First Glucose Test

I have a roller coaster of emotions going on right now. First let me say, the baby is fine. I however am going down the same path of gestational diabetes. Michael and I pressured the doctor into an earlier than normal glucose test. I am 18 weeks and they normally test at 24 weeks. He listened and respected our wishes, which is one of the reasons I like this doctor. He didn’t poo-pah his patient’s intuition and go only by statistics.

This morning I went in at 7:30. It was a 1 hour test. I had to fast, so I went in as early as I could. I went in and they took my blood sugar. I drank some pure glucose liquid stuff and in 1 hour they took my blood sugar level again. The poor guy “Goose” had to stick me 6 times. My results came back with a very high number of 174 for blood sugar. Normal people would be around 100, give or take. Basically my body has stopped making insulin to preserve blood sugar for the baby. Well.... isn't that special. Mother Nature built in this response to make sure women have healthy happy babies even if food is limited.

I go back Monday for the 3 hour test. Lovely. I knew this would be the case, but for some reason I’m upset about it. I need to focus on the fact that the baby is fine.

By the way – we opted not to have the amniocentesis. I thought I had said something about that earlier but it was brought to my attention that I forgot.