Gestational Diabetes and Bloodwork

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I think I mentioned that I took my one hour GD test last week. If you have no idea what I am talking about- during pregnancy women are routinely testing for gestational diabetes. The test involves drinking a big cup of this really syrupy orange drink and then having blood drawn an hour later to measure how your body has processed the sugar in it. The drink itself isn’t horrible but way too sweet- like to the point of making my stomach feel icky- and then I was just about bouncing out of my chair in the waiting room for the next hour.

Anyway, my doctor’s office called because they got my results. I PASSED! Apparently somewhere around 130 is “borderline” and I was at 70. So that’s good news. If you fail or get borderline results, you have to go back and take a three-hour test, which I’ve heard is not much fun.

The kind of sucky news that she gave me was that my something or other starting with an H levels were low. I told her I had no idea what that meant, and she said that I was “slightly anemic, which is not uncommon during pregnancy.” She said that I need to start taking an iron supplement, at the opposite time of day from when I take my prenatal vitamins. Which already have iron in them. So according to my mom, I need to start eating prunes, too. ICK. The good thing about the anemia is that it kind of might explain some of my exhaustion, and so once I go on this supplement, maybe it will help with that.

Otherwise, today has been a pretty relaxing day. I went to Target this morning to get some wipes for Alison and of course had to check out the baby sale stuff. I bought a cute (winter) shirt for next year for a whopping 71 cents! A whole shirt for less than a dollar. I love sale shopping. Then went to lunch with my friend Jen, and then we went to the mall for a little while to find something she needed for work. I am hoping that wore Alison out and she will take a long nap now.

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