Had our 26 week appointment this morning, and everything looks good. Baby - about the size of an eggplant. Mom's reasonable weight gain - check! Tummy measurement - right in line with the standards! (even though he feels like an alien trying to push his way out most days!) Baby's heartbeat - excellent! Glucose level - ummmm....well....I did have another petit four right before bed last night. I swear.....I never eat sugar and now that is all BBB wants, and I get reprimanded for it!
In one week, I begin my third trimester (cannot fathom that right now). And in two weeks, we go back in for a sonogram and a glucose test to test for gestational diabetes. I have been advised to not eat sugar for 1-2 days prior.
On my honor, I will try to not eat sugar (but it is going to be really hard :)).
They say you know your body best, and I have never been a big "sweet" person because it usually leaves me feeling fuzzy-headed. It's not a taste thing because who doesn't love something sweet and delicious!? It is a "it doesn't make me feel well afterwards so why do it?" kind of a thing. I have never felt that I process sugar like other people do. But ever since the second half of my second trimester, I have started craving everything sweet in sight. I wasn't getting headaches or a fuzzy head, so I just assumed that pregnancy had adapted my body to process the sugar properly. Evidently not if a petit four from the night before sends up a red flag. Oh well....we will see what the results of the glucose test return and go from there. In the meantime, I suppose I will just have to stifle my sweet tooth.
(Also...update on the bedskirt...came back from the tailor, and it looks great! Crisis averted!)
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