I’m so sick I usually struggle with nausea in the first trimester, but I’ve been lucky enough to not suffer with actual vomiting in my previous pregnancies. Everything was fine this time… But something this weekend has changed! I keep
My first scan You pee on a pregnancy test stick and it says it’s positive and then that’s it. No one checks or does anything to check you’re actually pregnant until today. It’s all riding on this scan to see
Hypos in the night Since moving and settling in, my blood sugar levels have returned to be more stable, but I keep having the odd random nighttime hypo, hitting between 2 and 3am. Many ladies in my Facebook group say
Finally time to move It’s been a tough time with Gavin being away Mon – Fri working in Scotland and me practically being a single Mum looking after the boys on my own. We don’t have any friends or family
Needles…I HATE them! Regardless of what my team advocate, I choose to test my blood sugar levels at least 7 times a day. That’s fasting, 1 hour post breakfast, pre-lunch, 1 hour post lunch, pre-dinner, 1 hour post dinner and before
The sweet smell of insulin Many people laugh when I say I like the smell of insulin, but it’s true, I do! To me, insulin is the smell of pregnancy and is a happy thing. I get gestational diabetes in
First diabetes clinic appointment A midwife from the diabetes clinic has called to say that they will squeeze me into the usual Tuesday diabetes clinic at the hospital. She’s told me where to go, what time to attend and that the
Is it really a positive test?! I’m late for my period which is unusual as since having Finlay my periods have been so frequent, too frequent, which I put down to my endometriosis and PCOS (poly cystic ovarian syndrome). I