I think all the mothers in the world should be like me? From the two bars on the pregnancy test stick, ecstasy and tension and anxiety coexist. After all, it's my first pregnancy, so I'm extra cautious.
I bought all kinds of things that I found useful at the first time, carefully studied baby products, and excitedly bought radiation protection clothes. The key words of daily search are "can I eat" and "is it good for the fetus", and I also bought an exquisite notebook to record the baby's growth bit by bit and my various feelings.
I thought I had everything under control. I thought everything was arranged! I didn't expect what I thought was completely subverted. A hundred secrets and one sparse, I actually ignored the existence of the high-risk item "blood sugar"!
In the words of Dr. Zhang, who was later in charge of "monitoring" my nutrition department, it was "your own high blood sugar". This is absolutely correct. Looking back at the original lack of restraint, I really regret it. Now the baby is two and a half years old, and the experience of fighting gestational diabetes is still vivid. I still have a lingering fear in retrospect. Today, I use my mother's platform to show my opinion, and remind expectant mothers through my experience that controlling sugar during pregnancy is not a trivial matter, otherwise the consequences for mother and baby will be very serious!
As a star who only eats but doesn't get fat, to be honest, I usually hate it ~ After all, I never thought that the word "diabetes" would intersect with my life, so I naturally didn't take it seriously during pregnancy.
At the beginning of pregnancy, listening to friends say that eating more grapes will make your baby's eyes bright; Eat more bird's nest, the baby will be very white and smart; Eating more blueberries is good for the baby's development ... so, in line with the principle that it is better to miss it than to be ineffective, accept it all.
From then on, every day's life is to supplement all kinds of nutrition, such as apples, blueberries, grapes, rock candy bird's nest … every day as a task to "stuff" the baby in the womb, thinking that I want to create the best conditions for the baby! However, it ignores an objective fact ... extremes meet, too much goes too far.
Before I knew it, I didn't care at all. I thought it was just an ordinary birth check! That morning, I felt the air was particularly fresh and I was in a particularly good mood. I'm happy for the upcoming Eleventh Holiday. I'm so excited that I can finally do four dimensions. I even had the idea that the second trimester was really beautiful in my mind.
However, as soon as the results of Tang sieve came out, I was dumbfounded directly! The doctor detained me and added me to the nutrition department that day. My checklist, registration form, and portfolio cover are all stamped: "gestational diabetes, high risk!" " This stamp is like a brand, and it won't go away.
In this way, I entered the nutrition department. First of all, I took a half-day tutorial. The doctor's first sentence was: "expectant mothers, all of you here are pregnant women with diabetes."
What? Did I hear you right? I am lucky to think that my blood sugar is only slightly higher two hours after meals. Is it defined as gestational diabetes? Isn't it a "misdiagnosis" or an occasional abnormal fluctuation? Instantly dumbfounded, want to cry without tears.
Next, the doctor patiently explained to us what gestational diabetes is, the possible consequences, how to eat and exercise in the following days, how to monitor blood sugar and control weight and so on.
Here are a few tips for pregnant mothers:
1, diet control is the key. During pregnancy, the diet should be balanced and light, eat less and eat more meals, control the sweetness and staple food, and don't overdo the fruit.
It is also important to control your weight. For pregnant mothers with normal weight before pregnancy, the appropriate weight gain during the whole pregnancy is about 12.5kg, and it is 0.36~0.45kg per week in the second and third trimesters.
3. Really appropriate exercise: Pregnant mothers should have low-intensity activities for at least 30 minutes every day, and it is best to have 1 ~ 2 hours of outdoor activities such as walking and gymnastics. Yoga and swimming during pregnancy are also good choices.
4. Under normal circumstances, pregnant women with gestational diabetes can give birth naturally, but when macrosomia, placental dysfunction and abnormal fetal position are combined, cesarean section is needed for the safety of pregnant mother and fetus.
5. No matter what mode of delivery, after the placenta is discharged, the anti-insulin substances in the new mother's body will decrease rapidly, and only a few patients still need insulin treatment.
6. Once you have a history of gestational diabetes, you will get sick again every time you are pregnant.
By this time, I really understand that sugar control is so important to pregnant women and even everyone. Unfortunately, it is too late. Due to the lack of vigilance in this respect, I became a "sugar mom". From then on, I had to start to fight gestational diabetes.
Sugar control became the most important keyword in my late pregnancy. In the first week of every month, blood sugar was measured by sticking fingers for 7 consecutive days. I was afraid of pain, so I bought the most expensive blood glucose meter, thinking that it would not hurt so much if I tied it up ... it was really funny and sad.
Next, it is the day when needles are inserted every day. Four stitches in your finger every day will soon become a "hornet's nest". To tell the truth, I am a pregnant woman with mild illness. Many pregnant mothers with high blood sugar levels are directly hospitalized for insulin at 6 am.
They are strict about their diet, and the next few months are basically light soup. At this time, I really came from the heart: it is not easy to get pregnant, and it is really great to be a mother.
At first, I was afraid to operate the blood glucose meter myself. My husband made it for me. Even at noon, he came back to give me an injection and then went back to the company. In this way, after more than half a month, I felt from my heart that he was so hard, so I decided to operate it myself. From then on, my husband came home at noon every day to give me an injection.
The nutritionist gave each "sugar mom" a nutrition intake table, which clearly defined each person's daily food intake, including: no reduction in nutrition, few grams, few meals, and regular quantification.
Before I developed gestational diabetes, I was a staple food control+meat eater, so diet control was undoubtedly painful for me. I can only eat two pieces of meat every meal, the size of a fist. At the same time, I can't eat cake and drink low-fat milk ... it's simply painful for a big man with a height of 178!
But every sugar mom still insists on doing it. After all, faith is supporting sugar moms: if you want your baby to be healthy and safe, you can't leave the sequelae of lifelong diabetes!
In the following days, I took a food scale with me and weighed the food at any time. Walk for half an hour after meals every day, add coarse grain biscuits and tomatoes and cucumbers every day, and fill in the blood sugar test form and meal log regularly every day.
This form is called a meal log, which is your "homework" when you report to the nutritionist regularly. If you eat unreasonably or your blood sugar seriously exceeds the standard, you should be prepared to be scolded by the doctor.
Because I did well, I was hardly scolded by the doctor. Every time I go to report for duty, although my blood sugar fluctuates occasionally, it is not a big problem. As I said before, the doctor who said that I "work" is actually very nice, and every pregnant woman likes her very much. However, I can't help myself. Once I secretly ate a yogurt cake roll, and my blood sugar soared to 8.5 that night!
As a result, you can guess ... she didn't scold me. She talked to me seriously about the seriousness of the problem for 20 minutes, but felt useless, so she called my husband in for an education.
Since then, I have never dared to touch these "excessive" foods. It is also under her supervision and guidance that my blood sugar control has remained relatively stable. Every time the B-ultrasound shows that the baby is developing normally, there is no such bad situation as being too big.
I persisted in this way until I entered the 36th week. The doctor said to me, "I'll never see you again!" " I know I finally graduated from her! In the next few weeks, without the strict supervision of the doctor, I have been eating and exercising regularly until delivery, and the doctor measured that glycosylated hemoglobin was only 5.3! .
It's finally the due date. But the baby hasn't moved for 40 weeks. Because of diabetes, it is risky for the fetus to soak in "sugar water" for too long, so the doctor decided to have a caesarean section. Everything went well during the operation. The baby born is 6.5 kg, and the weight is just right, not too big.
But it is not without sequelae! Because my blood sugar is high, my son was born with hypoglycemia! Fortunately, the critical value is 2. 1, which is not a big problem. I was sent to the neonatology department for insurance reasons.
In other words, the baby was pushed away after staying with me for less than twenty minutes, and the joy of childbirth was quickly replaced by anxiety. After a night of observation, the baby was "discharged" from the hospital early the next morning and returned to his parents!
My poor baby is particularly insecure because he was transferred to the neonatal department just after birth. When she comes back to us, she must hold her and cry as soon as she puts it down! It was not until he was discharged from the hospital and put in a crib at home that he finally slept well! Maybe he knows this is his home, which will give him a sense of security. ...
Postscript: After the second month, my blood sugar gradually returned to normal. But the "sequela" is that eating rice and pasta will make you feel guilty, and every bite will be full of vigilance. Fruits, sugar, cakes and so on are no longer as unscrupulous as before.
With this lesson, I will try my best to protect myself, protect my children, make my lifestyle healthier and healthier, and now I will start to walk into the gym.
After all, I am really afraid that diabetes will come to me one day, because after gestational diabetes, there is a 60% chance that it will become lifelong diabetes. I still hope that I am the other 40% and hope to welcome the future with health as my body.