30 weeks

Week 30. Wow...only 10 more weeks to go (11 weeks max since they'll be inducing me if the little guy hasn't arrived by November 14th--thank you Gestational Diabetes).

I can't say my 3rd trimester is going as swimmingly as my first two. After getting past the "virus" and getting normal blood sugar readings for a week I seem to have slipped back into some very high (and very sporadic) readings. I'm getting really burnt out on pricking my fingers and obsessing over every little bit of food I eat. I actually ended up losing 3.5 pounds this week so that brings my grand total of weight gain since my pregnancy to 10.5 pounds. While they warned us that women with GD will sometimes lose weight eating this way I can't help but feel that I'm also getting beat down and bored by food and food options. It's no longer fun or interesting to eat. It's more like a stressful waiting/guessing game--"will this screw up my blood sugar or not?" I fear that medication is the next step--I'll find out next week. Honestly though, at this point it might be for the better because playing this game is stressing me out.

Including my commute I usually work a 12 hour day. I'm beginning to think that this is starting to negatively impact my overall health too. This week I noticed that by 5:30 I was completely beat down and could no longer concentrate. By the time I left work I was shivering (in 85 degree heat), half way home I'd have to have the AC on because I was hot and then I 'd get home and could barely move for the rest of the evening. It's a tired so big and deep I have to literally convince myself to stand up 20 minutes before I actually do. After the 20 minute pep talk to get up I've been getting a mild fever (aound 101 degrees) which in turn jacks up my blood sugar readings so then I go to bed frustrated only to wake every hour or so all night long to go to the bathroom. When the morning comes I feel fine...until 5:30pm hits and then the vicious cycle starts all over again.

Aside from all that my lower back is constantly in pain. Unfortunately there's not much I can do for that--aside from pelvic stretches and Tylenol. I'm also looking into some prenatal massages. I keep telling the little man that perhaps he should find a new position. Although he seems dead set on this diagonal, head down thing....apparently the same way his Daddy was positioned in Grandma's belly.

Obviously something's got to change. My doctor is supposed to call me in the morning. We'll see what he says.