28 Weeks

Oops, I accidently put my baby post on my other blog last night, I must have been out of it since it was later than I usually stay up. So I reposted today on Tree of Life. Enjoy!

Today is the start of 28 weeks and I have reached a new milestone, no doctor's appointments this week! Ha! For the past four weeks, I have had to go to the doctor's once a week. Blah, that really messes with the routine. Plus then I have to work late on the other nights, which brings me home late and then I miss my yoga or eliptical time.

However, with my new blood sugar testing I've been getting up in the morning and doing the eliptical. I did an experiment this weekend. I took my blood sugar before I did the eliptical and then after. It actually lowered it by about 10 -12 points. That really confirmed to me that I should be doing some morning workouts to get the blood pumping and the sugars down. This weekend hubby and I went to go see 2012, it was pretty cool, a must see for the big screen. Well, we had movie theatre popcorn. We only go see about two movies a year in the theatre so I didn't feel guilty having some yummy popcorn. However when I got home and tested the blood sugar, it was pretty high at 143. I balanced it with two hours of yard work and a low carb dinner. Blood sugar was back to normal by bedtime.

I've been getting normal numbers, they consider anywhere between 60 - 120 'normal'. At 80 though sometimes I feel really tired and hungry. Mine has only gotten to 80 one time in four days. The other times I'm hovering around 90 - 110. This makes me feel better after all the fear it caused by them creating so much anxiety and telling me I have gestational diabetes. It seems that if I had it full blown, my blood sugar would be testing WAY out of the range of 'normal'. A woman I talked to at work said that her's never went down below 200 and they made her get on the pill. Well, if they say mine is still too high, I'll tell them where to put that pill and find a new practice.

A new week with Thanksgiving coming up. We have our third meeting with our doula Michelle Wednesday night. I really need to get on here to talk about our homework and the birth art project. Mine's almost done, but Dan's been procrastinating.....LOL.

I better get going. It's 10:30 and it's a miracle I am even up at this time. Must have been the chai I had at 7pm, but it was worth it. Sometimes it's nice to be able to actually stay up until a later time instead of falling into bed at 9pm in a deep sleep.

La Sirena and my little tadpole