Bagels and Gritz

So I mentioned in my last post that since becoming pregnant, I've had lower and lower insulin needs.  To be a little more specific, I actually found that from weeks 4-6 my insulin needs went up slightly, and then around the end of week six they started dropping.  At week 10 and 11 I noticed a slight plateau, and then in week 12 they started plummeting again.  When I say they have been dropping I mean DROPPING.  As in every day my nurse practitioner and I lower the basal rates, and a little less often, the carb ratios and sensitivity factors.  And I'm still seeing low lows on the meter.

Pregnancy also - as I suppose it does for most women - completely changed my eating habits.  The nausea made it difficult to eat anything other than carbs.  For a couple weeks there all I could eat were bagels and gritz.  It got to the point where my poor husband was starting to worry.  Not knowing the extent of my emotionally fragility, he suggested we brainstorm some healthy meals that I might be able to stomach.  As I listened to him list some of his food ideas I suddenly burst into uncontrollable tears.  I'm talking little kid crying - and I knew it was insane but I just could not stop!  I felt so awful that all I was feeding my baby were bagels and gritz.  My poor husband didn't know what he had just gotten himself into!

Thankfully, the really insane nausea got a little better and I was able to eat a little more normally after a couple of weeks.  Also thankfully, the carbs had very little effect on my forever low blood sugars.  When I was preparing for pregnancy I was eating what I would consider a lower carb diet - about 100 a day give or take.  Nothing like Atkins thank God, but I found that all things being equal, my blood sugars were just better when I simply ate fewer carbs (no matter how many docs told me I should be able to eat what I want on the pump as long as I count carbs carefully).  Anyways I digress.  My point is that suddenly switching to a high carb diet gave me virtually no problems.  In some strange way, the change in my insulin needs matched the change in my diet.

So that's the nutrition story for trimester 1!  In other news, tomorrow I have a very important ultrasound.  This one will be testing for genetic abnormalities.  It's a little scary, but I'm doing my best not to worry until and unless I have something to worry about.  What's that saying?  Don't borrow trouble.  I'll have an update about the visit tomorrow...to be continued.