Mrs. KPShubert - Calendar

Just in case y'all wanted to keep up with what week we're in with this baby and when my OB appointments are (were too) I've set up this Keep and Share calendar with all that... Well, I've only added the even weeks up to week 20 so far.   http://www.keepandshare.com/calendar/show_month.php?i=804960&lang=   It's totally public to view so no worries on that front.   Better get back to work, love y'all!

Mrs. KPShubert – Diabetes & You... no, wait that's & Me

It has come to my attention that at least one of my friends was rather freaked out when I divulged that I was pregnant and have diabetes – I think partially because it was thought that I had gestational diabetes.

I do not have gestational diabetes – I have type 2 that was already under control before I conceived. This is not to say that having diabetes is something to sneeze at or that I wouldn't encourage research if you are so inclined – but it's not something that is either so rare or dangerous that it never happens or is never successful.

As it stands I am (technically) a high risk pregnancy. Not only because of the diabetes but I am overweight and I have had multiple miscarriages before this baby. In the beginning when I went to see my OB for this pregnancy he informed me that I'd probably be seeing him once a week for the first couple of months.

After that first visit I went back a week later, he told me to come back in 2 weeks. I went to that appointment yesterday and because my diabetes is so well managed at this point he said to come back in a month. I'm not worried.

I have to call him in a couple of weeks to report in to his nurse (Barbara) but other than that I'm doing very well. :-) I know the risks and I'm not willing to put myself in the position of having a 15 lb watermelon instead of a sweet baby <8 lb!!!

Earlier I said I'm technically a high risk pregnancy – yes I'm in the category but because I'm being so closely watched it's less likely to be an issue than if this was a problem that crept up on me and we were trying to play catch up later.

Okay, if you have any questions, concerns or comments please feel free to leave them here or e-mail me lrshubert@yahoo.com or you can post/message to my Facebook!

Oh – and I'm sad because I found out that the smell of cucumber makes me gag something fierce… *sigh*

I better get back to it… Love y'all!

Mrs. KPShubert - Maternity Clothes

If you see my FB posts you might know I bought a couple of outfits of maternity clothes from a resale event recently. They're really nice (for work) clothes and are super comfortable!

I have a couple of pairs of pants for work that have been rather large on me for some time now, so I'm missing one day's worth. Currently, as in until I get one more pair of pants and today specifically, I'm using a pair of pants that make me realize just how comfortable those new clothes are! I haven't had the chance to change out of work clothes today and I'm really regretting not making the time. :-( I'm not hurting myself or the baby I'm just uncomfortable... *sigh*

I'm glad that I haven't totally rid myself of a few favorite pieces that have gotten loose in the last few years - I'll have a decent wardrobe without buying too much more! Hmmm, now that I think about it I have to wonder if I have a coat that will fit me in January?!

I better let y'all off this ride for now, please keep all appendages inside the ride until the vehicle comes to a complete stop. Love y'all!!!

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Mrs. KPShubert - What's in a name?

Last Thursday (I think it was Thursday) I went to the library nearest Anjoli's school before I picked her up. I didn't stop to get anything specific but I thought I'd check out the books on pregnancy - surprisingly I found one on "plus-sized" ladies and pregnancy.

After perusing the section I thought about other baby things, but since I'm not a first-timer I thought most of the titles weren't for me. I stopped at baby names and I picked up 2 books there too! :)

I really like the Baby Names For Dummies book - even though it's formatted in a strange style (for me at least, never having read a "For Dummies" book before) - it really has a lot of useful information and the index of names in the back is easy enough to navigate.

I'm not sure how Mr. will react to me publicizing my lists but I'm curious about your opinions - dear as you are to me. So here goes!

Boys:

      Seth
       David
       Samuel
       Benjamin
       Javier
       Rafael

Girls:

       Esther
       Michelle
       Maggie (or maybe Marguerite and Maggie for short)
       Noel
       Leah
       Belinda

I plan on giving this child a first and middle name so I’m thinking of including a family name like Guadalupe (or Lupe for a girl) somewhere in there – I know technically Rafael is a family name too – or maybe I’ll just use a couple of names from the lists above. Seth Javier Esther Michelle? :-)

Anyway, these are my lists so far. You’re welcome to comment or e-mail me if you’d like to let me know what you think!

Better get back to it, love y’all!

Mrs. KPShubert - Just a quick note...

It's just been one of THOSE Mondays... If it could go wrong it seems to have done so already. I'm really rather surprised that the e-mail I'm currently composing isn't smoking around the edges.

I have to say - I'm about to bust out crying for "no reason" and have been this way for the last 3 or 4 hours - though we both know it's "no reason" ...the reason - progesterone!

Oh, how one tiny hormone can make such a large impact on things - from a beautiful baby in the making to a crazy nauseated balloon of a woman! It slices, it dices, it even juliennes fries!

Anyway, I better get out of here - it's that time - love y'all!

Mrs. KPShubert - Kidneys are cool beans!

Yesterday I was minding my business and all of a sudden heard the voicemail tone from my phone. This was odd because I usually have my phone on vibrate at work - oops! I immediately silenced the phone and checked my message.

It was the lab tech lady from my OB's office - Gayle. I like Gayle, she's a little southern (belle) lady - heavy on the drawl. So I had to listen to the message 3 times before I really understood what she said.

And what she said was that my OB had the results for my 24 hour pee test and that the results were normal. :)

I was so thrilled - I could pee easier knowing (excuse the body humor & slight pun)!

Just wanted to share something not about puking & good news! Talk soon, love y'all!

Mrs. KPShubert - It's not easy being green!

According to my calendar (from the first day of my last cycle) I'm 9 wks & 3 days into this 9 months and if that's correct Jellybean is now the size of a prune - about 1 1/2 inches long.

Y'all know I'm not a slight girl - but I didn't think I'd be getting uncomfortable in my clothes this early. I'm like - really? Really???

I know it's uncomfortable to sit for long periods of time - like I'm used to - sitting straight up as the baby is now at the bottom of my tummy area and likes to remind me that I'm pregnant. :)

So I'm trying to sit back in my chair and have brought my keyboard - it's on a moving arm from under the desk - to more in front of me. I think this might work.

Yesterday and today I experimented with cereal and milk - and yesterday it didn't make me want to puke but the cereal was one of Anjoli's Kashi (with bananas) and it made my blood glucose over 120 (not much but enough that I thought twice about eating it again). So today I brought one of the Bear Naked types (with berries) to work and it was interesting - and did make me want to puke. I did finish the bowl but it was close. The berries were the "problem" - I'm an okay fan of berries normally but apparently I'm not a fan of freeze dried ones at all!

I had to check the ingredients to make sure (afterwards) that there weren't any strange sugars or chemicals in the berries - nope. Bear Naked is one of those we-don't-use-fake-stuff companies and that's one reason I like them... too bad. My bg after that experiment was 148 - awful compared to what I was hoping and where I should be. I may have to go back to chocolate cheerios or mini-frosted-wheats if I'm going to do cereal. Not that I wouldn't be okay with them - I love those - but I'm afraid that now I won't love them so much as want to hurl them. That's not to mention how my bg will be affected by them now. :(

If you can't tell I'm trying to get to a place where I can eat the same few things each day and get reliable numbers for my bg and not want to throw up - as the title of this blog suggests... It's not easy being green!

I bought some lean pockets (whole grain crust), a couple of cans of black olives and some broccoli/cheese single serve frozen cups. I'm hoping these will be good for my tummy and sugars. I feel like I'm doing a puzzle... if I stick this piece here and then turn the other piece around - did I make a picture of a puppy or a jumbled mass of puke?

We'll know soon enough! :-D I'd better get back to it - love y'all!

Mrs. KPShubert - Eating... (AKA Nauseating Times, aka As the Stomach Turns)

Lunch is usually an uneventful meal for me when I'm at work. I have a stash of chunk chicken (in cans) and canned green beans currently. These staples change but not very much and I used to do the tuna pouches but not anymore. Lately I've had chicken salad (the can – rinsed the chicken first – with some olive oil mayo) on a piece of 100% whole wheat bread. It's a little monotonous after the first 3 days. So I brought in the last two, of the package we had at home, of Oscar Mayer No Nitrates, No Byproducts All Beef Hot Dogs to work today thinking "oooooh change!"

And then I had to bum a piece of bread off another diabetic friend of mine at work (Thanks Linda!) because I used my last piece and ¼ (the butt was cut wrong) for breakfast.

I'm thinking this is going to be delish! I cut the two dogs down the middle lengthwise and put the little package of cheese cubey things evenly on both and nuked them for 40 seconds – just until the cheese started to melt! ☺ Yum!

I made sure there was mustard, from the last hotdog cookout our company had (last Friday) in the fridge and slathered on my usual amount – double Yum!

By this point I'm pretty hungry – it's time to chow! I scarfed down the first hotdog with my one piece of bread and immediately wanted to throw up afterwards. Okay – this is not unusual for a first-trimester-pregnant lady. But I mean I had to get up slowly and walk to the bathroom and stand outside because I knew if I smelled the inside I'd for sure lose it!

I stayed that way for a couple of minutes and a few people looked at me funny but I don't care. I managed to keep my "perfect" record of not tossing my food! ☺ Yay!

It was a close thing.

Okay, break time is over – I still haven't tried to eat the second dog, we'll see.

Talk to y'all soon, love ya!

Mrs. KPShubert - Blessings

Not sure if anyone besides Mr. & Mrs. are actually reading this little blog of (ours) but it’s fun nonetheless!

I just wanted to give a shout of praise to God for all the wonderful blessings He gives us, no matter how much money we do/don’t have we have so much more than all that. God has given me the most wonderful husband—ever! Never did I dream that I’d be married to such an amazing person!

God truly knows what we need and when—I know that I’m way emotional with all these hormones but I truly didn’t know it was so overwhelming when you actually look around and realize that it doesn’t matter if the world falls around your feet, God is good. Always.

Even as I type this Mr. is editing my last blog entry! *sigh* Truly amazing!

Through all this morning sickness he’s been so sweet and understanding—and no I don’t think it’s because of the "suffering" I’ll do to have the baby, although that may play a small part—just that his actions speak of love more than guilt. :-P

So, THANK YOU GOD! You’re a wonderful provider and healer for my soul—thank You for giving me such perfect blessings all the time!

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I better get back to it—oh and this is my first e-mailed post—we’ll see how this turns out!

Love y’all!

Mrs. KPShubert - Um... Testing 1, 2, 24

So I wrote this last Sunday, was having router and blogspot, blogpress issues then I forgot about it... Until I remembered and then forgot again, hello absentminded and exhausted pregnant lady here! Well, there you have my excuses, what's yours?

And without further ado:

I think I mentioned my OB wanting to have me do testing on my kidney function, the purpose of which would be really to check for damage likely caused by unchecked diabetes—from before I was taking care of myself properly. Now, raise your hand if you know what this test requires.

I see no hands—Kurt's doesn't count—so I'll fill you in on this one. They called it the 24 hr pee test. I have to collect 24 hours worth of my urine. It's rather uncomfortable and not a bit awkward. I figured I didn't want to be doing this at work—don't drink he lemonade!—so I set myself for this weekend. I didn't think about being out in public until the last minute. That's when I figured I'd have to take some sort of collection device along. The lab gave me this large Tang orange coloured bottle to pour the specimens in and keep refrigerated, thank God for our extra fridge! The out in public collector was a thermos type cup that I didn't even know we had, from Kansas so I'm thinking it was something he KC Shubert's gave KP one of those trips where he's needed water or whatever for the return trip. And I taped the little holes in the lid shut—no need to tempt whoever is holding it with liquid inside and I'm not sure I could stand the smell anyhow!

I'd like to think I would've been fine with this method in a public place—that is why we toted it along to the laundry mat and it stayed in the car for the trip to Target, Starbucks and Kroger. I, however, never had to use it! I think my bladder was on my side this time... Too creepy for comfort and I made it home in time every time!

LOL! Sounds almost like our company motto (old one) "on time every time"—nice.

I go back to turn it in and see about any insulin adjustments on Thursday but tomorrow... Er really close to today as it's 11:57 pm is the first day of school for Anjoli! She's a sixth grader now and her "new" school is not so new anymore so she'll be one of the old-timers setting a good example for the new crop of 5th graders who probably aren't used to the strict rules and long hours they'll be seeing at LRPA! Woohoo, go Gladiators! Not that I approve of violence or was given choice in the naming of the school mascot...*sigh*

I better get to bed, g'night & love y'all!


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Mr. KPShubert - A Matter of Taste

I guess it was inevitable. Certainly anybody who knows much of anything about pregnancy and pregnant women would have expected it.

Lisa was talking today about how she normally doesn't care for peanut butter—a fact I can definitely attest to—but has started to use it (on toast) as a substitute to the cereal she much prefers as a breakfast food.

Now at about this point, you're going, "So?" That is, unless you read her FaceBook® post this morning about how adding chunks of cheddar cheese to the mix makes it so much better.

As I say, I guess it was inevitable that the "odd tastes" would kick in sooner or later.

How do I feel about her eating "odd food combinations?" It's fine by me! Heck, if it helps her to keep food down and/or provides nutrients she and the baby need, more power to her! And I might even be persuaded to try a thing or two.

Peanut butter and cheddar doesn't sound all that enticing to me. Then again, I would never have thought of George Washington's peanut soup (I'm sure it existed before he loved it as a foodstuff, but he apparently did love it as a foodstuff) would be a good thing to eat either.

And honestly, they do make peanut butter cheddar crackers which—were it not for the partially hydrogenated oils—I would very much enjoy eating (having had them in past). So maybe this combination is not as odd as it first seems.

Mr. KPShubert - Cautious Optimism

So, to this point, everything seems to be going along swimmingly. And that is truly a blessing of God as far as I'm concerned.

I have a great deal of peace about where we are by this point. This is not our "first attempt" at having kids together—don't get me wrong, I love my kids (even if I consider myself having been foolish for having brought them into the world while married to a woman I can see now I didn't love), and I love Lisa's daughter equally (and consider her as much mine as Lisa's). Well, to be fair, I can't say we were exactly trying before, so much as we were not not trying—if that makes sense.

I think more important than my piece at this point though, is Lisa's. Though she's had to go through some changes and more than a bit of discomfort (with more to come, you can be sure), I think I can honestly say she's "settling in" to the "mommy-to-be" life pretty well.

She has been trying to take care of herself anyway, so what she is having to do now is just somewhat an "extension" of what she was already doing. Granted, certain of the things she has to do as a result of being pregnant she would not have to do normally, but the point is, she was already "doing what was needed" to take care of herself to a large degree.

I have had several folks ask me whether I want a boy or a girl. Well, to begin with, I already have a boy and two girls. That makes it so I'm less concerned about the baby's sex than I might be if that were not the case. Truthfully though, I never really was worried about what sex my child was going to be with any of my children. Each of them has been a gift and a blessing from God! That being said, I'm not going to worry any more now than I did then about that. Let it be God's "surprise and blessing" what He decides we will be getting.

And just for the the record, the "so long as its healthy" thing? No, it's our baby—healthy or not—and I will again assume that God's plan is best. Don't get me wrong, I would love a healthy baby, but I would love an unhealthy one too (if that makes sense).

Okay! Enough babbling for now.