First, Let's start with our adorable little 3D ultrasound images of Ava from this past Thursday. She was all balled up (literally, had her foot pulled up to her head), and didn't want to give us a good shot of her whole face. We did get some pretty cute side images though. As far as her "check up" part, she is doing great! Her heartbeat was 144bpm. She is in the 47% for size, but her little torso is a bit short (measuring 28 weeks), and her little legs are a bit long (measuring 30 weeks). Her head is right on track, and she is almost 3 pounds (2pounds 14 ounces)!! WOW!
During the ultrasound, she appeared to be asleep for the most part, but she did open her eyes a few times (kinda scary looking in ultrasound..). One of the first things the u/s tech said was that she already has long eyelashes. Yay for Ava! I loved that!
As far as my Glucose Tolerance Test- things did not go so well after my first attempt. I had to go back for another 1 hour test (last Wednesday). I was told to bring Jelly Beans and try eating 18 of those instead of drinking that drink. The nurse was exceptionally unfriendly to me- she even said that my getting physically ill the first time was "mental". I needed to have "mind over matter". I digress- my results were too high after the hour, and they also took my iron level which they said was too low. SO, I left feeling like basically a terrible mom-to-be that I could have 2 things wrong, even thought I feel great (I know development of GD is not something that can be controlled, so I shouldn't have felt bad about that, but I did anyway.).
Well, just not feeling "right" about my hemoglobin being 9.1, I went to another lab (2 days later) to have it check through a cbc. Turns out, my hemoglobin is actually 11.8 (perfectly fine during pregnancy). Then, I had to go back to the doc today to do the 3 hour glucose test, and after only the first hour, my blood sugar was already well below where it needed to be at 3 hours (and I had to eat twice the Jelly Beans this time- so I'm not really buying that my sugar was 147 with only 50g of glucose, but with 100g it was down to 130 in the same amount of time.)
I don't know what happened at the appointment last Wednesday where my levels were so off, but I suspect the nurse had something to do with it. BTW, the glucose machine and iron machine are separate, so if it had been machine error, it would be crazy that it happened on both machines at the same time. I think she either mixed my results with someone else's, lied, or somehow incorrectly put my blood into both machines...
Oh well, I should just be thankful that I do not have an iron problem or gestational diabetes, but in the future, I am going to request a different nurse.
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