7 Month Appointment

Yesterday I had my 7ish month OB appointment, the one where I drink the yucky sugar water and they test my blood sugar. Well, I have never had high blood sugar before so I didn't think anything of the test so I went about my day business as usual and one hour before the test I drank the yucky stuff and didn't have anything else til my appointment.... ...well I guess the cutoff between high and low blood sugar in pregnancy is 140, well my score was 145. I thought rats a little high but maybe b/c I ate french toast w/ tons of syrup and drank 2 pops that morning. I will admit that I haven't been watching what I eat like I do normally but I allowed myself to cheat b/c that is one thing you can do in pregnancy that feels so good I think. Well, today was my wake up call. Dr. Miller informed me that i needed to go up to the hospital in the next few days to take a 3 hour glucose screening. WHAT?!!?!? I got pretty concerned then and felt even worse about it as the day wore on. More about that in a minute cause there was a SUPER highlight!! We got to see Baby Girl today!!! We had a sonogram to check the position of my placenta and good news it has moved and is now where it is supposed to me. you KNOW Heath was doing cartwheels when he got that news... not that "it" is going to happen for him any time soon!! That doesn't sound fun to me at all!! So our girl was just sleeping away not really moving too much. She did open and close her mouth so that was cute but the only other thing she had going on were her legs... it was like she was on her back doing the bicycle! Her knees were in her face and her feet were above her head. Our little gymnast has just proven that she is SUPA flexible!!! It was adorable and so fun to see her today even if she wasn't showing off for us (the lady was really shaking my belly to wake her up but she wasn't having it!!)

After the appointment I read the paper the Dr. gave me on the 3 hour test. I guess you can't leave the hospital for 5 hours, you have to sit outside the lab, and nothing to eat or drink for almost 17 hours total!! WHAT???? How on EARTH can they expect a pregnant lady to go into that willingly??? NOT I!! Oh and did I mention they draw blood 3-4 times alternating arms, of course while you drink more yucky stuff and if you barf TOO BAD the results are voided and you have to take the test all over again!!! That was just it for me...I was so upset I got a little teary just at the thought of going through all of that! This doesn't even take into consideration sitting in a chair for 5 hours ---my back is like WHOA after 10 minutes and doing this over the weekend on my day off after going back to school!! Too much to even think about!! After doing some research online (I bet drs. LOVE that patients have so much access to medical information ;) I found out that 145 is barely over the limit and that would be a reason to ask for a retest b/c every site I went to said to avoid the 3hour if possible cause it is HORRID!!! So I called and they were like sure we can retest you at your next appt in 2 weeks! (I'm in my 3rd trimester and going every 2 weeks now!! YAY!!) That easy?!?!? Let this be a lesson to us all that is doesn't hurt to ask!!! So I am going to be really careful about what I take in for the rest of my pregnancy and get lots of exercise (KG good thing we start back to spin Monday!!). And since he released me to pretty much all exercise b/c my placenta is in good shape the girls and I got dressed and headed up to the track at Sonner Stadium.

My goal was 2 miles and i did it pretty easily. I walked the straights and jogged the curves. I'm glad there weren't any other runners up there at the time we were cause I probably looked kinda funny bobbling along!!! It felt good to do a little jogging again and I know it may sound crazy to jog this late in pregnancy but I am a runner so for me it is pretty natural!

I was so proud of my little Adler. She decided she wanted to do 2 miles too so she did and was very happy with herself after! Chel was bored to tears after sprinting a lap and then pooping out!! Crosby ran around a couple of times and then took off her shoes and socks and ran through the sprinklers!!! She also put on a little horse race show for us after the run. we sat in the stadium while her horses (Paper, Plastic, Coco, and Marked!!) ran the race. Coco won the race of course!!

Then one last pic on the rock on the way out. How can I turn them down when they are asking to get their pictures taken??? Love those girls!!!