26 and Some Change

So we have made it to 26 weeks (yay!) and time is still steadily passing by; I have now spent two full weeks in the hospital and still manage to keep myself busy. Some days I think "ugh, six more weeks" and then I realize "omg, only 6 more weeks!" I feel like I have nothing prepared (probably because I don't) and June 8th feels like it is just around the corner. I understand there are limitations to how much prep work I can do stuck in a hospital bed, but that doesn't eliminate the desire to feel prepared. So I am letting the rest of my family take care of the baby room and I just keep reorganizing my list of baby gear and adding to my baby boards on pinterest. I actually found a cool website that lets you create a list/registry similar to pinterest (http://babyli.st/rupp) so you don't have to make a list at several different stores/websites.

In other news, I failed my first glucose tolerance test (to check for gestational diabetes) which I never in a million years thought would happen. I have a diet that is pretty out there; no wheat(gluten), no corn, no soy, no legumes, no sugar, limited dairy, no food with crazy ingredients etc., and since I don't eat sugar I was so confident I would pass that I tried to get out the test completely (Orange dyed sugar water is not something I would willingly drink in a normal situation). The first time I tried to take the test they forgot to come and check my blood so I had to repeat it. There was no way I was drinking that much sugar twice in one day so I asked to do it the next day. Once they told me I failed I immediately tried searching online to find out why. Turns out a lot of people following a similar diet had the same result. Woman who ate terribly during their first pregnancy passed the test but with their second child while on a clean diet failed and had no idea why. The general consensus was that when sugar is eliminated from a diet your pancreas isn't use to processing large amounts of glucose anymore. So when you take the test, and ingest 50+ grams of glucose in 5 minutes, it may look like you have gestational diabetes (GD) but really its just something your body isn't used to having in your system. So the past few days I have been trying to eat as many carbs/starches as possible to re-acclimate my body to processing sugars so that I will pass the next test. I'm hoping it will do the trick because otherwise I will be put on a sugar-free diet (repetitive and redundant) and I will have to start checking my blood sugar 4+ times a day for no reason. My doctor was even shocked I failed after I told her about my diet/lifestyle and said I wasn't a usual candidate for GD; she said there were other tests we could try (like testing my blood sugar multiple times a day for a week) but this would be the fastest and most accurate. So for now I just have to suck it up, drink the suspicious orange sugar water and pray I pass.