12 Weeks

So according to my LMP, I'm 12 weeks today! Yay!
(Although if we go by the dumb sonographer, I'm 11 weeks tomorrow, but lets forget her)

We still have to wait another 11 days for our scan, so will have a more accurate date on the 11th June.

My 17 year old nephew has insisted on paying for our 'Gender Peek' Scan, and tricked me into taking the money yesterday! So we will be booking that for 16 weeks when we have our more accurate date at the scan in 11 days.

I've just been upset by the nurse at my G.P surgery. I've had another couple of episodes of low blood sugars and hypos, so I rang to speak to someone. She actually shouted at me down the phone demanding to know where I got a blood glucose monitor from, so I explained that my dad and nephew are diabetic, and I always keep a monitor in the house. But, does she not know, ANYONE can buy a monitor in Boots or a chemist? She told me I was over reacting and causing myself to panic for no reason, I should not be testing my blood glucose levels, and she wasn't interesting in hearing about how low my levels had dropped. 2.3, 2.5 and 2.8 are FAR from within normal limits. She just wanted to shout at me and make me feel like a drama queen. I tried to explain my family history, that I am higher risk of gestational diabetes. All she asked was had I been eating properly, so I said of course, I have been keeping a food and blood glucose diary, cue, more shouting for using the monitor. I then explained my last 'hypo' 2 days ago, I was actually drinking a can of coke at the time, so it made absolutely no sense what so ever that my levels dropped to 2.8. She wasn't interested.
I'm now too scared to make a doctors appointment or ring my midwife, because I've been made to feel really stupid and that I'm being a drama queen. I just don't know what to do?

I also have a theory on women who are diagnosed with gestational diabetes in the third trimester. When my blood sugar levels go low, it can be mistaken for normal pregnancy related dizziness, sickness, weakness. Just I am more aware of hypo symptoms, so wondered and checked my blood glucose levels.
Low blood sugar levels can be diagnosed with hyperinsulinemia, where the body produces too much insulin for the time being, then, later the pancreas doesn't have enough insulin to produce, and therefore are diagnosed with diabetes (mainly type 2)
I'm sure if they tested more women's blood glucose levels more regularly in first tri (high risk for developing gestational diabetes) it will show more markers for if they will develop it later in pregnancy. But the symptoms are always just put down to 'normal pregnancy related symptoms'

I'm feeling a bit better physically this week, I'm still waking up with headaches, but not so bad, backache is still sore, but not unbearable. I am actually the size of a house already! Bongo has started taking weekly pictures, here is this weeks.

Looks like a good excuse to go and buy more clothes!!