Pregnancy Update

Well, I'm almost 29 weeks now.  I don't have an updated photo.  I usually take them on Sundays when I dress up but we've been sick the last couple of weeks so I haven't taken one.  But I'll be going this Sunday, hopefully, so I can do another pic.  I feel like she is already huge and I can barely breathe.  So onto some fun stuff (sarcasm should be detected).  I took the one hour glucose tolerance test around 27 weeks and the results came back a little high so my doctor said I had to go in and do the 3 hour one at the hospital.  I felt really gross most of the time but I brought my laptop and Gilmore Girls and it went by fairly quickly.  Although I arrived at the hospital at 7:30, as per my doctor's instructions, only to discover that no order for my test had been sent over so we had to wait until they opened at 8 and then had to wait some more for them to fax it over.  So I basically spent an extra hour in the awesome hospital lobby waiting for the test to start.  But they had a reclining chair set up just for expectant mothers so I set myself up nice and comfy.

Well, that three hour test was a week ago and I hadn't gotten any call from my doctor so I was going to call today when he finally called this morning.  It was a little annoying that the first thing he said was 'I've been trying to get a hold of you' when I had had my phone glued to my side for a week with no calls.  So whatever, doc!  Anyway, my test results we abnormal so now I guess I technically have gestational diabetes.  Yay!  Not.  What that basically means is that I have to limit carbs, especially the type of carb, and take blood sugar measurements four times a day.  Here's my kind of cute blood sugar reader thing:

The thought of having to prick my finger four times a day is not great but I have a feeling I'll get real comfortable with it real soon.  I'm going in tomorrow so the nurse can show me how to use it but I think already know after reading the instructions.

My numbers are not too far off the normal range so my doctor is optimistic that I'll be able to control it just by diet changes.  If I can't, then we'll have to talk about early delivery, etc. because the main problem with having gestational diabetes is that the baby will be huge and it'll increase the chances of having a c-section and going into preterm labor.  I don't think the diet changes should be too hard - once I found out I failed the first glucose test I've already been trying to modify my diet.  It's just combining carbs and protein and fat in all the right amounts.  And I'm not a huge fan of meat so I'll have to get creative on what to cook for protein.

Huge babies already run in my family so I'm not sure how this condition will affect that.  Brady is freaking out that the baby is going to be super early while he's still doing class (I probably will be too, for that matter) so he is all for he new diet.  But my doc already likes to induce at 39 weeks, as long as your favorable, so this baby might be coming early.  Of course, she'll probably be late but we'll see.