Strange Pregnancy Stuff...

Glucose Testing:

This last week I went in to my regular doctor's appt. for my 28 week glucose test (pregancy test where they check your blood sugar level to make sure everything is good at 28 weeks). The girl from the office who makes the confirmation calls the day before just told me to not eat sugar that day...so I didn't, and my appt. wasn't until 3:30 that afternoon. I went in there and had my blood taken when the nurse told me that it didn't really matter if I had eaten sugar or not, that it wouldn't throw the test results off, I was a little confused, but whatever. So the next day I get a call from my doctor saying that my blood sugar was too high! WHAT??? I know I didn't throw that test off...so then she tells me I have to go in for a 3 hour glucose test to  see if it's gestational diabetes (basically pregnancy diabetes). I was so bummed since I hated the one hour test, now I had to go for 3! The lab where the test was administered was 40 minutes away in Fernandina Beach FL, and I had to be there by 7:30am, with Skylee since Ryan was out at sea that day. Skylee and I got there prepared for a long morning, I brought the portable DVD player, lots of DVDs to choose from, coloring books, crayons, books, and snacks. I had to fast the night before and right when I got there she took the first sample of my blood, gave me the nasty sugar drink and waited for the first hour to be done. Skylee was such a trooper that day, she was great! I had to get my blood drawn a total of 4 times in those 3 hours...pretty much torture for me, but I'm a live and have a gnarly bruise to show for it! I'm really praying that everything is fine, I should have the test results back on Tuesday. If they call Monday with the results, I'm not answering the phone, that way they can't tell me to cut the sugar out of my diet (it's my b-day, and I WILL have cake!)  I won't be breaking any rules :) 

Preterm Labor?

This pregnancy I've had a lot of Braxton Hicks (normal,hardening contractions), they've started earlier and are more frequent with this pregnancy than with Skylee's. At times they have been so frequent that I wondered if it was normal or if they were something I should talk to my doctor about. At my appointment this week, I asked when I should start to be concerned about them. I was told that if I had 4 in an hour, to call the office. So, Friday night I had 4 in an hour...didn't call, I knew I was fine. Saturday morning 9am, 4 within 15 mins, about 15 that hour...so I called. The woman who was on-call said that I needed to drink lots of water and see if they continued. If they did she told me to go straight to "Labor and Delivery" and skip the "ER". We went out to breakfast and they were constant! Got home, still constant. 4 hours had gone by since the last phone call, they had slowed but still more than 4 an hour. This time they told me that if they were consistent (same time in between each contraction) then I needed to go in. Even though the first person told me to go in, I knew it wasn't anything serious, and I would feel totally silly going in at 29 weeks, I just knew the hospital would look at me funny and send me home. Although my contractions were still more than 4 an hour, they weren't consistent, so I just rested at home. And, I'm fine! I have no doubts that this baby will be born at full term (after 37 weeks) but maybe earlier than my planned induction at 39 weeks!