Testimonial: Well yes diabetes, I had to wait for him, I imagine...

With a twin pregnancy and cystic fibrosis, you must increase your nutrient intake considerably, because these 2 conditions combined require a lot of energy.

Before I got pregnant, I controlled my blood sugar by avoiding sugar as much as possible: no dessert and not too many carbohydrate-rich foods. In addition, I made sure to include protein in all my meals (proteins cause the body to absorb carbohydrates over a longer period of time).

I was quickly followed by the pregnancy diabetes clinic. Even though I wasn't tested for induced hyperglycemia, I was assessed as being at risk. The clinic is made up of different endocrinologists, so you never see the same person.

Once, I was scheduled to meet 4 different professionals (nutritionist, nurse, resident, and endocrinologist) during the same day, all of whom analyzed and commented on my food diary. At the 4^E Nobody, the little patience I have in life had left me. I have already been told 3 times to include protein in all my meals and snacks and to be active. When I went to the endocrinologist, I told him that nuts and cheese were full of nuts and cheese.

Plus, I kept getting told how bad high blood sugar or low blood sugar is for my babies. But I did not feel that I was being given real solutions to stabilize my sugar levels, which varied a lot.

In addition, by wanting to limit my carbohydrate consumption to a minimum (this is the solution I found to avoid fluctuating my sugar levels), I had a lot of difficulty gaining weight. Faced with this observation, the nutritionist explained to me that it was not good for babies not to gain enough weight, because it could affect their weight gain and could cause complications during their birth.

But how do I feed myself well in order to give the best to my babies without jeopardizing their pancreas (with too fluctuating sugar levels)? How do I get out of this impasse maintaining an unresolved guilt?

One of my diabetes clinic appointments had to come on “the right day”. The day Dr. Competent works! Funny, because this doctor was also part of the fertility clinic team. She was the one who did my viability ultrasound for me! (Have I already told you how much I respect all the work that some doctors do?)

I explain to him that day that I no longer know what to do, no longer being able to eat sugar to limit the fluctuation of my blood sugar levels, but also not being able to eat my fill and gain weight, because that's all I wanted to eat sugar, the rest of it making my heart skip a beat.

However, the solution was simple: inject myself with insulin when I ate sugar. For me, this tool was a relief and not a disappointment to have reached this point. I finally had a way to be proactive so that my babies had all the energy they needed!

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