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Pregnancy, Pineapples, And Type 1 Diabetes

I could eat this by the POUND. Hi there.  I’m addicted to pineapple.

This week, I’ll be five months pregnant, and it seems like the vitamin C cravings I had early on in my pregnancy are back with a vengeance.  Orange juice (yes, with pulp), kiwi fruit, apples, raisins (even though they’re low in it, I still want them), and pineapple.  To the point where Chris and I bought a pineapple at the grocery store last week and I ate half of it in two days time.  What’s good is that, for whatever reason, my blood sugars aren’t rebelling against this fruit overload.  (Different from cute overload, where hamsters play the trumpet.)  Before the BSparl invasion, I had things like oatmeal timed out with precision, so that I could eat something with 30 grams of carbs in it without a spike, but just one apple could cause my numbers to go berserk.  Now?  Oatmeal is hard to predict, but I can nosh on a whole bowl of fruit salad, estimate the carbs, and coast in the low 100’s for NO REASON.

Pregnancy and type 1 diabetes is a very peculiar combination.  /digression Read more »

*This blog post was originally published at Six Until Me.*

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