Winter Worries from a Pregnant lady......

I'm not a winter person. I don't like being cold. I don't like getting out of bed when it's dark and cold out to take a shower or a bath before work...or before bed. I don't like blow drying my hair. I don't like bundling up or putting on boots. I don't like taking my time driving, because I'm usually running late.

Now imagine each one of those things I don't like about winter, and then imagine it with a 7 1\2 month pregnant belly.

How convenient, last night and today we got a lot of snow. Yay.

I'll admit, I haven't really been too cold yet, since my body is like an oven (maybe that's where they get the "bun in the oven" saying). But it's not as easy anymore to get out of the bath tub....especially if I have to wash my hair. And blow drying it? I like that my hair has grown so long, but blow drying now takes a half hour! Bundling up is fun when your coat fits like casing on a sausage, and boots....try putting a soccer ball on your lap and then bend over to put your boots on. Thank god mine are just the pull on kind and I don't have to tie or zip anything.

I saved driving for last, because it's more of a worry than a complaint or inconvenience. It never fails that every year I get stuck in a snow bank or on a road that's not plowed very good, like mine. Especially now that I've got a nice little fuel efficient, 4-door-so-it's-easier-to-load-a-car-seat car. I worried about driving in this fluffy white crap before, when I could dig or shovel myself out if I had to, or push even....now I better hope that I have my cell phone to call Aaron, or that some Good Samaritan (and not some wacko) will stop to help a crazy pregnant lady kicking snow at her car and swearing! Heaven forbid I'd have to walk home. So I slow down. And yes, I'm going to be late, so if I have to deal with it, so do you :)

29 week checkup

Last week I was back at the doctors office. Everything is still going well....except I was tested for a bladder infection. I told the doctor that the night before (and that morning) I was having some pains, but not really cramps.....so she said it might be my bladder. Could also be that they baby has turned around and pointed head down. He could be pushing on my bladder. But I've been fine since, so I'm not worried.
Just getting ready for Christmas!

Negative diabetes :)

The three hour test at the blood lab on Tuesday wasn't so bad. These people have lots of practice poking needles and taking blood. Sitting in the waiting the rest of the time was boring.....good think I took some "New Parent" magazines with me. And I called Hamot to sign up for a Baby Basics class and a Breastfeeding class next month.....

And the good news is, it was all worth it. My test results came in today and I am negative for gestational diabetes. I'll still watch how many Hershey kisses I have, but I'm glad I can still have them :)

Taking blood hurts!?!

Last Friday I had my glucose test at the doctor's office. I had to drink "glucola" which looks like orange kool-aid, but tastes much much sugarier. (Yes, I made that word up. Get over it!) The first nurse took a look at my arms and said she was going to get the other nurse, because she was much better at finding tiny veins and only having to poke once. I had no problem with that! If only it took once......as you can see, the first try left quite a bruise. And that's days later! The second poke, in my other arm, worked much better.

Or so I thought....until the nurse called me today to tell me that my glucose level was higher than normal :( The average is 130 or below, and mine was 134. Darn it I knew I shouldn't have eaten those Hershey Kisses that morning!!! So now I have to fast after 7:30pm tonite, nothing but water, and then go to the ACL Lab tomorrow morning at 7:50 and drink another "glucola" drink and let them poke my arm 3 more times. And it gets worse! They poke once every hour for 3 hours! I have to sit there and wait for 3 hours to go by while I'm starving and sugared up!

I'm just hoping that everything turns out ok and I don't end up having gestational diabetes. I've been told that (not only baby and I can develop diabetes later in life) this may lead to a bigger baby to deliver. I don't need any bigger than I'm already getting, so if it means no Hershey Kisses, I think I'll make the sacrafice.