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May 6, 2011

26 weeks

I am actually 27 weeks, but last week I didn't get around to posting.

According to the doctor's scale I gained 13 pounds so far! Wheh-hew! I'm doing better managing my weight while prego, than when I'm not prego.

I had a bit of a scare two weeks ago when my doctor sent me to the hospital for monitoring because she thought I was dilated and showing signs of pre-term labor. After five hours and many tests it turned out to be a false alarm, but it really threw me for a loop.

A day after that I found out I failed my glucose test (not to what extent, just that I failed.). I was really bummed out thinking it was the beginning of a very difficult phase I would have to endure for my last trimester.

Thinking that I had gestational diabetes really motivated me to cut down on refined carbs even more. I ate super well prior to taking my three hour gluose test. During that week I LOST a pound and a half.

Just today I found out that I passed and don't have diabetes! YAY! I still want to eat well, keeping the carbs low, because I don't want to trigger whatever made me fail my first test. As I mentioned, they never told me what my numbers were for the first test. Maybe I was close to passing, I don't know. I'm happy, I'm healthy, I'm going to continue to eat well, period.

Here are pictures of me at 26 weeks

Posted by hopeful @ 11:07 PM