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Pregnancy: 32/33 week appointment
Had my appointment yesterday at 32w 6d. Baby is STILL measuring large. Fundal height has me at 37 weeks, eeps! Total weight gain still isn’t much – maybe 15 lbs? Anyway, planning on scheduling a growth ultrasound for sometime next week to see what’s going on. Otherwise, blood sugar levels have remained nice and low, so the OB has been happy with how I’ve been controlling things with my diet. It’s still amazing to me to see what causes my sugar levels to go up in different foods. For example—I have a fairly high reading with a bowl of Fiber One cereal and some skim milk (like 130)….but if I…
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Pregnancy: 30 week appt
For the most part, pretty straight forward appointment. Can’t remember my total weight gain but it’s not much — I’m up in total maybe 12-14 lbs. Not much. Anyway, the big UGH is that I’m measuring large again—my fundal height measurement was 33.5. [sigh] Not doing anything about it now, will wait to see how it is at my next appointment, but it’s likely they’ll have me go in for a growth ultrasound. I’m extremely wary of growth ultrasounds as they have a reputation for having a high margin of error. We did one with Natalie when I was 40 weeks along and I was told she was some ginormous…
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Crazy couple of weeks
Man, it’s been a crazy few weeks. 1. GD Diagnosis, blargh On the pregnancy front, I had to endure the 3 hour glucose test which was NOT FUN. The test involves fasting from the night before – then coming in, getting your blood drawn, drinking an entire bottle of this nasty glucose drink, then getting your blood drawn again 1 hour later, 2 hours later and 3 hours later. Ugh. I never quite understood why it was that bad (since I’d only ever done the 1 hour) until I actually went through it myself. Not only are you totally starving (and pregnant women are ravenously hungry all the time as…