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Finally I may have the answer as to why my baby is so big!!!  Got the results back from my 28 week glucose challenge test and it was positive.  I now have to have another glucose tolerance test however this test will take 2 hours to find out whether I have gestational diabetes.

I have done a little bit of researching on the internet on the topic of gestational diabetes and I have a friend that had it during her 2nd pregnancy so I have been given some good advice on what will happen.

Researching on the internet kind of scared me a bit about what can happen if it is left untreated.  The baby will be rather large and may have to be delivered early by caesarian section but may not be mature enough.  Also if it is left untreated could result in pre-eclampsia which could be dangerous for both me and the baby.

I am hoping that the test comes back negative but I think it might possibly be positive.  I am having the test on Saturday and am currently stuffing myself with carbohydrates because I have to have a high carb diet for 3 days before the test.  If the test is positive I will have to monitor my blood glucose level, change my diet and do some exercise, the later probably being a little hard being 7 months pregnant and having a large tummy!!

If properly treated and monitored everything should be ok, it should go away once the baby is born however there is a increased chance of developing type 2 diabetes later on in life but as long as I can eat healthy and do regular exercise I should be ok, providing I have it.

I will just have to wait and see after Saturday and have my fingers and toes crossed.

I am now 30 weeks and 4 days pregnant and I am wishing it is closer to 40 weeks.  This is my second pregnancy and by far the most uncomfortable.  I don’t remember my first pregnancy being so uncomfortable and I certainly wasn’t as big with my first one.

I am huge, I keep getting asked if I am having twins!!!  I asked my doctor about the size of the baby and he said it’s not small (I could have told him that) but reasonable.   I wonder what he considers to be reasonable and reasonable to him might not exactly be reasonable to me, it could be HUGE!!  My son was born 9 pound 3 and I thought that was huge.  I am hoping and praying that this one is not going to be much bigger.

My husband and I are starting to get excited about the impending arrival of baby no. 2.   We are certainly more organised this time around.  Our son who is 2 is starting to understand that he will soon have a little brother or sister and talks to the baby by saying “hello bubby” to my tummy.   He will occasionally lift up his shirt and point to his tummy and say bubby in there and I will have to tell him that bubby is in mummy’s tummy.

The baby is extremely active and often wakes me up at night when it is moving.  It doesn’t like when I lie on my left side so I spend most of the night on my right side.

I often wonder what the baby will look like, will it look like our first baby, will it have the same mannerisms as our first, will it be a boy or a girl.  How will our son react when he first sees the baby.  I only have 9 weeks to wait and see, hopefully the baby decides he wants to come into the world a few days early.

This is my first attempt at writting a blog, so here goes.  I turned 31 on Sunday and for some reason this year I was not excited about having a birthday.  This was the first year I have actually worried about getting older, maybe because I turned 31 just another year closer to turning 40, which sounds scary but I’m sure it’s not.  Turning 30 didn’t worry me, probably because I had a big party and celebrated a little too much.

I remember being a teenager and thinking how old 30 sounded, which is pretty funny because really it’s not that old.

When I was growing up I used to think I would have been married and have children by my early 20’s but at that stage no way was I ready for children.  I had my first child at the age of 28 which for me was a good age and am currently pregnant with our second child.

I am excited about having a second child and have a feeling of our family being complete.  I look forward to watching the children grow up and have their own families etc and in that regard I suppose growing old is not such a big deal.

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