A fast, furious, embodied and empowering birth – sharing River’s birth story in its entirety! Let me start off with a little back story for context.On Friday, December 27th, at 30 weeks pregnant, I found out I had gestational diabetes.I was shocked, confused, angry, sad, in denial, scared…As someone who has worked really hard to find peace with food, I was upset about having to be more rigid with what I was eating.

ESPECIALLY because Steve and I had our baby moon to the Bahamas planned that following week.A baby moon spent pricking my fingers 4x/day, stressing over blood sugar levels, and skipping the virgin pina coladas?! I didn’t skip the coladas but I also stressed way too much about food and my sugars and it put a big damper on our getaway.Needless to say, I want a redo someday on the carefree Bahamas vacay.

Once we got back home and into our routine, I was able to manage my post meal sugars well but my fasting sugars always hovered around 93-100 (they wanted them below 95).We took a wait-and-see approach for needing to start nighttime insulin.I really didn’t want to start insulin because then I would’ve been induced at 39 weeks and I’d have to switch my care from my certified nurse midwife who I had a relationship with to an OB who I never met before.

This was the practice’s standard protocol.As we approached 37/38 weeks, my fasting sugars started to creep up a little more.I’d have 3 days of slightly elevated fasting levels an

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