27 Weeks

I’m 27 weeks pregnant today. Only 13 weeks left! I was ironically talking last week about how I haven’t had any type of health issues during this pregnancy and have felt great the whole time. My doctor’s office called a few days ago and said I was slightly anemic (my iron was low) and my glucose was slightly high after the 1-hour glucose test. I was very surprised because I think I eat a pretty healthy diet. I eat a lot of vegetables and good proteins. Anyway, I started taking an iron supplement, which is no big deal and I will have to do the 3-hour glucose tolerance test to check if the first test was just a fluke. I read online that it is very common to have false positives on the 1-hour test, because it is so strict. So, most women who need to take the 3-hour test find out that they do not have a glucose problem, so I hope that is also the case with me. I also checked my own blood glucose with my mom’s glucose monitor. I checked it 3 times: before I ate, after I ate and later at night. My fasting glucose was 78, which is lower than the average range, the other 2 numbers were 90 something, which is still very low, especially after eating, so that is strange.

I’ll have this test next Wednesday. It is a lot more involved than the 1-hour test. My instructions are to eat normally (above 150 carbs) for the 3 days prior to the test. Then I will fast starting at 10pm the day before the test. The test is at 8am the next morning. I will go into the lab and they will take a blood sample after fasting. Then I will drink this high glucose drink and wait in the lab while they take 3 more blood samples at 1 hour, 2 hours and 3 hours after the glucose drink. So, I’ll be in the lab about 4 hours. Fun stuff.

Nothing else is really new with the pregnancy. It is getting harder for me to put my shoes on, which is such a weird experience. Our baby girl is still kicking every day, but I haven’t had any movements that I can see visually. I’ve heard that you can sometimes actually see your belly move and change shape as the baby moves, but I haven’t experienced that yet. We have our 3rd Lamaze class tonight. The class is 4 weeks long, 3 hours each class. Next week I start going to the chiropractor and the week after that, we will have the tour of the birthing center, which I’m very excited to attend.

One amazing thing that happened last week is that I put an ad on freecycle to ask if anyone had any baby girl clothes they didn’t need or wanted to get rid of. I got an email from a very nice lady who said she’d like me to give me all of her 3-12 month baby girl clothes! So, I met her and she gave me 3 large boxes of clothing! She has 2 daughters and the youngest no longer fits in any of them, so she wanted to get rid of them. The clothing includes onesies, pants, shirt, jackets, socks, hats, 4 pairs of little shoes, and a few swimsuits. They are definitely used, but most of them are very cute. I think that wonderful lady probably saved me a few hundred dollars! A few items I will probably donate, like there is a cute shirt that says “Kiss Me I’m Irish”, but there is not a speck of Irish in either of my husband or I, so yeah, I probably don’t want that one 🙂 but I will definitely use everything else.