Obligatory photo of our 13 week old fetus that looks suspiciously like all other 13 week old fetuses (except ours is the cutest, obviously)
We have some amazing news. Geoff and I are thrilled, delighted and overjoyed to announce that we’re expecting a baby. Oh yes, ShootUp is getting an offshoot, I’m pregnant!
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Wow wow wow!! Massive congrats!!!!! 😉
I’ve already heartily congratulated you and Geoff – but now let me do it publicly! Hearty congratulations co-writer – you know that Katie & I couldn’t be more pleased for you both.
Congratulations. I hope you have as problem free a pregnancy as it is possible to have.
Congratulations!
(on both the future offspring & the hba1c)
Wonderful news – huge congratulations!
Wow big congratulations to you both!
Congratulations! – and good luck on all the extra appointments 🙂 Don’t know if it’s the same in the UK, but here in DK, once pregnant you have hospital appointments every two weeks until you’re 32 weeks pregnant, then it’s every week. I don’t miss that, but now I also got an 11 weeks old to take all my time and attention 🙂
Absolutely fantastic news!!
Congratulations. Really, really, really pleased for you, Geoff and bump.
And your fetus is obviously the third most beautiful one ever to be photographed 😀
Yay! Brilliant! Great news. Huge congratulations to you both 😀
Hope the pregnancy goes well – and the bump plays nicely with your BGs.
Alison, what FANTABULOUS news! I also took 6 long treatment-full years to have my daughter, and with much fertility treatment and IVF, I eventually (with a 5 year gap) had my son too.
I absolutely know how over-the-moon you must be, I’m really quite emotional. For me, I found it much easier, control, when I was pregnant.
Take it easy, maybe have your vitamin D3 checked. XXXX
What lovely, happy news for you.
There’s no better reason to make your diabetes stand in a dark corner for the day.
Congratulations!
Thanks for all the kind words. This wasn’t a very traditional way to celebrate Halloween, but it works for me!
Congratulations! We’re all looking forward to the new addition!
Congratulations @alison (and Geoff, obviously!)
Huge congratulations!
You may remember (or not!) that I posted about 9 months ago that I was 4 weeks pregnant… well, I’m sat here now with a healthy 5 week old little girl attached to my boob (with plenty of ‘food’ on board despite diabetic mastopathy).
Diabetic pregnancy is hard work (as I’m sure you know) so hang in there but I think (though slightly biased) that it means you can be doubly proud of yourself and your little one when they arrive.
Eve was born on 26th September and was 8lb 9oz. I was induced at 38 weeks, which is fairly standard for diabetic mums, so she could possibly have been on the larger size of average by 40 weeks but she certainly wasn’t the ‘whopper’ that the so called experts all lead you to believe you will undoubtedly have as a ‘normal’ result of having diabetes. My HbA1c was between 5,5 and 6,3 throughout pregnancy and I know I was only able to achieve this thanks to having my pump. The growth scan measurements were all fine, except her abdomen which was on the 97th percentile but i didn’t have a buddha belly baby!
I did end up having a c-section, which also seems to be the ‘norm’ for diabetics after being induced, and Eve did have low blood sugar shortly after birth, so she had to spend a few days in the special care baby unit – which isn’t nice at the time but its very common and it’s much better if you try to prepare yourself for this in advance. My advice, for what it’s worth, is ask your midwife/DSN about expressing pre delivery, from 36 weeks. If you can do it, though it feels very odd at the time, it is so worth it to help them stablise their sugar level asap.
And above all else , if you haven’t found it already, is brilliant!
Ooh, long post, sorry… congrats again. Wishing you a v healthy pregnancy and looking forward to the new shoot up addition!
hmmm… failed miserably at posting a link there!! This forum – http://www.diabetessupport.co.uk/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=14 is brilliant!
Thanks @bellebe and congratulations to you too, you’ve had an exciting few months! And I think you should be doubly proud of yourself – it is a huge achievement to have great control and a healthy baby and still be sane at the end of it.
At the moment, I’m happily ignoring the fact that the baby has to come out at some point! But when I do face up to reality, high on my list of things to talk to my team about is the seemingly huge numbers of people I read about being induced, labouring for a while and then ending up with a c-section anyway.
haha! I didn’t say I was still sane (or that I started out that way!!) 😉
Just to make a point about that – I was induced early both times but my babies were 6lb and 6lb 10 oz, they only grow too big if your control is poor.
Congratulations!! I’m so happy for you! 🙂
Absolutely delighted for you, brilliant news. Always felt it was the best thing I’d ever done to produce my two. By the way mine went the way you described exactly but have to say that C sections in my view are the only way to have babies, loved the morphine as well post op, was the happiest mother on the ward!
The biggest congrats for you both. That’s exciting news and I’m not surprised that you’re over the moon. A wonderful place to be.
Definitely my second-favourite foetus of all time! Congratulations!
Congratulations, that is really one cute foetus!
No Kids myself, but this must be a great feeling – moon, over it for you!
Steve