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Things are going better today! I actually haven't done much at all, just been laying around the house relaxing. I'll be going to the library in a little bit though. I'm trying to decide what to do about dinner...planning meals is always an effort now.

The GD situation isn't going very well. I met with a dietician this past Friday again. I have appointments every other week and the weeks I don't go in I fax my sugar levels to them. I can't describe how discouraging it was to receive a phone call from one of the dieticians last Monday going over every little thing I had eaten that made my sugar levels go up. Hearing about everything you ate in a negative way is no fun. That dietician's main conclusion - I can't eat any other carbs if I have any type of bread at a meal. That puts me at having 20 carbs max per meal (if I eat bread, buns, tortillas, etc). I'm supposed to have a minimum of 30 carbs per meal and my other dietician had told me to try to stay around the limit of 45 since I was losing weight. Great. And for those of you who say "then just don't eat any of that stuff," I'll just let you know that the diet plan recommendation I was given has some type of bread listed for every meal, it's one of the main ways to get carbs that are needed.

So last week I did pretty well the first part of the week, then the levels were back up. The dietician I met with thought that having high protein meals was helping the levels. She thinks if I up my protein intake at each meal then I can eat more than 20 carbs. She was concerned because I lost 3 pounds last week. Which now puts my total weight gain this pregnancy at 16 pounds. I need to eat more, but I can't because if I do my sugar levels go way up!! So she gave me some advice to try out, said to try to eat ice cream just before bed instead of earlier in the evening. However, the past few days have not gone well at all. My waking levels are higher than they've ever been. I was already eating protein at every meal, but now I'm trying to boost it by eating peanuts and cheese along with whatever else I'm eating. The dietician said that if my levels remain high even after following all of that advice that I may need to go on insulin. I'm really hoping to get it under control though.... It's so hard because my first instinct is not to eat as much at each meal/snack to keep my levels down, but I know I shouldn't be doing that because of the weight loss.


I haven't done any work on the nursery since last month. I'm waiting for after my shower to finish decorating, then I'll post pictures! We are going to install shelves in the closet, put up new closet doors, and we still need to put up the bedroom door as well (we took it off to paint). I also want to buy a wall decal to put over the crib. I want something with his initial or name on it. I also saw a cool mirror at Target that I'm thinking about putting over his dresser/changing table.

Our breastfeeding class was Thursday night. I'm so glad that we took it together! I already knew a lot of stuff from the class I took with my friend (5 years ago...wow, it doesn't seem like it was that long ago!), but I did learn several new things and it has definitely made me feel more confident about breastfeeding. I ordered a breast pump last week, I found a super good deal on it! The pump I wanted was $140, I got it for $82 with free shipping! I found it on THIS site already discounted, plus they were having a deal that you got even more off if you paid with PayPal.

I want the pump because I don't want to breastfeed in public (my own personal choice, I don't mind if other women do it, it's just ME) so I want to be able to have a bottle handy for when we go out. Plus, we are planning a couple of road trips the first few months after Evan is born. One to Arkansas...18 hours. So I want the option to give him a bottle for some feedings during the trip. I also think I'll be more likely to keep breastfeeding him the entire first year if I can have the option of giving him bottles at times.

Well that's it for now...remember, only encouraging comments are welcome about my situation!