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Thursday, February 08, 2007

It's a diet, I swear!

An update from my last appointment:
- Baby's vital signs are normal (heartbeat in 140s)
- I'm anemic (must start bombarding myself with iron)
- Got diabetes? Who knows?

So it turns out that there is still a bit of confusion on whether or not I need to take the next series of tests to see if I have gestational diabetes. Apparently the American Association of Diabetes and the American Association of Obstetricians have recently recommended that the cutoff for normal glucose levels during pregnancy is 30 or below (instead of 39 or below). The lab I went to changed to this number on Jan 10 (just a couple weeks ago) and my result came back 35.

We're told that this recommendation is so new and controversial that no one really knows what to do. My midwife office is meeting with the high risk specialist at Johns Hopkins next Tuesday and they're going to ask them what number they're using and then they are going to let me know if I should take the next series of tests. Yes, this is the one I mentioned last week, where they poke me 4 more times with a needle. Ugh.

Part of me just wants to say "just let me take the damn test, just to be on the safe side" but the other part of me thinks that it's silly because if I had taken the test just a couple weeks earlier, none of this would be an issue.

Anyway, in the mean-time, I'm going to start my 3-day diet so that I'm ready to take the test on Wednesday, if need-be.

Directions:
Eat the food listed each day for 3 days PLUS anything else you desire -

Breakfast: Fruit (1 banana, 1 orange, 1/2 grapefruit, or 1/2 cup juice)

Lunch: Meat, cheese or egg (as desired) plus bread (2 slices) or spaghetti, macaroni, rice or noodles (1 cup). Also dessert (fruit, cake, pie or cookies). Milk.

Dinner: Potato. Vegetable. Bread. Meet. Milk. Dessert.

The diet is going to be rough, let me tell you. I don't know how I'll get through.

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