I had my glucose test today and surprise, surprise, I failed! By two lousy points. So now I have to make yet another trip to the Doctors office, this time for the 3 hour screening. I completely expected not to pass this test, the way this pregnancy has gone it wouldn't have seemed right to have passed. The whole not eating thing really messes me up, I was sick and in the bathroom at the Doctors office this morning before I even drank that "syrupy goodness."
When I was pregnant with the Munchkin, I got sick, passed out, woke up in the floor of the nurses station vomiting into a trash can. I of course had to repeat that 1 hour test because there was nothing left in my system, then I failed and had to go back to take the 3 hour, and passed.
Me + glucose test = Not good!
Side bar: The real reason they are concerned about gestational diabetes is because in a full term pregnancy the baby will be huge.... If I'm not going to be full term, in fact they will most likely be about 10 weeks PRE-mature, isn't a bigger baby better? Just a thought.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Par for the Course.
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Yuck. Yuck. Triple yuck.
a life-long (almost) hypoglycemic, I have the same history with the pregnancy glucose tests. I always failed the 1 hour by just a FEW points, but then passed the 3 hour torture one.
While pregnant with Lucky (#2 and LAST one), I "prepared" for the test by abstaining from orange juice and sweets for a few weeks (and STILL failed the 1 hr test!) The Mighty Hunter accused me of cheating. He has no idea how close he came to dying for making that accusation.
Good luck with the test and the babies!
Yeah, I failed the glucose test too. I'm just not good at tests, apparently.
The three-hour test sucks. I looked like I was beaten up by thugs afterwards, since I bruise the second a needle approaches me.
Oh, that orange stuff is like liquid disgust. Good luck. I had to check my blood at every meal when I was pg. It's sucky sucky.
that stuff is so nasty! I had gestational diabetes w/ both girls (I'm a hypoglycemic, too). Daughter #1 was 9 lbs. 10 oz., Daughter #2 was 10 lbs. 2 oz. (two weeks early). Bigger isn't always better. Daughter #2 spent 3 days in NICU w/ breathing problems, jaundice, you name it. It was really weird. She was GIGANTIC and looked like a 6-month old compared to the really, really preemie babies. I'm crying my eyes out and those parents were looking at me like, "What the hell is wrong w/ your big fat baby???"
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