I “failed” the one-hour glucose test I took last week – not by a lot, but they have a hard cut-off, after which they make you take the three-hour glucose test. This involves drinking twice as much awful fizzy extra-sweet orange soda (I hate orange soda to begin with) and getting blood drawn four times (which I’m really not good at in the first place).
So, tomorrow bright and early (well, maybe 8:00 isn’t really that early) I get to go become a pincushion. I’m going to look like a drug addict by the time I get home. Hopefully, I’ll at least be able to knit for most of the hours I’m sitting there…
Oh, and this topic came up at Sit & Knit tonight: how do women not know they’re pregnant? I’m not talking three or four months here, I’m talking about those stories you hear where someone goes to the emergency room for abdominal pain and comes home with a baby, not knowing they were pregnant in the first place. I mean, you would think the alien kicking inside their belly would be a big clue, wouldn’t you?
Good luck at the doctors’! And I’ve always wondered that about those women too. And the ones who go to the bathroom and have a baby like it’s no biggie. It’s birth!
How can women not know they’re pregnant? It’s called denial. No period for 9 months? Unless their cycles are WAY screwed up, it’s got to be denial.
I’m confused too. Even if they don’t gain any weight, there are still changes – what do they attribute those to?? Even the not-knowing-for-four-months thing blows my mind. There’s a girl on the pregnancy board I’m on (for due in November) who just found out about a month ago. How!?
I had the orange crap too. I was pretty gross (I hate orange pop!) but better than I expected. I didn’t imagine it would be fizzy and was expecting a thick, syrup-y, make-your-eyes-ache sweetness. And I was supposed to drink it within five minutes!? Ugh. Luckily, I passed mine. Good luck with your 3-hour one.
Borderline, eh? I certainly hope all is in your favor, but either way, whatever is going on in your body is being paid attention to and that’s a good thing!
I can’t fathom how one would not know she was pregnant! Even if some of us are more sensitive to the changes than others, the fact remains that our bodies change! I would agree it’s denial*:)
Take care!