Too many cookies?

"Well this last doctor's visit went well, though I'm still waiting to hear about my glucose test . . .

BITBs heartbeat is still going strong, and my belly measures 25 cm versus my 27 weeks gestation so possibly this baby is going to be smaller, late in delivery, or really going to grow in the next 13 weeks. THIRTEEN WEEKS??? Ahhhhhh

Generally, a pregnant woman's belly will measure in cm the same as her weeks in gestation. A few digits off isn't a bad sign, but it will be interesting to see how much more it grows in these next two weeks before I head back for another check up.

My appointments are now going to be every two to three weeks instead of once a month. All these signs keep pointing out that the end is near. And getting closer . . . eeeep. With the holiday's coming up and our traveling for Thanksgiving my next two appointments will be in two and in four weeks, I'm interested to see belly growth and weight gain.

In this past appointment I gained another 5 pounds. In total that's 15 lbs. so far. Half of what I gained with Jackson. At this rate (7 lbs in 4 weeks, 5 lbs in 3, approximately 1.71 pounds a week . . .) it's possible that I'll gain 22 more pounds???? Totaling 37 all together. Maybe I'll stop eating all that candy (it's almost all gone anyway), especially if I'm measuring small in the belly, but weighing more on the scales . . .

Speaking of all that sugar. I am a little nervous about this glucose test. I took it on Thursday. On Friday I went up to Seattle to see my sister-in-law's wedding dress (so beautiful) and the store clerk struck up a conversation with me about having kids, pregnancy, etc. Well, turns out she had gestational diabetes and that her doctors suspected right away when she said that the orange drink they give you to drink wasn't bad at all. . . I got worried because with Jackson it was a pain to gulp down in 5 min, and this time I did just fine. It still tasted sweet to me, but not as terrible as I remembered. Is that an indicator for me? Or maybe I just hyped the bad taste of the drink up beyond what it really was.

Here's how Babycenter.com describes the testing process: 'To screen for gestational diabetes, you will take a test called the oral glucose tolerance test. This test involves quickly drinking a sweetened liquid, which contains 50g of sugar. The body absorbs this sugar rapidly, causing blood sugar levels to rise within 30-60 minutes. A blood sample will be taken from a vein in your arm 1 hour after drinking the solution. The blood test measures how the sugar solution was metabolized (processed by the body).

A blood sugar level greater than or equal to 140mg/dL is recognized as abnormal. If your results are abnormal based on the oral glucose tolerance test, another test will be given after fasting for several hours.

In women at high risk of developing gestational diabetes, a normal screening test result is followed up with another screening test at 24-28 weeks for confirmation of the diagnosis.'

I checked our phone for messages last night and there was a call from my doctors. Very uninformative (but I guess leaving medical information on an answering machine is not allowed) and only saying, please give us a call back. Ahhhhh! I immediate jumped to the conclusion that I failed the test and all that candy I ate and cookies I made did me in.

But then I remembered that my nurse also took blood to check for anemia, which I ended up having with Jackson, and THAT could very well be what the call was all about. Unfortunately, I have to wait until Monday, 8 am before I can find out the real reason they called . . . and in the mean time I'm staying away from sugar and eating lots of iron fortified foods! I should have been doing a better job with my diet anyway, sigh . . . "
--Clare