Month: September 2017

My baby shower was yesterday and I had a wonderful time. There are so many people who made it a great day from Candy planning it with Katki, Rachel taking photos, Katie putting many of our items in her van and making a special trip to get them to us and the guests who attended and people who have gifts though unable to attend. I’ll do a full recap at another time when I have photos back from Rachel, so this will be a preview of detail shots I took with my phone. Using baby’s technical due date of October 30th, I have 8 weeks to go as shown in this sign and sonogram pics, the middentwo of which we used copies of in our maternity shoot with Rachel last month.

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A little over a month ago I started trying to manage Gestational Diabetes through exercise, which my doctor said I was doing more than most pregnant women at already and diet. Though I tried my best to follow all the meal instructions and exercise even more by walking after meals, I couldn’t get the first blood glucose reading of the day, known as the fasting number, lower than 90. After a week Dr. G had my dietitian put me on Insulin. I was lucky in that my insurance covered the pen method, yet each pen was only good for two weeks regardless of how much was used. Still, for reasons that will become clear in a few moments,  each pen had a good deal of Insulin left over, these are my first three pens showing an increased amount of wasted Insulin in each one.

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I’d envisioned wearing a fitted white dress for the second part of my maternity shoot ever since we set a date for it. Our photographer, Rachel, had recommended Matt wear light colors, so he wore white, grey and the Panama hat he wore on our wedding day. For jewelry I wore an aquamarine heart necklace and sea inspired Pandora type charm bracelet, both presents from Matt for our first wedding anniversary.

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