Failure

Things still look good with the little beans. I had another appointment this morning and they both have grown and are looking good. I did, however, fail my 3 hour glucose tolerance test.

I went for the test last Thursday. It was a rainy morning, so the lab was pretty slow. I was in the waiting room by myself for almost the whole three hours because everyone that came in could go right back. I was a little nervous about drinking the solution. Not so much because of nausea - it was actually pretty good that day. But, I just am not a fast drinker. I sip things, all the time. I rarely get through a 12oz soda over the course of dinner that takes and hour. So, when I had to drink 10oz in 5 minutes, I didn't think I could do it. The lab lady just said do the best I can. I took a straw with me, and got it down in about 10 minutes. It actually tasted pretty good. And I felt pretty good the whole time. Just a little head spinning whenever I stood up to do back to the lab room each time. The only time I felt bad was when I came home and tried to eat. I'm not sure if I just chose the wrong thing, if my stomach was rebelling because it had been empty so long, or if my sugar just crashed while I was eating. I just stopped eating and laid down a bit, and it passed. So, since I felt ok during the test, I was thinking that maybe I passed.

The results weren't too bad. My fasting and 3 hour glucose were well within the limits. But my 1 hour was 8 points over the limit, and the 2 hour was 6 or so over. So with too abnormal limits, I failed. I think the RE isn't quite sure what to do with the results, since they aren't used to dealing with this. They're sending me to a nutritionist, but when I asked if I was going to have to start checking my sugars, they just said they didn't know and the OB usually deals with it.

So for now, I'm just going to avoid excessive sweets - cakes, cookies, ice cream. The ice cream will be the hardest. One of my cravings has been chocolate chip ice cream, and we have a bunch sitting in our freezer.

I have just one more visit with the RE and then I graduate. It's hard to believe that will happen in a little over a week!

A little too sweet

I had another Monday morning appointment this morning. Everything still looks great. Measuring well, good heart rates. We could even see them moving a bit this morning!

So this afternoon, I looked at my cell phone and had a missed call from "restricted," which 99% of the time is my RE office. When I listened to the message, apparently I had some glucose in my urine when they dipped it today. So, I get to go do my 3hr GTT at some point soon, probably this week. It should be fun trying to do that while still having some nausea off and on, and not being able to eat anything, which is the biggest help for the nausea. I actually had this happen the first time I went to the RE, just for my initial consult. I think they just did a routine urine dip at the beginning of the appointment, and it came back with 3+ glucose. They had me drink some water while I was there and try again before I left. And even with being there 4 hours, it still came back positive. So the RE wouldn't let me leave until I had an appointment with my family doctor the next day. Nothing came of it, though. There was no sugar in my urine the next day, my fasting glucose was fine, and my HgbA1C was fine. So, hopefully I'll have the same result this time, and nothing will come of it!

Still Here

I didn't realize how long it's been since I last posted! Everything is still going well. Our last appointment last Monday, the babies were doing well, measuring 8w2d, and we were 8w3d. I think I haven't post just because I've been so exhausted. I barely move once I get home. But, it must be helping somehow, because the hematoma was just about gone on Monday as well. You could still see it a little bit, but they didn't even measure it. I have three more appointments with them, and I scheduled my first OB appointment for the first week in June.

I finally managed to call my dad this week and tell him. I was nervous doing it, that somehow something would go wrong then, but I called him Monday afternoon, and so far everything's been ok. I've been more tired this week then I have been, though the nausea has eased up at times. I'm still extremely grateful for the Zofran. I don't know how I would function without it. But even still, I haven't managed to gain any weight. I try to eat a lot, but just can't manage to for some reason.

This post is just all over the place. I have such conflicting feelings about today - Mother's Day. It's been a hard day the past couple of years. This year, I feel like it should be easier - I'm 9 weeks pregnant. But I'm still in that "danger" part of the pregnancy. I don't have a baby in my arms yet.

There's already been a lot of talk at work about what's going to happen when I'm out. I'm the only one who does my job, so there isn't really anyone to replace me, and I'm not quite sure what's going to happen. The main purpose of my job it to be at the hospital for c-sections during the day so the pediatricians don't have to leave their offices to come to them. They functioned for years without me, but now they don't know what they're going to do when I'm on leave. But, I don't even know how long my OB is going to let me work, since I haven't even seen them yet, so it's been hard to tell them anything definite. I'd love to work as long as I can, but I commute an hour each way, so I have a feeling at some point around 32-34 weeks (as long as everything has gone ok) they might want me to stay home. We'll have to see.