Category: My Pregnancy Facts

My baby shower was yesterday and I had a wonderful time. There are so many people who made it a great day from Candy planning it with Katki, Rachel taking photos, Katie putting many of our items in her van and making a special trip to get them to us and the guests who attended and people who have gifts though unable to attend. I’ll do a full recap at another time when I have photos back from Rachel, so this will be a preview of detail shots I took with my phone. Using baby’s technical due date of October 30th, I have 8 weeks to go as shown in this sign and sonogram pics, the middentwo of which we used copies of in our maternity shoot with Rachel last month.

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A little over a month ago I started trying to manage Gestational Diabetes through exercise, which my doctor said I was doing more than most pregnant women at already and diet. Though I tried my best to follow all the meal instructions and exercise even more by walking after meals, I couldn’t get the first blood glucose reading of the day, known as the fasting number, lower than 90. After a week Dr. G had my dietitian put me on Insulin. I was lucky in that my insurance covered the pen method, yet each pen was only good for two weeks regardless of how much was used. Still, for reasons that will become clear in a few moments,  each pen had a good deal of Insulin left over, these are my first three pens showing an increased amount of wasted Insulin in each one.

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I’d envisioned wearing a fitted white dress for the second part of my maternity shoot ever since we set a date for it. Our photographer, Rachel, had recommended Matt wear light colors, so he wore white, grey and the Panama hat he wore on our wedding day. For jewelry I wore an aquamarine heart necklace and sea inspired Pandora type charm bracelet, both presents from Matt for our first wedding anniversary.

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Although Matt and I have been San Francisco 49ers fans for a long time, and they have played in Santa Clara, a city very near to us for years, neither of us had been to a 49ers game until last Saturday. We had originally had plans with another friend to be in another town that day and when that friend was no longer available due to an unexpected schedule conflict, we decided it would be fun to go to the game, the last weekend preseason game of the year. As we often do for events, we took Lightrail to get there. It is a good thing we were on an early stop as it filled quickly and may would have been uncomfortable for me to stand in the moving vehicle.

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I’d been keeping my food diary and taking my blood sugars each day: upon waking and an hour after each meal, along with working out. Still as I saw high I numbers I was concerned and was a little nervous to send the Google document link to my Dietician so she could see my recorded values and changes in real time. I was especially nervous as she had mentioned insulin as a possibility for me depending on my numbers.

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Two weeks ago I knew my the anticipated end date of my contract position was near. While at first I had expected it to be extended, I was told with a little less than a week and a half to go due to a decrease in work, my contract and others were not being renewed. So for the first time I experienced interviewing being and looking six months pregnant.

This included screening interviews with recruiters and a hiring manager via FaceTime and Google hangouts. As I typically do, I wore pearls for luck and blue and even though video can wash me out a bit in skin and hair tones, enjoyed the process.

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Today our baby in utero is 27 weeks old. S/he is about 2 pounds and 14 1/2 inches long, the size of one Romaine Lettuce. For comparison I put the lettuce us to a standard writing portfolio. Some sources say this is the start of the third trimester, while others say it begins next week.

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Due to the results of the Glucose Tolerance Test, I was referred to the Nutrition Department for follow up. Originally, I was scheduled for a 3 hour class on Wednesday, however, after a private counseling appointment opened up for yesterday, I took that instead both to get the information quicker and was shorter in duration. I was told I’d get diet advice and a glucose meter.

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Dr. G’s office has several exam rooms for his patients and as some are larger and configured to be more spacious than others they are more practical to do a sonogram in.

To my delight I was put in one of these rooms, so I hoped he’d do one for us. He did run a quick one for us at the end to do what he calls taking an extra peek inside.

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