{"id":5148,"date":"2012-09-27T21:34:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T04:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2020-08-02T21:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T04:36:04","slug":"gestational-diabetes-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/?p=5148","title":{"rendered":"Gestational Diabetes Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why can&#8217;t the diabetes glucose test involve a really big sugary and yummy candy bar instead of that nasty drink. Yuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 hours of fasting so far and 3 more to go before I&#8217;m done. So hungry!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to be tested earlier than normal since I am high risk for it. We also went straight to the 3 hour test (where I get blood drawn every hour for 3 hours) and skipped the preliminary test since I always test positive. It requires fasting for 12 hours prior so by the time all the testing was done, it had been 18 hours since I&#8217;d eaten. I was SO hungry! And then I got to get a RhoGam shot afterward. (Which I like to blame on Greg since he has O+ blood.) I am pretty tired of getting poked with needles today!<br><br>Oh, and the tech who drew my blood took one look at my birthmark and asked, &#8220;Will this irritate your rashes?&#8221; *sigh*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, the glucose results are in&#8230;all 3 tests were high. To say that I am disappointed is an understatement, even if I am not surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello, finger pricks after every meal and hello strict diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodbye delicious carbs, sweets and all the foods I love so much. I&#8217;ll miss you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meeting with a dietitian and an endocrinologist next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why can&#8217;t the diabetes glucose test involve a really big sugary and yummy candy bar instead of that nasty drink. Yuck. 14 hours of fasting so far and 3 more to go before I&#8217;m done. So hungry!! I had to be tested earlier than normal since I am high risk for it. We also went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-life","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}