28 weeks and GOOD NEWS!!! :)

Sep 13, 2012

Hello, friends!

I'm now 28 weeks and 2 days pregnant. I'm finally in the last trimester and just a little more than 11.5 weeks to go! WOW!

I just wanted to update on how my last checkup with my doctor went. Everything looks really good. Doctor had one heck of a time getting baby's heartbeat, but only because my little champ was squirming around so much. Doc would get the heartbeat for half a second and Izaak would move away, he'd find it again, and Izaak would move again. LOL At one point, my baby boy kicked the doppler probe straight on as if he was protesting it jabbing him. Doc did finally pin the heartbeat down for a few seconds and it sounded great. Still in the 140's as it has been pretty much the whole time. Doc says I'm measuring good, but did agree that we'll set up a growth ultrasound after my next appointment which is on the 24th. I'll be seeing him every two weeks now which is another sign that the time is drawing near to when I'll get to meet my little boy!

I also did my modified glucose tolerance  testing to check for Gestational Diabetes. In a normal GTT, you go in fasting, they draw a vial of blood to get your baseline glucose levels, then they have you drink 8oz of a VERY sugary drink - something like 50g of sugar in the small bottle and then they take your blood again an hour later to see how your blood sugar reacts. This is why my doctor and I came up with a modified plan of action. I was certain that the drink would have caused me to dump so badly I'd be wishing death upon myself. After having done the modified plan, I'm even more confident that would have been true. So in my modified test, I was not required to be fasting, but they still took a vial of blood to get my baseline levels and they also checked my A1C to see what my sugars have been doing over the last 3 months. Afterward, I ate a candy bar. I picked a Milky Way Midnight because dark chocolate is much less sickeneningly sweet than milk chocolate. The candy bar had 29g of sugar. Almost half of what the glucose drink is and it still made me feel like crud. I had my blood drawn an hour after finishing the candy bar and that was that.

GOOD NEWS! I called my doctor on Monday to see how the test results looked. I was very curious because even though I've had RNY and it's a cure for Type II diabetes, I wasn't sure if it would affect my likelihood of contracting Gestational Diabetes. I was borderline diabetic with my first pregnancy, so I just wasn't sure how it was going to play out. Well - turns out my glucose tolerance was NORMAL! Yay! No GD!!!! No 3 hour GTT needed! I'm so happy that I do not have to deal with the ONE pregnancy complication that I had during my first pregnancy. :)

On another note, I am having a hard time with school. As I said in my last post, all of my classes seem to be pretty "easy" and that holds true. However, I have NO energy! I'm drained from pregnancy, from motherhood, keeping up with my domestic duties, keeping up with all my appointments (which are now even more frequent), and keeping up with school work. I have also been sick the last week which I'm sure hasn't helped, but it has been extremely difficult to get out of bed and go to class and I am lacking focus in the classes I do attend because I'm just so tired. So I've been in contact with the department of student services and asking what my best options are. If I can do so without owing the school or the government a whole bunch of money right away, I'm pretty sure I'll be making a full withdraw from this semester and returning next semester after baby is born - though I'm certain I'll do all online classes next semester (or as many as I can).

Well, that's my update. I'll be back after our next ultrasound to share pics and give an update - unless something important comes up before then.

Love you all!

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