Name Poll, Oregon Trip and Pregnancy Update

Hello All!

We hope you are having a great week so far. I wanted to update you on the new name poll I added to the page. In case you didn't see the results of the last poll here they are:

Cadence: 0
Callie: 1
Daisy: 3
Elly: 2
Gabriella: 4

Gabriella was the winner for the last poll, so that name will go onto a separate list that will be included in a "final name poll" later on. It's fun for us to see everyone's opinions of the names we like!!

Matt and I bought our airline tickets last week for our Oregon trip in October. Oregon in October. I'm pretty excited!! I don't know if I have ever seen a "real" fall in my life. Fall here in Alaska isn't very long, and the only colors we seem to get are yellow and brown because of the amount of birch trees. Sometimes, if your lucky, you will see a tree that has red leaves, but not often enough. Our temperature goes from the 60's to the 40's almost overnight, so not much cool weather, just warm then cold. We will be in Oregon from October 20th to October 25th. We have to fly during the day both times because now that I'm pregnant, I get sick if I stay up too late while I'm stressed and nervous. So we won't be in until later in the evening of October 20th. It will be nice to see everyone again :D

On the pregnancy front, things are going good. The baby is more active now than ever. She seems to almost never sleep. Always moving around and kicking. You can see her kicking now if you stare at my stomach, that's pretty interesting! My next doctor's appointment is next Tuesday (October 5th). This is my last prenatal testing appointment and it's a pretty big one. They will be doing the Glucose tolerance test. It will determine if I have gestational diabetes. In a nutshell, I will have to drink a bottle of Glucola (flavored sugary drink) and an hour later they take blood for testing. I'm pretty nervous about it because if I fail the test, I have to do it again but instead of waiting an hour, I have to wait three hours before they can take my blood and I have to wait at the doctor's office. If I fail the three hour, it's pretty clear I have gestational diabetes. Worst case, I will have to watch my diet and inject myself with insulin, just like a diabetic. Best case, I will just have to watch my diet and calorie intake. On the upside, it does go away after the baby is born, but if/when we have another child, I have more of a chance of developing it again. Gestational diabetes is not good for me, but it's really not good for the pregnancy and the baby. It can cause me to go into pre term labor, the baby can get too big for a natural birth and I will have to do a scheduled C-section...it's just all around not a good thing. Overall, we hope I'll pass the one hour test and not have to deal with any of it.
I am officially to the point in pregnancy where I'm hungry all the time. It's getting tougher to control my eating and what I'm eating. Drinking water, juice or milk doesn't help curb my appetite either like it used to. I'm a little afraid of what the scale is going to say at my next appointment.
Lastly, Matt and I signed up for our birthing classes. I'm pretty excited about it, I really am anxious to  learn about the hospital, and what my options are as far as labor, birth and delivery. The hospital I will be delivering at is new to us, we have never been in it before. Everyone I know has had their babies in Anchorage. We will have class October 12th, 19th and 26th. We opted for the three part series rather than the one day class so we have more time to comprehend the information and have more time to ask questions. That's the reason why we are coming back on October 25th from Oregon because we have our final birthing class the next night.

That's it for now. Don't forget to vote on the new name poll. You have until October 6th to vote :D

Have a great rest of the week!