Well, people, I'm in the 60% of glucose challenge failers who go on and PASS the glucose tolerance test! Yippee! This means that I do not have gestational diabetes. I will have to repeat the challenge around week 24-28, and, if I fail it again, I'll have to do the three-our tolerance test again then too. But my arms will be healed by then.
I have a wonderful phlebotomist. Seriously, she's amazing. But with four pokes in three hours, it's difficult for it not to feel a bit uncomfortable since we were mining nearly the same spot for blood. By the last poke, I finally asked her if as a reward for my hard work of alternating an hour of boredom with a minute of teeth-clenching blood-giving, I could hear my baby's heart before I left the center. Because she's amazing (I did tell you that, right?), and the rest of the staff are equally amazing, they totally accommodated me during an already hopping morning at the birth center and let me have a room and found a midwife to come armed with the doppler. I wanted my mom to hear the heartbeat over the cell phone, but I couldn't reach her, so they even offered to wait as long as I needed to contact her! How incredible is that? I decided to go with plan b and take a video on my camera, which I'll post here as soon as I can (I'm having dead laptop issues at the moment).
The avocado was feeling a bit sneaky and kept scooting away right when she'd find the heartbeat. Jonathan and I figured (s)he was probably sleeping and didn't want to be poked and prodded, like me when I'm sleepy and he wakes me up and I'm super grumpy. We like to make up stories about what the baby is thinking and doing. The heartbeat was around 150 bpm and nice and strong. I'll post the video as soon as I can!
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