Going to share my perspective as I am currently dealing with this and have been to Disney with it : ) I would ALWAYS choose to go to Disney and just modify my plans so that I could enjoy it on whatever level I am able. Just being pg means you aren't riding a few rides anyway. You can always sit or watch moe shows if needed and Nov is not likely to be too hot.
I had GD with my first pg and was able to control by diet. I was diagnosed late that time somewhere saround 30 weeks so only had to deal with it for 6 weeks or so (I delivered early that time!). I went to Disney during this pregnancy and besides bringing a few items around the park with me for healthy snacks, low carb snacks I found it to be easy and no big deal. Since I was supposed to be controlling by diet and it seemed to be close enough I wasn't too stressed or inconveienced by the whole thing, just lots of testing.
2nd baby I chose to loosely use a diabetic diet as a precauation since I was borderline, but not officially diagnosed. Also, not much of an inconvenience, but I felt tired if I ate to many carbs.
3rd baby, I'm now 38 I was diagnosed around 26 weeks and it has been a real struggle. I'm just going to give you my 2 cents so take it how you like. I knew this baby is going to be our last, we have had fertility issues as well, so I am very proactive to make sure things are just right this time. I went to
Disneyland with my hubby, daughter, niece and mother in law during week Week 28 of pregnancy. I had little baggies of all my appropriate snacks (pitachios, almonds, cheesesticks, carrots with ranch) that were almost no carb so I could munch along the way and baggies with prefilled snacks of just the right amount of carbs (granola bars, peanut butters and crackers, crackers and cheese, popcorn, strawberries, apple, plum, etc ). I found it easier to have these baggies of 15 grams of carbs handy so I just grabbed a few and knew what I could have. I used my daughters insulted lunch bag so it kept cold and always had water handy to stay hydrated. I hate trying to figure out portion size at an inopportune time so the baggies worked a charm! At this point we were just trying to control by diet. I explained to the rest of the group that I needed to have an idea of where we might go to eat so I looked up some of the likely places we might go and printed nutritional guides so I would know the carbs of quite a few places that we were likely to eat. That way when I showed up I knew what I could order. Much of this is available online. I did Panera bread, Olive Garden, La Bou, Round Table Pizza, Macaroni Grill, KFC, McDonald's, Subway, etc. National chain places tend to have this available, mom and pop places don't so you know to be able to gauge the ingredients and the carb possibility.
For that trip, my doc had no issues different from a regular pregnancy it was summer so I imagine Tday will be easier. I had to carry my testing equipment and make sure it didn't get too hot like and obviously not wet. Just make sure you have it everyday and have enough of all the items you need.
For food/scheduling this is what I was restricted to at that point and how I dealt with it.
woke up and tested a quick fasting no big deal
for breakfast I was able to have 30 grams of carbs so I tended to eat high protein eggs/omelets/ 1 piece of small fruit and 1 small roll with butter. Forget pancakes, bagels, muffins, waffles as those were all too high. I had an easy time eating out since most places are heavy on eggs/meat for breakfast.
Then, I had to test an hour later, this was easy for me to remember since we weren't at the parks yet.
Then, about 2 hours later I was supposed to have a snack and it was MUCH easier for me to have my own to eat since I didn't have to hunt a healthy snack down and could just eat in line. If my numbers were too low I get shaky/jittery and kind of faint so it was a big deal to have a morning snack for me, especially if I was walking around a lot. This also was no big deal at all. Often had fruit at this time since it was fresher earlier in the day, eating squashed strawberries towards the end of the day wasn't quite as good!
Lunch- I was able to have 30 grams of carbs and this was much harder, you really have to love salads, tacos, fajitas, or sandwiches with a small wrap or half the bread as most of what was available was much higher carb than this. Defintiely doable though, just have to plan a bit more. I usuallly had to really try to remind myself to test after this one, I always forgot. Sometimes programmed the phone timer so I would remember.
Afternoon snack- also easy again, just ate my own or splurged and had some small treat (peanut butter and choc cookies were my favorite, etc)
Dinner- same issue as lunch, just needed to eat at a place that had something I could eat.
Evening snack of 30 carbs I ate at the hotel usually and I kept our fridge stocked with lots of goodies. I needed to NOT eat fruit before bed, it messed up my sleep and my numbers in the middle of the night. Cheese and crackers, small sandwich, peanut butter with something, etc. If i tried to have something sweet, milk, fruit or whatever I tended to wake up and feel icky. There is nothing worse than waking up and feeling disoriented/sick because your numbers are low. I've had it happen several times when I have cheated and it is not fun! Having it out of town would be worse. It was easy for me to avoid as long as I ate the high protein with the carb right before bed. I've never had it happen when I have done that.
As your pregnancy goes along many people switch to needing other things. Every week I call my numbers in and they adjust my plan accordingly.
Many times they try by diet alone, then sometimes low dose glyburide with you taking it only 60 minutes before you eat and then sometimes insulin. There are many different degrees of how much glyburide can help so you don't always jump straight to insulin. Glyburide in the newer one so more people know of insulin.
Anyway, I am currently in week 38 of my pregnancy and this is my current plan. If you had this plan at the time of your trip you might want to plan more since this is much more complicated scheduling wise!!!
I only made it 2 weeks of trying it with diet alone and jumped to using meds, and in the beginning I didn't take as much and the schedule wasn't as demanding but here is the current deal.
Wake up and test.
Take 3 pills and then can't eat carbs for 90 minutes, this is a huge pain since I am hungry. My trick is to wake uo in the middle of the night and take my pills, do my fasting then go back to sleep for the 90 minutes and then straight away eat. If I were going out to eat, this would be inconveient since I need to eat 90 minutes AFTER the pills. Then, test an hour after.
Morning snack no big deal.
Lunch- I have to take a pill 60 minutes before I want to eat. Once again, I have to know WHEN food will be going into my mouth an hour later so takes some planning. Test an hour later.
Afternoon snack no big deal.
Dinner- I have to take pills 90 minutes ahead of time again. I have to really PLAN dinner. If we show up at a restaurant and it is busy and I won't be able to eat soon after the 90 minutes my numbers dip low and I end up eating a snack so I don't feel sick. Eating at home is easy because if we run behind schedule I can always eat and feed everyone else later, but out to eat is much fussier. If the restaurant is faster than I expect I end up sitting aorund letting others eat because I can't eat before the 90 minutes are up!
Bedtime snack: even more important now to eat a high protein/carb snack.
Insulin has the benefit that you don't have to plan your meals out so far, it works much faster so less of a time inconveniece just FYI.
In the beginning they asked us to track the foods we ate so below you will be the quickie chart that helped me. I deleted all the exact time and the meds. It won't take long for you to figure out what works for you.
Hope you have a great pregnancy!
Jenn
Fasting time:
Fasting score:
Foods Eaten
Breakfast-up to 30
Time:
Test time:
Test score:
Morning snack-30/ can have fruit
Time:
Lunch- 30
Time:
Test time:
Test score:
Afternoon Snack- 30 can have fruit
Time:
Dinner- 30
Time:
Test time:
Test score:
Bedtime Snack 30 grams. Take snack and medicine same time.
*** If numbers are less than 65 then take 15 grams of juice, milk or glucose tablets and test again in 15 minutes.
