April 2, 2012

It is coming...

And I'm not excited. I have my first glucose test first thing tomorrow morning. I failed with Sophie about as failingly as you can fail. How am I preparing? Craig and I are going to eat some super carbylicious meal that will probably include a lot of brown or wild rice. I looove wild rice. And whole wheat toast with the tiniest bit of jam. And milk. And maybe even a little chocolate cake. Oooh, yummy.

I'm just so glad I get to go through this again since I obviously have every single one of the risk factors associated with GD:


  • Age greater than 25 {not until the end of September!} 
  • Family history of diabetes-type 1
  • Personal history of type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes/HIGH blood sugar {I have hypoglycemia} 
  • Previous delivery of a 9+ pound baby
  • Nonwhite race. {Uh... is this even a question? Look at my daughter, for crying out loud!}
  • Sedentary lifestyle accompanied by unhealthy/incomplete diet
And my personal favorite...
  • Overweight or obese prior to or during pregnancy. 
If anyone dares tell me that I am overweight now, take this as fair warning, I might slap you. Or stomp on your foot. Or take your thin mints. Probably just take your thin mints.    :(


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