willyou I'm booked in to go in on Wed night but have to ring that evening to check there's still a bed available. So really not long now.
I can have pasta too, in smallish portions. I can also have baked potato if I load it with stuff eg cheese and tuna. I can't have porridge though.
ellie my readings tend to be around the 6s and 7s, although in the last couple of weeks I've been getting a few more 5s as I've got more used to managing it. My high readings were about 3-4 a week at the start but have reduced in frequency eg I only had 1 in the last week, and they r all been in the low 8s apart from one 11 (to this day I can't work out what caused it as it was the same sandwich that had given me 7s the previous day), and one 9 (too big a bowl of porridge in the morning).
i thought I was controlling well, which was why I couldn't help but get a little upset when the consultant at my last appointment suggested I wasn't, by saying that the point of him coming "all the way from" the other hospital (a max 10 min drive by the way) was to hold the clinic for women whose diabetes was well-controlled and that I needed to discuss it with the diabetic team. On another day though a diabetic nurse had said I'd been doing well as she said it could be harder for bigger taller women to manage their sugars.
I don't know about you but I have found that whilst the emphasis is quite rightly on maintaining the right numbers for the good of the baby, i do sometimes wish for more recognition by the diabetic team of how DIFFICULT it can be for us. Just knowing the importance of good control doesn't automatically mean that we can follow it. Avoiding sugar isn't just a case of not being greedy - we're being asked to do the opposite of what our body is craving us to give it. I did find the nurse to be helpful when I was really struggling and lost 5lb in a week but then I did have the evidence on the scales of how it wasn't working for me. I've also not had any diabetic professional talk about the morning insulin surge and how to beat it, even when I kept pointing out that breakfast was proving difficult; I was just told "yes, breakfast can be hard because there's a limited number of things that you can eat for it", even when I explained that I could eat (eg) porridge at other times of day and not at breakfast. I also don't know how much difference a couple of high readings make - someone (poss spotty) said that her midwife had seen women with readings of 20 and 30 who'd had no ill effects on their babies, but then in that case I don't know why everyone flies into a panic about me having 3 readings of 8.2. Nobody's ever really explained to me whether (eg) 1 bad reading causes a specific bad effect, or whether it's a sliding scale depending on the reading, or whether it's cumulative so you need a few to make a difference.