straight juice makes my blood sugar go bonkers.

Teppy is, once again, me. It's good to know, since I've gotten the "yes, she is crazy" look when I've said that straight fruit juice is the road to headaches and yelling at people.

So the 8-16 soft drinks a day I drank growing up might have been a bad thing?

Teppy is, once again, me. It's good to know, since I've gotten the "yes, she is crazy" look when I've said that straight fruit juice is the road to headaches and yelling at people.

And yet, when I have a bad cold, I can guzzle orange juice by the VAT and not get wonky blood sugar. The rest of the time, though? If I have juice, I have to have it with a full meal, generally one with a decent fat content. Go figure.

Naptime can get tough as they outgrow it. We always made sure to say the kids simply had to stay in their beds, or even in their rooms, but not specifically enforce *sleep* (which is, you know, impossible). They usually dozed off anyway out of boredom, and at least I got a break.

Um.

Yeah, that's how it's coming to work in Castle Miracleborn.

Yesterday was pretty fun in regard to naptime. Em and I were chilling on the couch, having cleaned the house, and Em was getting obvious-naptime-cranky and I mentioned that it would be naptime for her in a few minutes.

"NNNOOOO!! I JUST NOT SLEEPY! NO! NEVER!"

Two minutes later: "Daddy! I wanna blanket!"

"Okay, punk."

Two minutes after that: "zzzzzzzzzzz"

So the 8-16 soft drinks a day I drank growing up might have been a bad thing?

It may have prepped you for an adulthood in which sleep is merely an option, not a requirement.

Prep for life in the theatre I guess. Should be an ad campaign for Dr. Pepper.

And yet, when I have a bad cold, I can guzzle orange juice by the VAT and not get wonky blood sugar. The rest of the time, though? If I have juice, I have to have it with a full meal, generally one with a decent fat content. Go figure.

See, this is so weird to me, but I'm looking at it as someone with diabetes.

Being sick itself raises my blood sugar (so does having my period, or any kind of strange stress on my body), so to me the above example is like, Whoa, insta-coma!

I used to get dangerously low blood sugars at first when adjusting my insulin during pregnancy, and my doctor always said, "If that happens, drink milk and eat some crackers with peanut butter." And I was like, at three in the morning when my blood sugar is 36 and I'm shaking and sweating? I'm drinking JUICE, yo. It's the only time I can!

Sickness does the same to me Amy. But no Insulin here, so it isn't quite so bad.

I have a coworker that is pregnant. She just went through a class and found out they want her to eat more grains. Turns out both her parents are diabetic - so she grew up eating a lot less grains than the average american. ( she also prefers vegetables to fruit)

I had SUCH a sweet tooth when I was pregnant. It was such a bizarre feeling for me, craving sugary stuff.

Oy, not looking forward to tonight. At least if he doesn't sleep he'll still be cute.

I don't use insulin now, beth. Only had to while pregnant. I take oral meds now.