Gestational diabetes

Gestational diabetes: “is a condition characterized by elevated blood sugar brought on by pregnancy… The condition affects the mother in late pregnancy - usually beginning sometime around weeks 20 through 24 - after the baby is formed… Gestational diabetes ends once the pregnancy has ended, but it increases the risk of the mother developing type 2 diabetes later in life.”

I am 0.1 away from being officially diagnosed with gestational diabetes.  I’m not impressed.  It’s mind boggling how much starch and sugars a person can consume in a day - I hadn’t really noticed it until I couldn’t eat these things.  Fruit juice from concentrate, a lot of cereals, breads (except for whole grains), pasta, rice (except for brown rice), etc. are now out of my diet.  I’m limited to water, milk, and unsweetened juices; limited amounts of fruit; only certain kinds of vegetables; meat; cheeses.  The good thing is I’m discovering how many specially made sugar free products there are out there - I’ve discovered sugar free chocolate ice cream (I swear this has saved my life - I love chocolate and to be forced to go completely without it was driving me crazy), and my husband even found sugar free cookies.

 I was borderline gestational diabetic with my first child, but I was not disciplined at all.  I didn’t even attempt to reduce my sugar/starch intake.  As a result, I got really sick - I retained a lot of water and was really, really tired.  I don’t want to go there again!  But I am noticing I don’t have as much energy which is hard for me to deal with.  But as my husband says, I’ll just have to suck it up and accept it.  Thank goodness I’ve got less than 2 months to go.

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Our 1st House

 We have bought a house!  We signed the papers on Monday to make it official.  Possession date is October 18; moving day is Saturday, October 21 (3 weeks before my due date). 

 Neat things about our house:  It’s got lots of space.  Almost 2200 square feet over 2 floors (main floor and basement).  The basement is full height (so my husband doesn’t have to duck his head - he’s 6ft 6inches ; and I can use my treadmill down there).  5 bedrooms plus other rooms that could be developed (enough space to have a bedroom for everyone, an office, toy room, and exercise room).  Large open floor plan living room/dining room.  Big windows.  9ft ceilings on main floor.  Heated veranda/porch with lots of large windows and french doors opening into the rest of the house. 2 bathrooms.  Side entrance opening onto basement and main floor (door separating basement from main floor)- we could develop the basement for my husband’s business so clients could meet with him and have a private entrance away from the rest of the house; we could develop a reception/den area and have my husband’s office in a separate room off to the side.  A long time ago, someone lived in the attic (there’s vinyl flooring and drywall up there) - we could develop this and use it as another room.

 When we first saw the house, my husband could see all the potential (and I could see ‘work’).  I am intimidated by the thought of renovations (I’ve never done them before) and I prefer to have everything done for me ahead of time so I can just move in.  But a friend got me thinking when she said, “now you can make the house how YOU want it”.  So I started dreaming (and my husband thinks he’s created a monster).  Of course, as usual, I don’t necessarily think of the simple things we could do.  When I found out about the attic, I started envisioning a den with skylights and then, hey, why not knock out the ceiling above the living room/dining room and have vaulted ceilings with skylights.  I have no idea how much time, labour, money this would take, but it can’t be too hard, right?  lol.  I am so naive.  For right now, we’ll just move in and prepare for a baby.  Then we’ll see where things take us.  My husband is really excited and I’m getting excited, too.  It’s a new adventure and another step in our lives together. 

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Might be buying a house…again

The house shopping saga continues.  Last time I posted, I said we were one step closer to buying a house.  That house deal fell through because our home inspection showed some possible issues with the foundation of the house.  We didn’t want to risk that, so we backed out of the deal.

 Today we put in an offer for a different house and it was accepted.  So if all conditions are met, we’ll have a house by the end of October.  This house is much larger than the one we were originally going to buy, but it also costs more.  It’s been a bit of a stretch for me because I am very conservative when it comes to money, but my husband and I see a lot of potential for development with the house whereas the previous one would have limited us.

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