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...
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