again!


Anyway gonna end this rant on a positive note, with a little bump pic, not posted one on here for a while!

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I totally get that Jem- I wish we all lived closer I'd very much be up for some company and would definitely make the effort and not leave it all to the other person, I hate that. I moved from Edinburgh to India and now back to my home town in Northern Ireland and it's been about 8 years since I was living here properly. I'd nip back for an odd weekend and see family and close family friends but other than that all of my friends from here have scattered all over the place like England, Wales or even further abroad.

I've also not really met many new people since I've been back, no one in jobs I've had has seemed up for any kind of relationship outside work and the one close friend I have made through uni, who I speak to daily via whatsapp or we phone sometimes, lives a couple of hours away and already has a hectic busy life and 2 kids so I never see her anymore. I've deferred uni until October (she deferred too) so our study dates together where we drive and meet halfway are no longer happening. We keep saying we will arrange a meal or dinner date but it just keeps falling through each time for some reason or other.

I feel like I spend my whole life sitting around by myself. I really was not coping with my job and quit and for a while it was a great relief, and I still know I couldn't cope with it, but at the same time I hate myself for it cuz I think what a waste of space I am right now, I have no work, I'm not even being useful to earn money, no uni until October, pretty much no friends...just sitting for hours and hours by myself, half the time lately I've been struggling to even see the point of getting out of bed...If I leave my room I will have to deal with my mum complaining about everything and I haven't the mental energy for it so I hide in my room like a teenager...then I just watch the clock until my husband comes home from work. He worked from 8am until 11pm yesterday and as dramatic as it sounds I didn't even know how I was going to manage the long lonely boring hours.

I'm trying my best to try to be as productive as possible each day to feel like I even achieved the smallest thing as I've noticed I've started to struggle to even leave the house and its not healthy to be shut up in four walls alone all the time.

Sorry for the negativity for the post xx
 
Morning all. Feeling a lot better today thank god. Whatever I have is turning into a sinus infection but I can deal with that. First night of no vomiting etc im so relieved. Tablets must be working

Jem lovely bump pic hun! Being a new mum can be very isolating. Do you think maybe it may be worth signing up to some mum to be classes or Facebook group in your area, so you to make new friends with women due babies the same time as you. Then we baby is here you'll have people to go out with? Sometimes you do lose friends once you have a baby and nobody else has them. I hope you feel better hun xx

Laura that's so strange! When I had my test done I was 6 after the drink I think and they said I shouldn't have even made the criteria for the test. I mean it's good youre levels are not sky high and all. But seems like they're very well controlled at the least, for you to be torturing youself over food. Definitely speak to someone as soon as you can. You're doing so well though, with a needle fear you should be proud of yourself! Also I wasn't trying to sound like a know it all, I know a little about type 1 from learning as my best friend learned when we were kids, but only a little. Xx

Mala I'm sure it's so normal to feel that much anxiety about baby after experiencing that, even though yoi know she's okay. I hope you're feeling better today, not worse xx

Shep did you get your bacon in the end haha xx
 
LuckyLaura said:
JemRose said:
Feel like moaning! (not unusual for me I know)
But I'm so fucked off with the fact that I only ever see anyone if I go to them. Nobody seems to care less about ever visiting me. Now I'm pregnant I have people who don't even say 2 words to me! I'm so bored of sitting in all the time on my own, but my SPD is so painful and I'm so exhausted that I just don't have the energy to go out and visit people anymore. Which means nobody fucking visits me.

It's going to really piss me off (and I know it will happen) that when baby is born, in his first week of life a million people will come over and act like they give a shit. Then we'll never see anyone again!


Anyway gonna end this rant on a positive note, with a little bump pic, not posted one on here for a while!

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I totally get that Jem- I wish we all lived closer I'd very much be up for some company and would definitely make the effort and not leave it all to the other person, I hate that. I moved from Edinburgh to India and now back to my home town in Northern Ireland and it's been about 8 years since I was living here properly. I'd nip back for an odd weekend and see family and close family friends but other than that all of my friends from here have scattered all over the place like England, Wales or even further abroad.

I've also not really met many new people since I've been back, no one in jobs I've had has seemed up for any kind of relationship outside work and the one close friend I have made through uni, who I speak to daily via whatsapp or we phone sometimes, lives a couple of hours away and already has a hectic busy life and 2 kids so I never see her anymore. I've deferred uni until October (she deferred too) so our study dates together where we drive and meet halfway are no longer happening. We keep saying we will arrange a meal or dinner date but it just keeps falling through each time for some reason or other.

I feel like I spend my whole life sitting around by myself. I really was not coping with my job and quit and for a while it was a great relief, and I still know I couldn't cope with it, but at the same time I hate myself for it cuz I think what a waste of space I am right now, I have no work, I'm not even being useful to earn money, no uni until October, pretty much no friends...just sitting for hours and hours by myself, half the time lately I've been struggling to even see the point of getting out of bed...If I leave my room I will have to deal with my mum complaining about everything and I haven't the mental energy for it so I hide in my room like a teenager...then I just watch the clock until my husband comes home from work. He worked from 8am until 11pm yesterday and as dramatic as it sounds I didn't even know how I was going to manage the long lonely boring hours.

I'm trying my best to try to be as productive as possible each day to feel like I even achieved the smallest thing as I've noticed I've started to struggle to even leave the house and its not healthy to be shut up in four walls alone all the time.

Sorry for the negativity for the post xx
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We all do negative no worries hun

I quit my job last year before Christmas. And while sometimes I regret it too, for the money and the just "getting out of the house and achieving something" aspect. I know I couldn't have coped with how constantly ill I've been. They'd never of kept me on. Don't feel bad about leaving your job. What's done is done.

Same as I said to Jem, it would be so worth finding some mum to be fb groups etc near you. Or try mums advice Facebook groups etc and ask who's in your area. People always respond because so many people feel exactly the same, and then having a new baby can be so isolating. It really does help in the early days just being able to get out of the house for a coffee and a moan with someone in the same boat as you xx
 
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Shanivy said:
Morning all. Feeling a lot better today thank god. Whatever I have is turning into a sinus infection but I can deal with that. First night of no vomiting etc im so relieved. Tablets must be working

Jem lovely bump pic hun! Being a new mum can be very isolating. Do you think maybe it may be worth signing up to some mum to be classes or Facebook group in your area, so you to make new friends with women due babies the same time as you. Then we baby is here you'll have people to go out with? Sometimes you do lose friends once you have a baby and nobody else has them. I hope you feel better hun xx

Laura that's so strange! When I had my test done I was 6 after the drink I think and they said I shouldn't have even made the criteria for the test. I mean it's good youre levels are not sky high and all. But seems like they're very well controlled at the least, for you to be torturing youself over food. Definitely speak to someone as soon as you can. You're doing so well though, with a needle fear you should be proud of yourself! Also I wasn't trying to sound like a know it all, I know a little about type 1 from learning as my best friend learned when we were kids, but only a little. Xx

Mala I'm sure it's so normal to feel that much anxiety about baby after experiencing that, even though yoi know she's okay. I hope you're feeling better today, not worse xx

Shep did you get your bacon in the end haha xx
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Glad you are feeling better and you didn't need readmitted in the end for IV fluids. That must have been so scary though, and I couldn't deal with an IV drip haha I'd have of course had to man up and deal with it but ahhh hahaha

I think it's strange too :( 6 is a great number for after the drink. I believe for the first blood test after the drink they want it to be below 10 so that's well under. Mine was under for that one too- can't remember the exact number cuz I dismissed it cuz it was fine haha. It was the first one that they take when you arrive after fasting that got me, they wanted 5.2 or under and mine was 5.3 :( so on that alone even tho the other two tests were fine they've decided I have GD. No no not at all, I didn;t think you sounded know it all- honestly any advice I will take it haha I think it's difficult in text also I think Im losing social skills so Im sorry if I came across rude or anything.

I'm definitely going to take your advice, if I am feeling isolated now then it'll probably be worse after the baby is born, also the fact that 101 people will crawl out of the woodworks for a nosey at the baby then disappear will make me feel it much more too xx
 
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LuckyLaura said:
Glad you are feeling better and you didn't need readmitted in the end for IV fluids. That must have been so scary though, and I couldn't deal with an IV drip haha I'd have of course had to man up and deal with it but ahhh hahaha

I think it's strange too :( 6 is a great number for after the drink. I believe for the first blood test after the drink they want it to be below 10 so that's well under. Mine was under for that one too- can't remember the exact number cuz I dismissed it cuz it was fine haha. It was the first one that they take when you arrive after fasting that got me, they wanted 5.2 or under and mine was 5.3 :( so on that alone even tho the other two tests were fine they've decided I have GD. No no not at all, I didn;t think you sounded know it all- honestly any advice I will take it haha I think it's difficult in text also I think Im losing social skills so Im sorry if I came across rude or anything.

I'm definitely going to take your advice, if I am feeling isolated now then it'll probably be worse after the baby is born, also the fact that 101 people will crawl out of the woodworks for a nosey at the baby then disappear will make me feel it much more too xx
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Oh I didn't think you sounded rude at all hun. Sometimes when you have something and somebody pops up and goes " oh yeah my friend had that so do this/that" it's like fuck off? Lol. Just making sure I didn't sound like a dick haha.

It definitely happened to me when Ivy was born. I was 21 and all our friends Id made since moving to Dundee were under 25. They all flocked to see her but a month later were like are you going out Saturday night etc and I was done with all that. So it all fizzled out really. I hated my baby club but dragged myself there just to try and make new friend with kids who could understand. If it wasn't for my SIL who has two children I'd have went mad. Being a new mum is amazing but sometimes you just need someone who understands about latching or New mum obsessions and that. As to the diabetes I'd actually query it, seems like you just barely made it in for goodness sake! Surely you can't be held to the same strictness as someone way higher than you xx
 
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Laura maybe you should move to the south haha, I think we would be great friends!!

Thanks shan I'll have a look into baby groups. I'm so shy though that I don't think much people have the patience to invest time in me until I'm comfortable around them!

I do hear that things get much lonelier when baby is here which I'm dreading. I'm dreading maternity leave anyway as I think it will drag and be so lonely waiting for baby to come!
 
Shanivy said:
LuckyLaura said:
Glad you are feeling better and you didn't need readmitted in the end for IV fluids. That must have been so scary though, and I couldn't deal with an IV drip haha I'd have of course had to man up and deal with it but ahhh hahaha

I think it's strange too :( 6 is a great number for after the drink. I believe for the first blood test after the drink they want it to be below 10 so that's well under. Mine was under for that one too- can't remember the exact number cuz I dismissed it cuz it was fine haha. It was the first one that they take when you arrive after fasting that got me, they wanted 5.2 or under and mine was 5.3 :( so on that alone even tho the other two tests were fine they've decided I have GD. No no not at all, I didn;t think you sounded know it all- honestly any advice I will take it haha I think it's difficult in text also I think Im losing social skills so Im sorry if I came across rude or anything.

I'm definitely going to take your advice, if I am feeling isolated now then it'll probably be worse after the baby is born, also the fact that 101 people will crawl out of the woodworks for a nosey at the baby then disappear will make me feel it much more too xx
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Oh I didn't think you sounded rude at all hun. Sometimes when you have something and somebody pops up and goes " oh yeah my friend had that so do this/that" it's like fuck off? Lol. Just making sure I didn't sound like a dick haha.

It definitely happened to me when Ivy was born. I was 21 and all our friends Id made since moving to Dundee were under 25. They all flocked to see her but a month later were like are you going out Saturday night etc and I was done with all that. So it all fizzled out really. I hated my baby club but dragged myself there just to try and make new friend with kids who could understand. If it wasn't for my SIL who has two children I'd have went mad. Being a new mum is amazing but sometimes you just need someone who understands about latching or New mum obsessions and that. As to the diabetes I'd actually query it, seems like you just barely made it in for goodness sake! Surely you can't be held to the same strictness as someone way higher than you xx
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hahaha if you ever sound like that, Ill promise Ill tell you to fuck off jkjk but no honestly I don't mind. I'm aware of how inexperienced I am and clueless and I probably should be reading up on things like mad but I kinda already feel like I will follow my instincts. I don't want to go the other way and bombard myself with information and stress out.

My husband is really good with kids too and basically knows everything from taking a very active role in the first 1.5 yrs of our nieces life too so I know I've a good support system with him. At least I don't have any friends to lose hahahah sorry, bad sense of humour. that must have been really tough on you. I'm not even sure where to start to find a baby club, tried searching fb and theres a buying/selling page that I'm already on but they don't chat on there but not much else. Prob is its also a small town so maybe there aren't many xx
 
Laura haha thanks I'm glad you would. I think whichever way you choose to handle your gd is the best way for you hun, so don't stress. And it's great you do have a good support with OH for the baby, it sounds like he'll be a wonderful dad. Mums advice private chat on Facebook is a good one. I used to see people asking for local mums all the time and always got responses. I don't use Facebook really now, but I'm sure it's still the same. I actually met a girl here off of that xx

Jem shyness can be hard hun. I'm not shy but sometimes my anxiety can creep up and I need to really force myself to be social. But there's always going to be people just like you at those groups though. When does your maternity start? Xx

I'm not trying to push either of you into anything though, just an idea and an option.
 
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JemRose said:
Laura maybe you should move to the south haha, I think we would be great friends!!

Thanks shan I'll have a look into baby groups. I'm so shy though that I don't think much people have the patience to invest time in me until I'm comfortable around them!

I do hear that things get much lonelier when baby is here which I'm dreading. I'm dreading maternity leave anyway as I think it will drag and be so lonely waiting for baby to come!
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I just moved, where are you hahah jkjk xx
 
Shanivy said:
Laura haha thanks I'm glad you would. I think whichever way you choose to handle your gd is the best way for you hun, so don't stress. And it's great you do have a good support with OH for the baby, it sounds like he'll be a wonderful dad. Mums advice private chat on Facebook is a good one. I used to see people asking for local mums all the time and always got responses. I don't use Facebook really now, but I'm sure it's still the same. I actually met a girl here off of that xx

Jem shyness can be hard hun. I'm not shy but sometimes my anxiety can creep up and I need to really force myself to be social. But there's always going to be people just like you at those groups though. When does your maternity start? Xx

I'm not trying to push either of you into anything though, just an idea and an option.
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Thanks you've actually been super helpful to make me kick my butt into some action instead of just sitting lonely and moaning, Ive just applied to join the mums group on fb. I also did a google of mum and baby groups in my area but theyre all mum and tots ...im sure theyll welcome littler ones right? haha xx
 
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