Oh HAPPY day!

Oh it was such a happy, happy, happy day yesterday.




Friday I went through my 3 hour glucose test. I still have the bruises from the 4 needles to prove it several days later. Monday I kept waiting and waiting for that call telling me all was the same as last time and I had GD.

Well at 4pm, still no call. But I was out of town so I thought, well they have left me message somewhere else with the news. So I call my Dr. office and leave a message that I am out of town and to please call my cell with the lab results.

30 mins later I get a call from the Dr. office and they leave a message. I still have the message saved because I like hearing it. It said" Hi! This is Amy with Dr. L's office, everything from your lab results came back totally normal. Congratulations. You don't have gestational diabetes"

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!

I was so happy to get that news. On so many levels. No extra dr. appts, no weekly non-stress tests, no weekly sonograms, no daily poking my fingers numerous times, no taking meds that I really don't want to because I'm pregnant. So many reasons.

Mid week update

I weight again this morning, just to peek and see if I was right about last week's eating out contributing to my extra gain. I think I was! I weight 198.4 this morning.

I am currently 22.4 up from my low of 176 last fall. That is 22.4 lbs @ 26.6 weeks PG.

I have a 3 hour glucose test this week. I'm not looking forward to it, but the Dr. says they will get everything they need to know from the 3 hour test this one time instead of a 1 hour test again, and then maybe having to take the 3 hour test after that.

I'm still crossing my fingers that I won't have GD this time. I just read something in this article that I have a 30 to 84% chance of developing GD again with this pregnancy. 30-84% ...that is a pretty wide range.

I have also read on line several places of ladies not developing GD with the 2nd PG. So I will remain hopeful.

Moving on up

That is what my scale is doing...movin' on up. I am at 200.2 officially on my bathroom scale. I have a 3 hour glucose test on friday..yuck! The Dr. and I agreed to forgo another 1 hour test and skip straight to the 3 hour test. so not fun, but a 1 hour test then another 3 hour test is really not fun.

I think I'm up 4.2 lbs from my last official blog weigh in, but that was several weeks ago. I'm just 6 lbs shy of my heighest pregnancy weight. I really don't want to much past that, but looks like I might.

I am also hoping this extra gain is due to being out of our house for about 1 week, due to some home renovations. We ate out most every meal, so maybe this will go down some by next week.

Gestational Diabetes

I just came across this news article on the rise of diabetes in pregnancy. I still need to give it a thorough read through, but since I am looking at another test for gestational diabetes in the next few weeks I thought it was worth posting here too.

I forgot to weigh in this morning. I will try and get that number tomorrow. I have another Dr. appt this week so I will be curious to see what their numbers are compared to mine.

Weekly Weighin

This week's weighin was 196. Not too bad from what I can remember, but I will have to go back and check the "official" weigh in from last week.

I will confess I have falling off the healthy living wagon. I have noticed I am eating lots of carbs and little veggies and almost no fruit to speak of. This weekend was a little better. I had some apples and hubby bought some watermelon at the store that was so good. I went back today and got some more watermelon for myself.

So maybe being aware of it is the first step in correcting it. This week at the grocery store I bought a little more fruit than normal and a few more veggies. I am planning to take some of the fruit and veggies to work with me. I did notice, as Summer pointed out, the prices have been going up at the store.

Weekly weigh in

I missed Monday and Tuesday, but I finally remembered today. I weighed in at 194.8. This a 1.4 gain from last monday. Steadily moving up. Oh well we will see.

I'm getting bigger and bigger on the pregnancy front...baby's growing.

Allergies are kicking my booty right this second so I'm slow on the uptake today. eyes watery, nose sneezy, body tired.

Weekly weigh in

Well I'm still gaining, but it is slowing down and more steady. After my 3 lb jump I was alittle bummed. I have been keeping up with walking at least twice a week, at a minimum. I'm starting to feel bigger and move slower. This isn't about how fast I can move though...it is just about moving in general.

So this week's official weigh in was 193.4...how I keep hitting that .4 everything I just don't know.