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@wonderstruck: Love and hugs are being sent your way. It sounds like it's been a pretty awful pregnancy on both an emotional and a physical level, and it's totally understandable that you want it to be over! Every time you have to prick your finger with a stupid needle, just imagine the first carb-loaded food you'll have postpartum that you've totally earned. Hang in there, friend.

So many hugs for you Hang in there... It will be over!!!

@wonderstruck: I'm sorry you're having such a difficult pregnancy. I can tell you that you will be fine! I promise. You can track me down and punch me if you're not. The monitoring needles are not bad at all. Just a little pinch. Run your finger under warm water, dry it, use an alcohol swab, and do it. Everything will be ok. Hugs, my dear. let me know if you have questions. I've been there.

@wonderstruck: I understand, I went through some dietary issues last year and figuring out the details of what to eat was the hardest part! I think its at least worth trying to get out of the pricks, I'm sure the dietician will see how nervous you are about it. Good luck, you'll get through it!

I'm sorry It will end, and you will have an awesome kid. And you know that. But when you're in the thick of it, man it sucks and goes on and on and on. Throw a pity party, you deserve it

I am so sorry!

@wonderstruck: Hugs to you lady - you are so strong! I am also dealing with an incredibly medically difficult pregnancy and and having such similar feelings about it. Everyone keeps telling me "focus on your healthy baby" but I know how hard that can be when every day is miserable. I wish I knew the best thing to say, but just know that it is ok to vent/complain and please do whatever you can to comfort yourself. And don't be afraid to bug your doctor's office for details!
Please feel free to wall me if you ever need to vent/complain -- I'm right there with you!

Big hugs to you and sending strength your way!

While I can't relate to all the struggles you have been through or your needle phobia, I can tell you that GD isn't the end of the world.

I agree with @swedishfish: the needle pricks aren't that bad. Since you already don't like needles, I'd get the finest available to minimize the pinch. And prepping is so important.

The GD diet isn't hard necessarily, just requires planning and measuring. There really isn't anything you can NOT eat, it's just about making choices of what will keep you satisfied vs starving

I can tell you that I've been at it (for the second pregnancy now) for about 2 weeks and I've lost 3 lbs. I'm still eating and mostly not hungry, just making much better choices.

At the end of my first pregnancy, I was below pre-pregnancy weight within 2 weeks. The diet will really help you with weight gain/control and make the post-partum weight loss much easier.

While I can't necessarily fix your fear of needles, I'm happy to listen on the GD front.

Pregnancy can be a tough journey, physically and emotionally, filled with very high highs and the lowest of lows. I hope when you hold your baby in your arms you can feel that this was all worth it. When I was pregnant with DD and when I will hopefully be pregnant again, I accepted any challenging aspect because it's what I hoped and prayed for.

@wonderstruck: I'm so sorry. I know how you feel. I had 5 ER trips during my pregnancy and pre term contractions that started at 26 weeks. Not fun!! It just sucks when you feel like others have perfect stress free pregnancies and you have to deal with so much worry and discomfort. Just remember that everything is short lived and it will ALL be worth it when baby gets here!

Sending hugs! One technique that I use when dealing with challenges (different than yours, but I still think it applies), is to focus on how I will feel about it down the road. One of my problems will be resolved one way or another in a year. Right now it seems so huge, but down the road it will probably be a blip on the radar. Hugs!

I was diagnose with GD at 9 weeks (about a month ago). I remember being where you are. Like what do I do between finding out I have GD and waiting for the appointment with my nutritionist?

My hospital sent me a bunch of links when I failed. The nurse told me that I don't need to do anything special till I meet with my nutritionist.

I wanted to talk about the promising to be on a strict diet to not prick. In theory that's a good idea but the reason you prick is to see how your body is processing the sugar. That can actually change drastically as your pregnancy progresses. So watching your diet and excising may work at first... might not work later on. They want to see if there is a point you will need to go on insulin. One of my friends that had it for her last pregnancy she said suddenly her numbers got high and she couldn't control it no matter what and thus had to put on insulin.

My GD nurses say that a spike once in a while is okay and even a week of spiking is okay but they don't want it to go more than that because it could affect the baby and we want to make sure the baby grows in a normal rate and is healthy.

I wanted to start a GD support group but I don't think that many people have it here. If you every want to talk about it, you can always wall me! Good luck.

I'm so sorry that you're having such a hard pregnancy. I can really relate. I had HG and then ended up with pre-e and delivered at 27 weeks. I felt like nothing went right. It's really a horrible experience to have a traumatic pregnancy. I don't have much advice besides just take it one day at a time.

@wonderstruck: Any updates on GD? I was thinking about you today.

@wonderstruck: One thing that helped me with the caffeine was switching to tea. I drank iced tea like it was going out of style because it was so hot.

@wonderstruck: Glad you checked in. You should have a better sense of direction after your dietician appointment. 10 weeks, mama! That's not bad at all. I know that's not what it feels like, but you are in the home stretch. You can totally manage through this.

The log is pretty standard. As is the follow up in 1-2 weeks. I just went through this. I went on meds this week, but it's a tiny pill not another needle While I don't have the needle issues, I know exactly how you are feeling otherwise with the diagnosis. This was very much me with my first pregnancy. After a couple weeks you will feel more at ease and like it is outside your control. It was actually very free-ing for me to realize that I wasn't in control and whatever needed to happen would.