Abigail: 6
Brenna: 2
Taylor: 1
Tiegan: 0
Isabella: 1
We really like Abigail too, so this was a nice surprise to see so many people agree with us :)
After being on the special high carb diet all weekend, I went into the doctors office's lab Monday morning and started my three hour glucose testing. I had my blood drawn right when I got there around 8:00am. Afterwards, they had me drink a bottle of glucola (in 5 minutes this time instead of 10) and rest for an hour. Then they took my blood again and sent me back to the small room with a TV, movies and a recliner for another hour. I spent that time watching the first hour of "The Babysitter's Club" movie while I waited for my next blood draw. Lucky me, the movie got over with just in time for my 4th and final blood draw of the day. Matt brought me a peanut butter sandwich when he came to pick me up knowing I would be starving since I had to fast all night and the whole morning. We were optimistic and spent the rest of the day not thinking much of the results.
This afternoon I got the call from the doctor's office saying that I did fail 2 out of 4 blood draws. This means that yes, I do have gestational diabetes. Sure I'm pretty devastated, but I'm trying to look at the upsides of this situation.
1. It should/will go away after the baby is born
2. I only have a few more months left to go, so I won't have to deal with it much.
3. It will jump-start me into eating healthy again. A habit that was left curbside once I started getting morning sickness and just ate what I could.
So far that's all I have, but I'm sure more will come. The nurse said that she was sending a prescription for my monitor and "supplies" that Matt and I will pick up tomorrow before we go to our appointment to meet with a diabetes/nutrition counselor. I hope all our questions will be answered during that appointment. It's pretty scary to not only have this, but to already have your unborn baby be at risk for diabetes later in life. I'll blog tomorrow with what we learned at the appointment and what I have to do to control this. Also, I'll be adding a new name poll tomorrow too.
We had our first childbirth preparation class tonight. I didn't learn much that I didn't already know. I have been reading books, blogs and websites for months on childbirth and pregnancy so I doubt much will be said that I haven't at least heard of. The instructor went over the anatomy of pregnancy, getting ready for labor, warning signs of labor, the different stages of labor, coping with discomfort and at the very end we got on the floor with our pillows and did some relaxation practice and slow deep breathing practice. My tail bone and hips were KILLING me by the time we had to get on the floor. So needless to say, I was not doing my relaxation stuff. I was just waiting for it to be over so I could practice at home where I would be more comfortable.
Once we got home and ate some dinner, Matt got online only to see a strange email from me. Apparently my email account got hacked...again! So I'm working on trying to do something about my email without changing my email address on top of everything else.
Overall today has been a mixed bag of strangeness. With any luck, tomorrow will be one of answers and confidence. I'll make sure to blog tomorrow night about what we learned at our appointment.
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