U/S Day and 1 Hr GTT Results

The U/S went great... Peanut is measuring about a week bigger than I'm at right now, but the tech said that as you get further along the measurements become more inaccurate as far as gestational age...comforting, huh? She's measuring at 3lbs, 2oz...2 lbs bigger than the U/S on the 2nd of this month! They are pretty confident that it's a GIRL! WHOO HOO!!! She did the "money shot" and where she would normally see a penis if it were a boy, she saw lips... (lemme tell you how confused that made my mom when I said there were lips down there...she didn't get it at first...hehehehehe...I love you Mom!) I have to scan the image, but between that view and the view that the other tech had gotten, I'm ready to call it for the pink team! The EDD on the U/S says 3/11/06...only 8 days off from what the MD says...

When the U/S was done, I stopped in at my Dr's office since they are in the same building. I saw the nurse who then told me that I had failed my 1 hr GTT... Not only did I fail it, but because my numbers are so high, they aren't going to put me through the 3 hr GTT (thank God for small favors...). I was just about twice what they wanted for a fasting sample. (They wanted 80mg/dl, I was 150mg/dl) The results have been sent to the "Education Department" at the hospital who will contact me on Tuesday to set up a Nutritional Counseling appointment...they will try to control it with diet first (which sadly, I can tell you now won't work...I just can't eat everything that they want me to...too much food) and then they will have me checking my blood sugar four times a day. If by the January 11th appointment they are happy with the results, I'm good to go for diet control. If not, they're putting me on insulin.

As upset as I am about the GD, it certainly explains A LOT of the signs/symptoms I've been experiencing...

Possible *the* crib and an outfit :-)

This is the crib Mom and I are going to look at on Monday to see about getting for the Peanut! Whoo hoo!










This is an outfit that I found at Target today...I really am convinced that this is a girl and this outfit was too precious to pass up!!









And it's got cute little tights that go with it! There's a flower on each ankle!

Glucose Tolerance and Ultrasound

The glucose tolerance test SUCKED this morning. I wasn’t allowed to eat after 9pm last night…well, I couldn’t eat lunch yesterday because I had puked all morning…then, I was only able to eat half of my dinner (6pm) because it wouldn’t settle… So thinking that it was just nausea, I go to bed and am back up at 4:47 and RUNNING for the bathroom were I proceeded to puke my brains out... I fall back asleep at 6am and the alarm went off at 8. I get to the U/S and they check my gallbladder and the tech starts saying “hmmm” and “does this hurt when I push?”…when I tell her that I’ve had no pain and that the only pain I am currently feeling is from the wand in my rib cage she says “hmmm” again and then nothing else. As I’m walking out she tells me to expect a call from the Dr’s within a day or two. Not comforting. So I walk across the waiting room to the lab portion, get the sugar drink (which actually tasted pretty decent) and drink up. About a half hour after I drink it, I start getting the symptoms I had been complaining to the Dr about (lightheaded, dizzy, headache, hot flashes, etc)…then I pick up on the correlation. It’s almost always after I eat anything or consume anything. An hour passes and they draw my blood. She asks me how I’m feeling and I tell her…along with “I feel like I’ve been drinking all night”. She takes my blood, tells me to sit tight and leaves. She comes back in about 10 minutes later and asks if I was fasting… I tell her yes and she says that I need to go get something to eat. I told her that I live minutes away and that I was going to eat when I got home because the only thing between there and home was fast food and I can’t tolerate that lately…she then says that I shouldn’t leave unless someone was there to drive me – I manage to convince her that someone is outside (meanwhile there wasn’t) and leave...as she’s telling me to expect a phone call. So I don’t know if it was high, low or if she was just being stupid.

I went home, fell asleep ( can’t eat anything – managed to drink a glass of milk – that’s the best I’ve done... ) and got up and came to work... I feel shitty – hotter than heck, just overall yucky. If it doesn’t go away by morning, I’m going to call the Doc and see what he says.

But at least it's over for now...

27-28 Week Appointment

Heard the baby's heartbeat again...a sound I will never get tired of. I told the Nurse and the Doctor about my little "hot flash" incidents that I've been having and that combined with food tolerances (well...more intolerances) earned me a gallbladder ultrasound. Though I swear I am bring bribed...he also scheduled another obstetrical ultrasound which we'll have on the 30th. It's another chance to see Peanut, so I won't complain. I have to do the 1hr GTT sooner rather than later because of the symptoms I've been having...so that will be right after Christmas - Merry Christmas to me. :-P

I'm only up a 1/2 a pound...3 pounds total...YAHOO! They're still very happy with that...as am I!

I go back in three weeks...and then we will start on every two weeks for a month/month and a half and then weekly after that... It's hard to believe that in 12 weeks this will all be over!

Ultrasound

What a little brat child I have! :-) The tech kept looking and the baby would bend it's knees and place the feet right where he was trying to look - then, the baby would kick at the wand and you could feel him/her move until it was to the point the tech was chasing the baby with it! The last pass through he made, he/she decided to bend right in half just about and all you saw were hands and feet... So we don't know for sure... :-( But he said that after looking at everything he's "leaning towards a girl" but "can only say that with about 30% certainty"... Still, it didn't look like there was anything there. (hehehehe...he said it's either a little girl, or a little boy.) As of right now, she's breech... but with all the moving around she does, that can change. I'm 24w3d today, Peanut was measuring at 25w1d... 1lb12oz so far... Though he says the weight estimates techs give can vary one way or the other by 114oz (Oi) I have two pics (which I have to scan) that didn't come out TOO great - they have a wonderful machine, but a crappy printer, but all in all, a WONDERFUL experience! Scott got there JUST AS they started (he was across town when I called him and told him they had had a cancellation) and got to see the whole thing... The HR was measuring at 143bpm... (It was in the 140's yesterday, too, but has been measuring 150-160 every other day)...